I think what O is trying to explain is: stick to the issue and don’t come with anecdotal evidence that has no shaychus to the disscussion. This is a given on any thread but somehow, when the discussion is about levush, people start arguing about OTHER THINGS those wearing the levush are doing. That was not the question! When we discuss shmiras halashon or health issues or whatever and a poster will state, “Well I know many people who are careful about lashon hara but do many other aveiros” or “I know someone with epilepsy who has a very healthy liver”, he’d be ignored, or laughed out of the CR. How is it different when the OP is trying to determine what a black hat stands for, or the difference between a woollen talis koton or a cotton one, or the permissibility of shaitels, and posters regale us with anecdotes of black hatters or chassidim who fail in COMPLETELY DIFFERENT aspects of yiddishkeit?
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