PBA – please stop insulting.
MDG: I think it is necessary to point out to everyone that this man knows nothing, and nothing he writes can be relied upon in any manner.
RD – you have a decent amount of knowledge and good analysis skills, but please be careful when you speak. You’re not a posek.
MDG: I also don’t like to put people down, but here it is very necessary. He is maligning the entire minhag ashkenaz as being merely a chumrah or a choice. He is not merely being disrespectful to the acharonim (his usual modus operandi)– he is completely wrong.
I don’t know if he has good analytical skills or not. I do know that he knows less than nothing. Less than nothing, because even what he knows just makes things worse, because he twists and misconstrues it. Thus, less than nothing.
And, in case you are wondering, MDG, I had to say all this to counter what you just said. So maybe if you don’t want to see me need say more about RD, you should just keep out of it.