Please note that no one from Cakewalk has been negative toward anyone in this thread. The only contribution from Cakewalk was making statements that were transparent, and have in fact turned out to be true.
As it says in my sig "The opinions expressed in this post were written by Craig Anderton in his personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cakewalk Inc. or Gibson Brands Inc."
I acknowledge that VV's comments really got to me much more than they should have. I have been advocating improvements to staff view with SONAR on behalf of the community. I know how hard the people at Cakewalk work and how sincere they are about taking care of user requests. What I saw, and of course it can be debated whether my assessment was correct or not, was Cakewalk's integrity being attacked by someone who was making statements presented as fact that subsequent experience has shown were not true.
I also made the mistake of taking words literally, like "switched," instead of seeking clarification whether that's what the person actually meant. Furthermore, I was going through a very difficult period in my life (still am) that involved yet another death in my immediate family. There have been too many of those lately, and my cousin's suicide hit me particularly hard. As a result I have less patience than ever with people who attack others, and I never had a lot of patience in the first place. The world is a painful place and when I see good people being dissed for reasons that I believe are unjustified, it makes me go ballistic. The irony is that then I become negative as well.
I take responsibility for my actions and they should not reflect on the Cakewalk staff. I still believe Cakewalk was unfairly attacked, however there's no doubt I should have handled my reaction to that a lot better. I admit that I'm a "momma bear" regarding people I care about, and that's not always a good thing.