# Hobbyist insistence on tailored products? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbyist-insistence-on-tailored-products/921153 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [September 21, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbyist-insistence-on-tailored-products/921153 "2020-09-21T16:20:18Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 132
### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy) #### Post date: [October 8, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbyist-insistence-on-tailored-products/921153/132 "2020-10-08T18:46:48Z")
Having read the whole thread (yaay me!) IMO @RivkahChaya’s whole treatise on control is about 80% of it. With the most recent comments of hers and @bump’s about the fallacy of the excluded middle between known-good and unknown-must-be-terrible cover another 15%. The last 5% IMO is the personalities who do this. They are, as one memorable thread had it: Tedious Asbergery Wankers. For folks of that mindset, there’s an _obsessive_ need to be exact, an _obsessive_ need to do it The One Right Way, etc. And an _obsessive_ need to share their amazing (in their own mind) expertise. Which hobby they choose to ~~enthuse~~ obsess about is semi-random. But with extra bonus points for a choice with a big helping of extreme arcana. See also this gem from 2009: > [@What hobbies tend to have the most obsessive enthusiasts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hobbies-tend-to-have-the-most-obsessive-enthusiasts/513066/): > > Every hobby is going to have it’s hard core adherents who spend all their time obsessing over the little details of what they collect and/or engage in. But, from my experience Civil War re-enactors, by and large, seem as a group to be especially serious about their hobby, obsessing over the details on their insignia, whether or not their camping conditions are true to what was experienced in the 1860s, using the right type of powder for their guns. Almost every re-enactor I’ve met is like this,… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbyist-insistence-on-tailored-products/921153)._