often 'such threads' get responses which complain about people 'just complaining' and people not posting detailed reports of problems, and such responses usually include some patronising stuff about what the support community is and isn't for.
if you click on my name and then on tommy banana's stuff you can quite easily find a detailed threaad where I have posted my problems with Lion if you are interested. I did mark my OP as not being a question to indicate that I wasn't looking for people to help me trouble shoot but I was letting people know what had been happening to me.
I think there is a range of views as to what a user community forum is for and thankfully currently in the world that diversity is cool because AFAIK we are free to be ourselves and decide for ourselves within certain limits. you sar entitled to let me know what you think too. I personally find it useful to know when , for example , people are having problems with things like OS upgrades and when , for example, people have decided to go back to a previous OS.
I am a professional user and have used Macs for 25 years and NEVER before have I deinstalled a MAc OS upgrade.I personally find the user community very helpful by allowing me to be able to gauge where other users are with a piece of software because it helps me make informed decisions about what I am going to do and how - eg should I upgrade now or wait until this is more stable etc. How best can I uopgrade to minimse risk of disruption.
I have also found it useful on this thread that people have told me they have NVIDIA based Macs and external displays which havent had propblems with Lion.