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Originally Posted by htwaits 
In my opinion, the best reason for not posting settings from a professional calibration is that it could damage the calibrator's reputation.
The same folks who ask for settings to be posted would be the first to list all the faults that they see when those settings are used on their displays. There's a lot of help that's provided in these threads that's misunderstood, and sometimes misapplied.
For example, the settings that D-Nice posted for the models that he worked on for that purpose have, in some cases, not looked that great to some people. No matter how often D-Nice has pointed out that his settings are a starting point, people still make critical comments. I don't want to be responsible for someone else's work being misrepresented.
In the time I've been at AVS, this same discussion has come up many times. Not many people have posted the view that I have, and the calibrators, with good reason, tend to stay away from this topic.
In my opinion, the best reason for not posting settings from a professional calibration is that it could damage the calibrator's reputation.
The same folks who ask for settings to be posted would be the first to list all the faults that they see when those settings are used on their displays. There's a lot of help that's provided in these threads that's misunderstood, and sometimes misapplied.
For example, the settings that D-Nice posted for the models that he worked on for that purpose have, in some cases, not looked that great to some people. No matter how often D-Nice has pointed out that his settings are a starting point, people still make critical comments. I don't want to be responsible for someone else's work being misrepresented.
In the time I've been at AVS, this same discussion has come up many times. Not many people have posted the view that I have, and the calibrators, with good reason, tend to stay away from this topic.
This is a really good point- I'd never thought of it that way. But you're absolutely right. Many owners don't seem to get that panel variance makes transferring settings a hit-and-miss exercise. And of course, the ones dissatisfied with borrowed settings would likely identify them- negatively- with the original calibrator.
I wonder what that was all about.... related to the "discussion" about posting calibrator settings, apparently. But I've never heard of anybody posting under "multiple IDs." Weird. 
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Quite f***ing true.
