I hear ya MM. I think, without knowing his intent, that some should have given him the benefit of the doubt.

He doesn't say "hey, tell me any knives OTHER THAN SCRAP YARD that are good".
He said that he wants a scrapyard-like knife but can't afford a SY so can we advise him on another brand.

Read my response - not rude, yet not offering any other brand on this forum. Had he asked the same question on Busse forum no one would of thought twice because they would have pointed him here or to the swamp (He doesn't know that SY's are the cheapest of the Busse-kin knives). How would he know these rules or that asking that question is forbidden here? Anyway, I hear ya.