Pro/Forums - I'd rather learn than argue. Care to help?

Some of you may be aware that here and elsewhere, I've gone against the grain somewhat with my approach to conventionally accepted watercooling.
I may even have been offensive in my attitude in some cases. It began to be a habit I'd rather not pick up, so I'd like to defuse it now with a public apology to at least four people.
I came here to do it, because as far as I know, they mostly come here too.

In no particular order, as none of them really deserved it any more than the others,

BillA - you may not read this, but I can appreciate that you are as involved in your chosen work as any of us and I know first hand how easy it is to let stress show in your attitude. I probably resented that too much and I guess I was a little goading.
I shouldn't have let it get to me.

Phaestus - you've done a lot of good work in the field, I may not have insulted you directly but my spreading the idea that lots of angled connectors could still allow a system to work efficiently, although not that bad in itself, didn't give any credit to your findings, true as they are.
I did feel that the system I was using wasn't quite as hampered as a flow-reliant system was by 90° barbed connectors but I didn't make that point as clear as I should have.
In fact, I probably took it for granted that everyone knew this.

Redleader - well, I think we've settled our differences but again, I'd like to smooth this out with a definite apology. I guess you meant well in trying to tell people that not all systems would work efficiently as mine without the same kind of component design approach.

8-Ball - likewise, I hope we're ok but I was definitely out of order on BiT for a while.

I figured that making you guys think a little differently with fresh ideas could maybe provoke a new turn in cooling research but it just makes me look like a prat, at times.
Being controversial doesn't always feel that good.

I guess I justified it to myself in the way I felt at times that the conventional approach was being forced on me and I wanted to fight against it.
It's the reason I mod stuff - to show people that they can dare to be different.
The last thing I'd ever want to be is an asshole. Hopefully I've stopped that now.

Sorry all.