Interesting read - doesn't mince words about ZD30's

[Cuppa]

And all this scare mongering about this isn't legal and that's not legal, people do that to make themselves look authoritive and thereby acquire a a false sense of power that makes them feel that they can tell people off.

Often a case of shooting the messenger.

I’m not taking a position on what Allan Whiting has written, but I do think you do some folk a disservice by taking the view you have expressed.
Simply telling folk that something is illegal only provides info, readers can make up their own mind about whether they will choose to comply with the law. It is quite common for folk to decide to do mods on the basis of ‘my mate did it’ without ever considering the legality. We need to be able to make fully informed decisions if for no other reason than knowing the level of risk/potential implications. Eg. the possibility of having an insurance claim denied because a vehicle is legally unroadworthy.

Eg.
Not so long back I posted a suggestion that it may be unwise to ‘advertise’ here on the forum that a poster had fitted an EGR blocking plate. The suggestion was derided by a few & subsequently ignored by some, which of course was their prerogative. All I did was suggest that posting that they had done this may not be in their own interests. No attempt to ‘tell people off’ or to ‘look authoritative’ but you could have thought otherwise based upon some responses. It’s not hard to write about it in a manner which doesn’t leave you open to unwanted consequences. Agreed some folk don’t like being ‘told’ anything, but some could also try to recognise that sharing info is different to telling people what to do. I can’t help thinking that sometimes chips on shoulders act as filters to well meant actions.