I agree and actually was surprised a couple days (weeks?) ago when I read people complaining there was a bias against people who had robotic surgery, I never noticed that, granted there are way too many divisions here, but I personally never have seen nasty threads between robotic or tradional surgery like there is for so many other threads about choices. IF anyone feels that way I'm sorry to hear it.
IMO Even that thread where someone complained about the bias, I read and reread the posts and didn't see what they were complaining about, yes there was some discussion about tried and true vs newer without a long track record, but that is true with any of the 'newer" things wether valves, surgeries or even meds, some people feel more comfortable staying with the choice that has a long track record and others rather have the newer things in hopes they turn out even better for them.
Granted when someone post a question about robotics, the threads are usually pretty slow without many replies, but that is mainly because not as many people have experience with Robotic (or even min invasive) so they don't have much to offer. I don't know if maybe people who chose to have robotic surgery are getting nasty PMs or something, but as for the forum I just don't see the bias..especially one that is so bad it was called pathetic.