[KoiCop]

Actually, reverse snobbery is a misnomer for most of these folks, since reverse snobbery is a social phenomenon -- not a scientific one.

Reverse snobbery is the phenomenon of looking unfavourably on perceived social elites.

In the post WWII period, the phenomenon of the working or middle class aping the rich, or of deeming them to be 'their social betters', began to give way to the voicing of resentment against social distinctions -- perceived or otherwise.

This led to the adoption of the reversal of deferential attitudes toward what had previously been admired and copied as 'socially superior.'

While Hot Air Hawley is a confirmed class warfare warrior (and a reverse snob of the worst kind), most of the people with plant infested, rock & gravel bottomed, drainless, portapotty watergardens are just plain folk who are both caring and capable of growing in the hobby.

It's the ones who don't know, and who know they don't know and don't care that they don't know, who are the real troglodytes of the hobby. And we've all met a few of them, haven't we?