@kerrybh - I still haven't gotten over Bill Mazeroski's HR against the Yankees. 
Dealer affiliations and attitudes, assumptions and lack of respectful engagement in audio.
When I started in Audiogon 20 years ago it was a different place. There was pretty civil discussions with fellow audiogoners. There were audio dealers on the site and there were also hobbyists and it wasn’t a big deal. I been on the dealer side/business side the last 7 years. Here is what I find. A lot of us tend to be quickly negative and nasty to those who disagree with us. We don’t have the sharing of knowledge spirit that we used to have. A lot of us want to show others how much smarter than we are than them. In addition to that there seems to be an attitude that if you are a dealer you gotta be shilling instead of just telling the truth. More importantly there seems to be an attitude that audio is the only thing you do. I have a firm in my professional life that I have ran for 25 years. I’m smart enough to know you never know who you are talking to. I just think audiogoners have repeatedly started to step over the line and become HABITUAL LINE STEPPERS and not engage with the necessary level of respect. A lot of us in the hobby just want to meet and have positive audio and music experiences. Not rage debate! WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS EVERYONE?
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@devinplombier - I thought it was Rupert Murdoch and his son who enable FN to be what it is? While it might not be THE source of the problem, I believe that it is a large contributing factor, as it is where a large number of people get most, if not all of their information from; they don't have a lot of competition. I don't remember the 70's as being particularly 'respectful' - I was in my 20's - but everybody has their own experiences.
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About 25 years ago I belonged to an email community of Jefferson Airplane fans; we all loved the same band and were mostly similar in politics and culture, but my goodness the personal savagery that would sometimes go on on there! It's an internet/anonymity thing, in my opinion, though some threads are oases of decorum.... |