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?
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.... |
@kerrybh - I still haven't gotten over Bill Mazeroski's HR against the Yankees. |
Ha! I have a DVD of that game which I still watch-greatest 7th game ever. That series condemned me to a lifetime of Pirates fandom only because my older brother was an obnoxious Yanks fan. The Pirates organization proves that decades of experience doesn't automatically equal expertise. Brutal management. |
@larsman Terry should never have thrown that 1-0 fastball. It was exactly what meserowski was expecting knowing that Terry didn’t want to fall behind 2-0 on an offspeed pitch. And in a sign of the times back then, little boy who found the home run ball in the park next to the field was allowed to keep it and then lost it in a neighborhood baseball game later on. |
