Why discussions generate into personal affronts...

Some men just want to watch the world burn

It's the nature of subjective disagreements. They are by nature different and inaccurate because humans are different and inaccurate - and passionate about subjective beliefs that are important to them. The solution is to discover objective answers. There's no ownership of objective data. It just is what it is. It narrows the disagreements to methods of determining objectivity. However, there are not always ways to find objective answers because one of the variables in the subject is humans. That's why the stock market can never be conquered. You have to look for probabilities instead. But where the human is scattered all throughout the stock market, making it impossible to have great predictability, in audio the human is only at the beginning and end of the chain. All other components in between can be measured objectively. And since one beginning source can be used for comparison, the probability of what a human will hear can be predicted with much greater probability. As has been done at Harman.

So generally, the more subjective the forum, the more "human" it is.

One of the funniest happened on "Soundstage" 22 years ago. It was between Myles Astor and another insider.

It got to the point where Myles said:

"I can bench 400 lbs,......!"
To this day, I regret not printing the discussion. 

It seems that fascinations and speculations and theories and observations drive people nuts.  Since observing and theorizing and speculating and being fascinated about things is the way I live, usually when I launch a thread it turns bad in a jiffy.

I have a website with almost seven hundred observations and speculations.  I ain't no amateur here.


Hey, look:  The OP was curious about the behavior and even this thread had some nastiness in it.

And it's funny that this should come up anyway.  My first contemplation today before coming here was of three people I know that are real belligerent.  I'll say something that is patently obvious, like my washing machine is broken, and they'll pick a fight about it.  They having absolutely no knowledge of my washing machine whatsoever.  They are obviously mentally ill but somehow seem to function in society.

Here's another observation:  The less a person knows, the more vehement he is.  And I'm sure that that observation is going to ignite some vehement responses.  But being information-proof is a self-reinforcing condition.