Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums?

@calvinj 

I attempt to keep it simple, especially where stepping around adopting attitudes shown from myself, where the forming a evaluation without a direct experience is the intention. I avoid if possible any attitude that can relate to the following:   

  "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

@pindac precisely, it’s like talking to someone you don’t know. Commenting on something you haven’t heard in an environment you never been in then saying there is not a difference. It’s like a blind person telling you that you  look ugly and they have never saw your face. Then being sensitive about their blindness to the point that they will double or triple down on that position because they are insecure about that blindness. Then to top that all off call you a shill and that you only saying it to sell someone smthg. Despite not ever talking or knowing that person in your entire life. It says something when their first interaction is negative and repeatedly argumentative about something that you own and are hearing and smthg that they have never heard. 

Lets not forget the physiologica limitations of being a member of Homo Sapiens.  That always has to be considered.

Cheers

I am not usually upset with any forum activity from a personal perspective, it is what it is.

Forums in general are limited in regular participants, most of the Membership are lookers in and many many are visitors only.

I was a Visitor and Looker In for at least 2 Years before joining this forum, which is the longest I have ever had as a lead in.

I know my delay was very much influenced by some of the Treatments I had seen other members received. I also sort of resigned to the idea, I was not too far from a unsavoury experience once I chose to make posts. I was proved right in that notion.

Hey Ho, I dust myself off and get back on the Horse until the next time it finds a method to throw me.

reasons were s aand acc

Kindness costs me nothing. 

Hearing my Grandma's voice say, "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything" and heeding it costs me nothing.

I value this site, I value it's members and the varied advice and opinions. I've met some really great folks here and we stay in touch. 

Per another group I am a member of, I keep my side of the street clean. And other people's opinions of me are none of my business. 

I truly enjoy and love you all.