daveman2.....This thread wouldn’t have anything to do with that dumpster fire of a “discussion” about rap from last weekend, would it?
I’m on several other forums focused on audio and non-audio hobbies and they each do a much much much better job keeping politics out of the discussion than Audiogon does.
Why do they do that?
Because absolutely nothing at all is added to a discussion of, say, turntables, home brew beer, vintage radio restoration, or mycology by having people flex their political views. Yeah, people disagree all the time and get in each other’s faces about what thing is better than another thing but no one is ramming a political flag down someone else’s throat.
How do they do that?
Community rules, a user agreement, and active moderators.
On Audiogon you’d get
“But muh rights and freedoms! You can’t tell me what to do or say!”
To which one might reasonably reply
“Well, you’re on a privately owned and operated site with a user agreement that you agreed to but can’t seem to abide by. Stop being a jerk.”
And then someone would say
One of the issues is that Audiogon has very broad definition of what kind of content can be moderated. Also, some posters seem to be exempt from moderation.
Perhaps they’re actually moderators who are also interested in promoting their political agendas, saving the audiophile world from “cultural Marxism” one expensive component at a time.
I’m on several other forums focused on audio and non-audio hobbies and they each do a much much much better job keeping politics out of the discussion than Audiogon does.
Why do they do that?
Because absolutely nothing at all is added to a discussion of, say, turntables, home brew beer, vintage radio restoration, or mycology by having people flex their political views. Yeah, people disagree all the time and get in each other’s faces about what thing is better than another thing but no one is ramming a political flag down someone else’s throat.
How do they do that?
Community rules, a user agreement, and active moderators.
On Audiogon you’d get
“But muh rights and freedoms! You can’t tell me what to do or say!”
To which one might reasonably reply
“Well, you’re on a privately owned and operated site with a user agreement that you agreed to but can’t seem to abide by. Stop being a jerk.”
And then someone would say
If that happens, we get turned into a burning dumpster of political correctness that is flying down the highway at juggernaut speed, killing all in it’s correctness path. A cloaked vehicle to do harm via. A communofacist agenda rockin’ machine that no one can touch, for ill or for better. Mostly ill.
One of the issues is that Audiogon has very broad definition of what kind of content can be moderated. Also, some posters seem to be exempt from moderation.
Perhaps they’re actually moderators who are also interested in promoting their political agendas, saving the audiophile world from “cultural Marxism” one expensive component at a time.