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Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics

I'm increasingly disturbed by the number of threads that have been ruined lately by non-OP's who have been here decades with thousands of posts and yet seem obsessed with taking discussions off-topic. While I'm not dismissing the notion that everything matters in hifi (including friendly chit-chat), it seems that this off topic blather vastly overwhelm thread topics that clearly would have more influence to hifi audio sound.     

If some unsuspecting newbie were to stumble onto this forum they would likely come away thinking that unrelenting banter is the most important element towards obtaining wonderful hifi sound. This is unfortunate. For example, well all of them! Just watch, I bet they will do it to this one too! Even thought they already have one tailor made for echo chamber blather, they will not be able to help themselves and pollute this one as well. Just watch! 

Is it just me?
128x128millercarbon
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millercarbon OP
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Rent free.
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oregonpapa
4,867 posts
 
I kind of look at this forum as a local watering hole where like-minded people meet. The occasional off-topic conversations don't bother me much. What bothers me is when someone can't handle his beer, gets belligerent, and then starts with personal attacks. 
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three_easy_payments
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What bothers me is when someone can’t handle his beer, gets belligerent, and then starts with personal attacks.

Like feeling so threatened they they start a thread with the same title as mine purely as an attempt to belittle my input and message? Yes, I get it and couldn’t agree more @oregonpapa

Hopefully mods will step in and stop this immature nonsense.
sns
3,003 posts
 
Off topic posts here replicate the all too common general off topic meandering of most human conversation. At least with social media you don't get the interruption and finishing of your own sentences with someone else's thoughts.
jetter
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I'm increasingly disturbed
Others here also have noticed that you are growing, in your own words, "increasingly disturbed" at a number of well meaning audiophiles who have been on Audiogon often for several decades. Most of us have never had a hint of confilict or had a post deleted in our entire time on this forum, until recently.

Often people feeling disturbed speak to someone who can help, rather than report to the mods. The answer may not lie in a new cable, speaker platform, or fuse.
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