Pat Farrell;157529 Wrote: > atkinsonrr wrote: > > I cannot say what the answer is, and I am not proposing censoring > > points of view. > > It is really simple. Folks interested in the topic have to make it > a good place to discuss the topic. > > This is true of all open forums, mailing lists, usenet groups, etc. > > > it seems that without intervention, this forum is > > fated to a downward spiral into a lot of heat and very little light. > > Yes, but to quote Pogo: we have met the enemy and he is us. > There is no one to intervene. We have to clean up our act, or > it will die. I've seen it happen many times over the 16 years or > so that I've been playing with usenet, Compuserv, etc. > > The simple fact is that no moderator can exist. It is too much work, > and too subjective for any sane person to volunteer. No one at > SlimDevices is going to spend the time, they all have jobs to do. > > So as Marion Barry said about another topic, get used to it. > Clean up or die. > > Of course, one could argue that expecting some 'moderator' to > straighten > things out is impractical and itself a waste of bandwidth. These days > of > widespread broadband, cable, DSL and FIOS, the concept of wasting > bandwidth may be obsolete, but those old timers think it was and is > a valuable concept. Tragedy of the commons and all that. > > Audiophile are probably more susceptible as a group than many others, > because by definition, audiophiles care about things most people do > not > consider important. Most care passionately, often with a religious > fervor. Which obviously opens a door for wise cracks, jokes, and > insults. > > Some of it may even be justified. We believe that Bose sound systems > sound terrible. We believe that all amplifiers do not sound alike. We > believe that as good as a SqueezeBox sounds, it could sound better. > And we may believe that even the Transporter is not the end of the > line, > so we can think of mods and hacks and a Transporter 2. > > -- altho I personally believe that speaker positioning and room > treatment are much more important than most of the tweaks that > audiophiles obsess over. > > So clean up your act. This means you. Everyone. Period. > > -- > Pat > http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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