Really, you weren’t referring to me specifically? I was the one who “dropped the link to head-fi” that you highlighted as the impetus for your objection in the first place—the part where you said that it “doesn’t look good if we abuse the product designers personally”. I think I reasonably took that as an implication that I was sullying the optics of ASR.
I don’t know who the “we” was you were referring to exactly. However, I usually take that royal “we” as a pronoun of condescension one uses when scolding someone else’s allegedly inappropriate behavior.
The problem is that I didn’t abuse him, nor did I get personal—I challenged his own inappropriate behavior, that included wrongly disparaging and delegitimizing this site. So without belaboring this issue excessively, I’d just like to ask you to consider whom you were defending with you post, and why. Your post’s tone seemed to be in defense of this site’s reputation, but your methods seemed to have served the opposite. Perhaps you’re not aware that Watts has taken every opportunity to downright trash the integrity of this site in front of massive audiences, and he’s in a position of considerable power and influence. Just sayin’…
PS Full disclosure, I did call Watts a crook and a charlatan—not on Head-Fi, on here. And it was in no way abuse—it was a reaction to his abuse…of my wallet.