Geeze. In my last post to you, I'd pointed out something I found confusing in your reply and politely asked for clarification.
And this is the response?.....
It's gear. It's audio equipment and in the end, it's technology. It's NOT scientology.
Of course. But if you'd paid attention you wouldn't raise such strawmen. You couldn't if you tried show an actual parallel between what I've written
and scientology. Unless you chose to utterly misrepresent what I've written.
Matt Hopper keeps volunteering to lead the pack, I hope he knows the value of what's he doing cause, from what I read around this forum, more than one member would consider his account on trolling to be overdrawn.
It's unfortunate that, in on-line discourse, charging someone with being a "troll" has become the lazy last resort of some people frustrated by disagreement.
Before slinging around that charge, please look up the definition of an Internet Troll. Hint: It's not "
Someone That Disagrees With Me."
It appears you are ignoring all the posts I have made in support of the approach at ASR, all the ways in which we clearly agree, to seize upon some area where you
think I've stepped out of bounds. And then: "TROLL!" Now, while you suggest there are a few other members equally rigid and reactive in their assessment, fortunately that isn't the general trend.
If my posts in fact had the character of being a troll it suggests they would be greeted as antithetical to most forum members and seen as purposely antagonistic, stirring up mostly ill-will. People wouldn't "like" that, would they?
Fortunately we actually have some metrics that speak to that claim. For instance:
Forum Member: Killdozer
Messages: 885
Likes: 844
Forum Member: MattHooper
Messages: 3,264
Likes: 5,282
Which member above has more posts "liked" by other ASR members?
Which member above has
a higher ratio of posts "liked" by ASR forum members?
Which metric suggests posts...over a long period of time!...to be most consonant with ASR forum members?
It seems most people here recognize when someone is mostly in agreement, and trying to engage honestly in some conversations around the edges of disagreement, vs those few who react by calling people "Trolls."
The gear has to perform to the best of its abilities and THEN you tweak it/tune it however the hell you want. Your liking doesn't have to come preinstalled. If it does, you're being overcharged.
That is a perfectly reasonable approach.
But it is also your opinion, not some iron law by which all others, even all other ASR members, have to conform.
If you can just come to peace with the fact that people can agree on the relevance of science and measurements, yet these individuals can still differ somewhat in what they want out of their audio gear, you won't reach for claims like "troll" and it will be better for discourse. And, maybe, for your blood pressure