Popular Post eclectic Posted May 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 2, 2018 10 hours ago, ARQuint said: I wasn't planning on returning to these fetid waters anytime soon, but emcdade's appearance on the forum (which I'm sure will be brief) was a breath of fresh air and I wanted to affirm, for him, that his read of the situation was spot- on. Yes, the choleric response you got—"What are you doing here?"— tells you all you need to know. This thread (and several others) is not typical for Computer Audiophile, a megaphone for an unwelcoming and xenophobic subculture that has found a place to install itself. It began as a useful nidus for the critical consideration of a technology, but an increasingly assaultive tone has metastasized to attack those, like you, who are astounded by the sheer nastiness of many of the postings. Whether the topic is MQA itself or the devolution of the "discussion" into 14-year-old-boy-style insults directed at manufacturers, audio writers, or other consumers—just look over the last week of postings for invective referencing excrement—the goal is to run you out of town. So, emcdade, don't feel you have to endure this for terribly long; your point has registered. If you examine the postings of some of the most aggressive participants, you'll note that they haven't been members of CA for all that long and that the MQA-bashing threads are pretty much all they are interested in. In my view, Chris Connaker has a problem on his hands—again, the tenor of this thread isn't usual for the site as a whole—and if MQA, the business, has some significantly positive commercial news to reveal shortly, as Chris implies, it's only going to get worse. What a disingenuous post Mr Quint. You came to this thread and your arguments were comprehensively defeated. Colloquially, you were "torn a new one". Yes, some of the posters you encountered were robust in the counter arguments but to describe this as "a megaphone for an unwelcoming and xenophobic subculture" is frankly ridiculous. You still haven't grasped the reality of the current situation. Your role as a writer on TAS does not give you any extra kudos, any extra leeway to expect other posters to defer to your opinions. In fact your role makes anything you say less worthy of consideration or value. Your publication is damaged, severely damaged, and your credibility along with that of all of your colleagues has suffered a massive hit. As noted by previous posters here, you have a lot of reflection to undertake. Surely the best way for you to regain any semblance of credibility is to do what you should have done a long time ago. Publish balanced and objective analysis of MQA. Fluffytime, beetlemania, askat1988 and 2 others 5 Link to comment
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