Is It Time For Moderators?

[Ralf11]

You don't always have to scroll back to the 1st post in a thread to read the rules.  On Rajiv's thread, I asked Chris to put the Original Admonition at the top of each page.  It is there, and that, together with Rajiv's moderating and sense of good humor, seems to be working.

[Ralf11]

ad hominem is Latin; not a technical term (EMF could be called a technical term); and should be put in italics (unless the Millennials have finally succeeded in destroying civilization)

 

dunno what Ad Hominen is

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There is a Glossary or Dictionary or Terms thread I started to try and alleviate some of this problem.  One of those 3 in a search should pop it up, but it never took off tho

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because it doesn't exactly connote that

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3 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

Anyway, I am American and I want MORE freedoms. You can have them when I am dead.

 

 

Will we "have to pry your [USB cables] from your cold, dead fingers"?

 

We do know they will be very cold.

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1 hour ago, Teresa said:

 

Yes! Let's be free of Latin!

 

 I believe people use Latin terms and ten dollar words to show off. ...

 

I agree.  greek only - no latin.

 

People use hamiltonians & gradient operators to show off.

 

Seriously, I agree with Allan who framed the issue very well.  This jargon is a short-cut that saves a lot of typing (e.g. EMI); and some concepts cannot even be stated in English.

 

As for big fancy words just to show off - Mark Twain put that down pretty well.

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14 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

The question you need to ask yourself is, do you think a USB cable made to meet the specs and not some fancy thousand dollar marketing scheme, will make enough difference in your system to justify the effort required?

 

but the one in your "cold, dead fingers" will be cryo-treated...

[Ralf11]

The strength of CA is that a number of electronics engineers, manf. consultants, etc., scientists, recording engineers, and industry professionals (real professionals, not PR people) post here.

 

I see much of the problem here as symptomatic of a larger problem in society.  And that is the tendency of liberal arts majors ot not understand science at all.  They were taught to think that way by liberal arts faculty (and by abdication of non-majors teaching by science faculty; together with teaching science as a body of knowledge, not as a methodology used to understand reality, that is objective reality).

 

"Viewpoint diversity" is wonderful for addressing policy issue and political questions, but when you are trying to understand an electronic or acoustic device, NOT all viewpoints are of equal value.

 

Yet, some here fly into a rage when asked how they determined what their declarative sentences are based on.

 

 

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45 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

Not mention those of us in the Professions. 

 

But these discussions are important  because all successful millennials share one trait. They are extremely good at analyzing data. And sorry people the subjective approach can’t easily be analyzed. 

 

Sorry if I skipped you - I thought you were a recording engineer; but recollecting.... accountant for a recording co. ??

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1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I think you confuse the end goals of those liberal arts majors with your own. Those liberal arts majors often don’t care about the science and are just on a fun journey finding out what happens in their audio system when they make a change. If they hear a change, that’s what matters to them. 

 

You and and many others seek empirical evidence for sonic changes etc... 

 

Nothing wrong with either approach. 

 

No, that isn't it at all.  Some people simply want their opinions to be supreme.

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11 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

He wouldn't like DIY Audio or Hydrogen Audio where there is far tighter moderation.

 

please don't attempt to characterize my statements.

[Ralf11]

No, I have never said that.  Nor is it a fact.  You do need to be moderated however.

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BTW, I have nothing against liberal arts colleges or majors.  I've spent a good bit of time advising liberal arts majors, as well as advising science majors of the need for a solid grounding in the liberal arts.  Not to mention a heavy emphasis there myself.

 

My post was about the need for everyone to understand how science works and what it does.

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I think phone posting should be banned

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ees joke, senor

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1 hour ago, fas42 said:

... another type of 'rigid' thinking ...

 

we definitely want pistonic movement of speaker cones

 

 

... for those who have not graduated to electrostatics or ribbons, that is

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18 minutes ago, audiobomber said:

So who was censored?

 

 

dunno but the claim is that Sulla got rid of them

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[Ralf11]

maybe it is time for Muderators

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8 minutes ago, wgscott said:

 

Funny, that.  The post you refer to is one hour old.  The most recent "Yes" vote is four hours old.  So you are just making shit up to suit your agenda.  Again.

 

He is the inventor of SKEW

[Ralf11]

I suggest allowing an AI System to roam the site for a month or two; following that, it can use a generative algorithm to mark posts, or to stochastically block out certain portions of posts.

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No, b/c we'd kill any pro-tRump posts

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16 minutes ago, pkane2001 said:

 

Thankfully, astronomers are a much more mellow bunch than audiophiles... 

 

 

what about astro-physicists?

[Ralf11]

I used to date an astro-physicist and she was cranky in an episodic way - kinda like  rotating pulsar...

[Ralf11]

I have seen moderation invoked on several web sites.  The result is that cliques form around the mods.  Also, many, many members become sycophants to the power that inheres in the moderators.

 

I suggest instead a system of peer review.