Popular Post garrardguy60 Posted March 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 14, 2020 Here's my take on how we arrived at this place, with the subjectivists being unable to take the behavior of the objectivists anymore, and the objectivists left unable to understand that the subjectivists no longer wanted to hear the objectivists' take on, for example, cables, even if those takes were correct [and, in the minds of the objectivists, they were and are.] I believe a big reason for the unwelcome commenting behaviors is that people with technical backgrounds find it literally impossible to relate to the profound scientific ignorance [frequently coupled with innumeracy] of the average person. Engineers and scientists look at the whole world through a technical prism; they know no other way; they don't grok normalcy. I posit that's why the comments from the objectivists became ruder and more disruptive as time went by -- it was the objectivists' version of 'shouting louder' at the subjectivists to try to get them to understand. Now, I must emphasize that I don't mean 'scientific ignorance' in the previous paragraph as a pejorative, but as a statement of fact. And I'm not ''accusing' the subjectivists of being ignorant, I'm just saying that's how an engineer or scientist is looking at the situation. I should also be more specific and eschew 'scientific ignorance' [since most people know Darwin, Einstein, etc] and instead narrow the focus to ignorance of electronics, which is really what the objectivists are shouting into the wind about. Not to belabor the point, but I think Chris made the right decision for his business. Even though it now leaves me out in the cold. I originally came to this site by discovering the MQA Vaporware thread, for which Chris should be given kudos for hosting a key community at a key time for discussion of that lossy, lossy encoding scheme. But today, it's pretty clear to me that if 1,100 [or is it 2,200] people will shell out 650 bucks for the recently reviewed accessory, there are a lot more of them [subjectivists] than us. So I see the business sense. I do wonder if long-term traffic could be impacted if a flat-earth ethos infests some of the more technical threads, or, worse, they become concatenations of verbal 'likes' ['yo, that was a great review,' 'yeah, and so long too; you must've worked really hard.'] Anyway, I will end it here and just add a short close to say that I have tried very hard to not sound critical of this site in any way, because in fact I'm not criticizing it. In rereading this post just now, I see that I've insulted pretty much everybody. I didn't mean to do that, but I guess I have incremented the negative count for the 'o' team. Thanks for listening. [As you also may have guessed, my parens keys are broken; hence the brackets.] pkane2001, daverich4, Ajax and 3 others 4 1 1 Link to comment
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