For goodness sakes guys, it is an informal internet forum, settle down.
I think it goes without saying that things that are stated are just a persons point of view unless qualified as fact with accompanying evidence. This might be a science based forum but it isn’t a formal lecture series or some such where one should have to be absolutely clear to define their position on a subject before beginning their presentation.
I like that in principle. At a personal level, I tend to reject empty claims without a need to contest them publicly. But I do feel that your approach in this section, while a solution of peace and simplicity, will lean strongly toward letting anybody claim anything, and too many people believing it. Someone still has to voice a doubt or simply reject the statement for most people to even consider that it might be BS. Because in practice, when reading a random thread on a random subject, most people do tend to trust the overly self-confident, the famous, or even better, the guy who says what they already believe. Evidence is a tiny aspect of what convinces people. It sucks, but humans are like that.
I would really like to have a community educated in thinking your way.
@bigshot, you ask a lot from others but very little from yourself when it comes to statements' rigor, protocols, evidence and so on. You wouldn't stand someone treating you like you do so many others.
You routinely mock people, and I allow you to get away with it most of the time (worst that happens to you is a deleted post here and there, usually way too late so nobody even notices). Be it you or gregorio, you often go too far, disrespect and bully people too much. You certainly have a different way to go at it, but the result is really the same for the guy under fire. Head-fi isn't the place for that.
We end up having some fairly serious discussion (or just me ranting in PM) nearly once a year, when pretty much everybody is fed up with your behavior, and I'm between a rock and hard place, trying to stop you guys from getting banned, because we're pretty much old friends, while also having to admit that most of the complaints are legit. I keep trying to reinvent the wheel so that something changes that doesn't involve a ban.
When it's some random 'know it all' who never even googled the topic he claims to know for a fact, I confess to thinking "good riddance" when he gives up posting under the weight of your punches. But more and more, you're also pushing away people who would have interesting things to share. People telling me they give up on this subforum because of either one of you, or both, isn't a one-off occurrence.
This section is basically an echo chamber for both of you, instead of whatever else it could be. When someone criticizes the forum, it's because they don't make the distinction between it and you. It's been like this for a while, and no matter how much I value you, the loss starts to feel like maybe you're not worth it all. I don't know how else to say it.
I'm guilty of not enforcing the TOS. That's so incredibly obvious to anybody coming here. At the same time, The very reason I ended up modo was my desire to fight bans and stop losing people I valued who had gone too far one time too many(so often being triggered by some moron who couldn't care about anything but himself). This situation is a testimony to my failure. It validates what Curra and his mighty ban hammer was doing before me. I hate to think that's true, but we're heading toward yet another time when the question of keeping you here is brought up. Gregorio got saved by a hair last time. But here we are again, with displeased people, and me failing to refute their arguments.
Sorry for derailing OP's thread, depending on how this goes and who gets involved, I guess those posts will go away or be moved to another thread. What I wish to remind everybody of, is how a forum is only an expression of the people posting in it. By not participating because you don't like what is posted, you miss the opportunity to make this forum whatever you want it to be, and everybody else misses the opportunity to read something else.
