https://www.head-fi.org/threads/bes...-reference-list.805930/page-729#post-14258151
Errr...TRN60
I was banned from the KZ and <$100 Chifi threads for indefinitely last week for recommending an earphone by a forbidden brand to another Head-Fier. This was reported to an admin. Because I only alluded to that brand it was clear to the admin that I had known about the fact that that brand had been banned from Head-Fi.
What, you find this silly? Well, the whole discovery thread was shut down and cleaned up for the same reason a few days ago but to my knowledge nobody else was banned. At least one cannot claim Head-Fi is consistent.
I remember my later student days in the early 1990s when I was pissed as a rat and helped myself to a lasagne that was meant to be catered to a very mediocre band playing the university. I was banned from the club for three weeks for that. When it came to the "interrogation" the day after, I could not keep my face straight because the whole issue was so absurdly minute. Rest assured, I was a very happy and peaceful drunk after
16 drafts at the time and the bouncers didn't have to apply much force to guide me out - though they did.
What I learnt then is if you overdo it with rules and regulations, you lose authority and credibility as people go underground and therefore behind your back. In the end, policing will be impossible. As an unwanted side effect, that banned company has received a lot of publicity by the admins.
The present case can be compared to a guy forbidding his friends to talk to his estranged wife.
Also interesting what this does to the Head-Fi community: it polarizes them. One group couldn'
t care less about something they find unreasonable while
others panic and denounce their peers in order to avoid the thread to be shut down.
You will fully understand all this for the case you were active before 1990.
The only solution is to eliminate the
corpus delicti by finding a way to re-socialize that offensive brand. That's way better than alienating your own clientele.
