[Audio-Me]

jude is it wrong for me to avoid threads that are about stuff I've read countless times before? One thread with the same context right on top of the other over and over. That is not cool. I respect expressive opinions, some peoples more than others. Am I guilty of posting pointless things? Yes, but aren't we all? Do not single me out on this one.

What I say on IRC is different, first of all I am chatting with a group of buddies, and secondly I am not out there starting three different threads stating the same thing for the world to know. I don't post for attention, I post to share thoughts. The threads kelly and I are referring to, we see them as having no intention of discussing anything, they just want to get it out there that they got something and want to be greeted with a friendly congrats and what not. This isn't a playground... Show and tell? Um, tell us something to think about.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

No need to take things so seriously jude, we can just do this:

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Originally posted by kelly Does anyone else find it a little sick that the most common threads on HeadFi tend to go something like: Thread Starter: I just got ___new_product___ !! Responder 1: Congrats! Responder 2: Welcome to Team _____ ! Responder 3; Excellent choice. Congrats! I wonder sometimes if our entire sense of "community" is based on needing social reward for our material purchases.

Yes

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I'm a little freaked out by it actually. Am I alone in this?

Yes

 

[Joe Bloggs]

Actually look at it the other way--

Remember when I was going on and on about whether or not to buy the HD580? Then some time later I came out and started discussing how the HD580 sounded to me--then some forum regular went like, 'so you finally got your HD580? Why don't I get to know earlier?

'

Seems to me that there are people that like to read about other members getting new stuff, as well as people that like to talk about getting new stuff... it's like sharing your life with family

 

[kelly]

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Originally posted by jude Exactly. That's my point. That it happens in both places, and you do it too. And I don't think there's anything wrong with it at all. Where the heck else is someone going to express their enthusiasm about buying or trying new audio gear if not in places like Head-Fi, Audio Asylum or IRC?

It wasn't the enthusaism that I found strange. Obviously I have a bit of enthusiasm. I have over 1300 posts in a headroom forum.

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What's so different about that? If your point is that it typically catalyzes further discussion, you're absolutely right. As someone else pointed out in this thread, that's the point.

I disagree that this is the point of the threads I refer to. "I got my V6s today!" rarely launches a discussion with any greater depth than "Great! Welcome to HeadFi!" I'm NOT making a value judgment (though some other people in this thread are)--but this IS what I'm interested in discussing. As I said, if I don't want to read them, I simply won't read them. I do read them, I just don't completely understand where people are coming from and that is the point of this post.

My theory is that threads I speak of are NOT to facilitate discussion, inform or request information. My theory is that they are to seek approval and to acquire group membership. The observation that accompanies this is that: we (as a group) have placed a financial and matieral price on the group membership at HeadFi (whether we meant to or not). I think it's worthy of discussion. I'm sorry some of you feel otherwise--please feel free to move on to another thread.

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If you ask me (which you didn't), I think in your opening post in this thread, you're just trying to be a hard-ass.

Pot: My kettle, what a lovely shade of black you are.

You are free to not participate in this thread if you find it disagreeable. Or, maybe you could start a thread about "how posts by kelly are just kelly being a hard-ass and debate the sociological value and impact or lack thereof of them."

 

[jude]

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Originally posted by Audio&Me ....first of all I am chatting with a group of buddies....

In many ways, that's what many people here on the forums are doing too.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

In my experience, kelly, even the new-toy threads usually have more content than 'just got my ***, w00t!' ? They usually at least include some first impressions--and if he's going like 'w00t', those are probably positive first impressions. This has information value, as a tentative recommendation for the product. Of course, if the product is rather mainstream, e.g. Senn 580/600, etys, KSC35, etc. it's understandable that regulars like you and me may get a little bored--but newbies will find these posts useful...

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In many ways, that's what many people here on the forums are doing too.

I second that

 

[jude]

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Originally posted by kelly Pot: My kettle, what a lovely shade of black you are. You are free to not participate in this thread if you find it disagreeable. Or, maybe you could start a thread about "how posts by kelly are just kelly being a hard-ass and debate the sociological value and impact or lack thereof of them."

I choose to participate in this thread because I do disagree with you. If I started another thread as per your suggestion, well then....I'd just be being a hard-ass.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

Whoa, temper temper everybody

It seems that there is a cultural divide between IRC head-fi users and non-IRC users. People that use IRC chat about trivial things and then come back to the forum expecting to find only useful information, while non-IRC users use the forum for both purposes--serious information sharing and (relatively) mindless babbling. I see nothing wrong with that though.

Then I also noticed that many of the more incendiary characters here on Head-Fi (

) also populate IRC... perhaps they were long-time users of IRC even before #headphones, and had brought their IRC cussing habits into the forum...

Really now... I feel ignored

 

[Clubkill]

Subject: My headache just arrived!

Hi all,

I read this thread (another is a series of threads that use a useless thread to piss and moan about useless threads), and it gave me a headache! My first impression was that it was useless, but after I read it for awhile I realized that it was juvenile.

Respondent 1: Congrats

Respondent 2: Welcome to team STOP POSTING ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE POST!

 

[Clubkill]

Damn, my 100th post was a thread crapper.

:Congrats

 

[Flasken]

To those who think plain sharing of happy feelings at head-fi after a purchase is wrong or pointless/whatever:

......hmm, i forgot what to say because the above sentence just seems so absolutely rediculess!! Forget everything else said in this thread and ask yourself:
What is wrong/pointless/whatever about sharing happy feelings at head-fi after a purchase???

Remember - information is nice but a community is IMHO also about feelings. And so is head-fi. INCLUDING small chats about the happiness of having made a nice purchase, birthday wishes and so on.

 

[daycart1]

I'm with Setmenu's posts to this thread. LOL.

 

[millerdog]

I'm just a new guy here.
I've done the congrats thing.
Some people just want justification in spending their hard earned dollars on a set of freakin headphones.
They may or may not want to hear it from people in this forum who have spent hundreds if not thousands on their music systems.
I say congrats because someone has stepped up to the plate and perhaps bought the most expensive headphones he or she could afford.
Headphones! For what I spent on cans so far, I could have upgraded my home freakin speakers!
If a person with a budget of $50 comes here and ends up buying cans for $100 bucks cause of what we said(past and present posts), then they deserve congrats!
Yeah Yeah Yeah....you guys all heard it before.
I haven't. I am still enthusiastic about this hobby.
Yes, there is repetition in threads. Yes, new users should use the search function.
What I freakin hate is new users with new threads, fifty looks and no replies. I don't know ****, but I try to offer something. Weren't you a greenpea once?
just my thoughts,
md

 

[Joe Bloggs]

Amen to that md!

 

[kerelybonto]

At least announcing a purchase has something to do with headphones. Because critiquing users' posting habits definitely doesn't.

kerelybonto