Tuberoller
Divorced an Orpheus to keep his wife.
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I had been posting to the forums at one of the big record collecting sites for about a year, until today.I was asked in a very unkind manner to get lost.I don't really care but since I don't post to many forums I feel like I don't have many cyber-friends anymore
.Last year I was asked to stop posting at the Buell Motortcycle forums.I just don't know where I fit in.I'm so lost.
Actually I won't miss the snobs at the record site or the anti-social nit-wits at the Buell site.The guys at the record site were always getting upset with me for giving away records or selling them cheap to newbies.Those guys always abused new posters and treated them with great disdain.I would answer questions for them and advise them not to pay big money for records that were artificially overpriced, which always drew critisism from other forum users.These guys constantly gave me **** about my records thinking I didn't actually have as many as I said.Until a local member came by my house to verify the collection I put up with that stuff.Most of these people are not audio enthusiasts and own mediocre systems and don't even play the records they own.There ain't a single record in my collection I won't play and those guys hated me for that.The main forum admin called me a "hack" and said my records were being held hostage by a "fool with no knowledge of records or values".To me,If I pay $5.00 for a record then that record is worth $5.00,I don't care if some book or site says it's worth $500.00.I would find records cheap and sell them cheap or give them away if I had duplicates or no interest in that title.I was accused of " destroying record values" and promoting the destruction of rare,valuable records.That's just stupid.Today was the last straw I guess.I sent one of the forum newbies a pristine first pressing of a rare Motown title and the guys on the site went nuts when the newbie posted a thank-you thread.I was insulted in every way possible by a wide range of members.All my responses were deleted so I was not even able to fire back.Oh well.......
The Buell board was even worse.I take an Anti-loud pipes,Pro-Helmet position and have a deep dislike of the Harley lifestyle.That didn't fly too well with that group.When I attended the Buell homecoming in East Troy,Wisconsin(where Buell motorcycles are manufactured) I got to meet some of the forum members and found them to be jerks of the highest order.I clearly did not fit in, if you know what I mean.Luckily Erik Buell,THE MAN ,hung out with me and the other hangers-on cut me some slack.When I got back home I was greeted by racial insults and other stupid **** on the forum from guys who were not bold enough to say this stuff to my face.I was not shocked but was hurt.
The MARINES forums, military Special Forces forums as well as head-fi are a sanctuary of like minded individuals.Even if we disagree often, we have most of the same interests and treat one another with civility and respect.Sometimes the zealots on the special forces forums go overboard in attempts to weed out fakes and jump on the wrong guys,(it's hard to back-track after calling a guy a lying person).Most of the guys here are really decent and these forums are simply the best moderated on the net.I still post most to the MARINES forums but this place is a close second and I like the company I keep here.
Actually I won't miss the snobs at the record site or the anti-social nit-wits at the Buell site.The guys at the record site were always getting upset with me for giving away records or selling them cheap to newbies.Those guys always abused new posters and treated them with great disdain.I would answer questions for them and advise them not to pay big money for records that were artificially overpriced, which always drew critisism from other forum users.These guys constantly gave me **** about my records thinking I didn't actually have as many as I said.Until a local member came by my house to verify the collection I put up with that stuff.Most of these people are not audio enthusiasts and own mediocre systems and don't even play the records they own.There ain't a single record in my collection I won't play and those guys hated me for that.The main forum admin called me a "hack" and said my records were being held hostage by a "fool with no knowledge of records or values".To me,If I pay $5.00 for a record then that record is worth $5.00,I don't care if some book or site says it's worth $500.00.I would find records cheap and sell them cheap or give them away if I had duplicates or no interest in that title.I was accused of " destroying record values" and promoting the destruction of rare,valuable records.That's just stupid.Today was the last straw I guess.I sent one of the forum newbies a pristine first pressing of a rare Motown title and the guys on the site went nuts when the newbie posted a thank-you thread.I was insulted in every way possible by a wide range of members.All my responses were deleted so I was not even able to fire back.Oh well.......
The Buell board was even worse.I take an Anti-loud pipes,Pro-Helmet position and have a deep dislike of the Harley lifestyle.That didn't fly too well with that group.When I attended the Buell homecoming in East Troy,Wisconsin(where Buell motorcycles are manufactured) I got to meet some of the forum members and found them to be jerks of the highest order.I clearly did not fit in, if you know what I mean.Luckily Erik Buell,THE MAN ,hung out with me and the other hangers-on cut me some slack.When I got back home I was greeted by racial insults and other stupid **** on the forum from guys who were not bold enough to say this stuff to my face.I was not shocked but was hurt.
The MARINES forums, military Special Forces forums as well as head-fi are a sanctuary of like minded individuals.Even if we disagree often, we have most of the same interests and treat one another with civility and respect.Sometimes the zealots on the special forces forums go overboard in attempts to weed out fakes and jump on the wrong guys,(it's hard to back-track after calling a guy a lying person).Most of the guys here are really decent and these forums are simply the best moderated on the net.I still post most to the MARINES forums but this place is a close second and I like the company I keep here.