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Polite Rules for discussing Audio related things

The polite rules for discussing audio:
Folks post three types of messages:      
Questions ,about audio function, method, what to buy..  
Answers to other folks questions..  
And blogging. I bought this, I did this, here is my experience                        
Allow others to say and describe what they experience and hear.   Allow then to offer reasons without arguing.   If it is a blog, stop telling them what to do! They don't want you arguing, just wanted to say I did this.
Offer POSITIVE responses. If you disagree with them, do so in a polite and friendly way.        
Offer alternatives without aggressive language.And above all, stop tit for tat aggression. Turn the other cheek dudes, turn the other cheek.
What do you think would help create a friendly happy place to discuss audio?
elizabeth
n80
1,227 posts
 
celander said:

Sometimes incivility can dissociate one’s bias from one’s belief, thereby liberating one to adopt a different belief. But civility rarely achieves this.

I don't understand that.

inna said:

If someone needs a moderator he/she should not say we. I have no need for this, as far as I know. In other words, who is anyone to define what I need or have to ?

But if I think you do need a moderator then from the standpoint of an anarchist who are you to say that I am wrong? And if you have no basis for declaring that I am wrong for trying to control you then what recourse do you have? Violence? And do you think in your wildest dreams you are prepared to face unbridled, self interested violence?

If an anarchist says we all decide our own course then as a fellow anarchist I might decide my course is to subject you and everyone like you. Will you tell me I am wrong for truly embracing anarchy?
inna
5,245 posts
 
I will not. I might say that you appear to be unprepared yet to "truly embracing" it. You have no real contact with these things so far. You are just talking your talk.
glupson
1,794 posts
 
As interesting as some of these discussions are, it is hard to explain how they ended up on an audio-hobby forum. I do not know if it would qualify as anarchy and what Plato would have said about it, but it is enlightening in some way.

"You are just talking your talk."
This brings back memories of another recent thread. What else could a person do with a talk than talk it?
inna
5,245 posts
 
I think, n80 understood what I meant.
As for seemingly irrelevant or at best barely relevant discussions here, well, I would say that discussion itself and interactions matter and have intrinsic values. Concrete particular subject is less important, in my view.

n80
1,227 posts
 
inna said:

  I will not. I might say that you appear to be unprepared yet to "truly embracing" it. You have no real contact with these things so far. You are just talking your talk.

How quickly it devolves into insults. I thought you were above that. I think you even said so in this discussion.

No, I am not "unprepared yet" to embrace it but I am fully prepared to reject the actual true implications of anarchy. 

I get the impression that present day anarchists exist, in the U.S. anyway, only because they know that the authority they hate will allow them to embrace an ideology they could not live with if that very same authority did not guarantee their freedom, safety and economic stability.
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