Polite Rules for discussing Audio related things

Response in print, in forums, is generally a case of motivation to do so, which is by nature --- based in emotions.

Furor and response are tightly linked.

Where emotions are motivation, reason... is in shadow. Where reason is a second and third rate victim dragged behind the prime bodily survival motivators of fear and desire.

Note to self: All reason is passed through primary emotional/survival filters before it is noted as conscious thought in a human mind. It is how we are wired, from the hindbrain on up. All communication between (and in) self and other is filtered by this primary system.

Further note to self: The human brain is not designed to think. It is designed to solve a problem in immediacy and then go back to rest mode immediately. The brain can think, and reason, yes, but it is energetically expensive, and nature conserves.

Humans are designed to think, solve in immediacy and then retreat to ’no thought’, until immediacy calls again. Note that immediacy is provided by prime motivators of fear and desire.

This is neurology and psychology class 101 stuff....and the stats show that 97% of us don’t think. We just react --and solve in immediacy.

If that is not sobering, I don’t know what is.

So, responses are by nature emotional, and the review of the proffered response is emotional... and....no one is thinking.

Yeah, that means you, dear reader. The 100% of you who think you’re an exception......you don’t get a 3% pass card. Another psych class 101 fact point.

You’ll all (including me) self filter yourself to being perfect. Which is absolutely untrue by any measure.

Well, it should not be like Users249.

That is, if anyone even remembers what that means....

There is a problem with ’anything goes as that is what works for me, I’ve got a thick skin, and I give as good as I get"..

The problem is that the vast number of people who contribute and might contribute to a forum or thread are not of that nature. They are notably more gentle and easy going.

And so, if allowing for nasty behaviour and telling folks to toughen up, we get to a few forum members, with their thick skins - being the only forum denizens.

Everyone else has left as the median of the curve was left out.

So, what one needs to do, in order to run a forum.. a successful forum... is enforce civility --- and cut out, like a cancer, those who won’t be civilized and want free reign to denigrate, be sarcastic, and brow beat at will.

Social and cultural norms that work in a functional society, kinda thing.

FYI, ’users249’ was a pre-internet talk group from the old days, where ’anything goes’, no rules in what could be said..about anything or anyone. The very embodiment of shocking, brutal, extreme....and limited to such who could handle it.