Why is it so much more civil over here on Agon?

I'm not sure if there are more beginners on AgoN, but a lot of basic questions do get asked here over and over again. And that's OK.

Sometimes my reaction is "Oh, let someone else answer that this time," but I would never make fun of somebody just because they asked a question that I'm sure we all asked once upon a time.

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Threads on both forums are prone to take off on sarcastic tangents now and then. Sometimes they are a lot of fun to read.
The key is to remember that it is not worthwhile to get upset when a jest strikes you wrong. IMHO.
Either that or just don't post topics that could later start out with "You might be a redneck if" or end with "Here's your sign".
Happy Listening!

That is a funny thread! They were being a little cruel but very funny.

I guess I'm aging myself but in the mid to late 1980's on rec.audio.highend, there were a few people that were I think were truly hateful, downright psychotic. If you heard any difference at all between different amps, you caught hell. And the moderators put up with that; in fact one of them was the worst of all.

A'gon sometimes gets a bit cruel if a newbie posts a shallow sounding rave of a new product. Generally it's remarkably civil and quite a relief, IMHO. But I'd say the same of audioasylum.

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