Please Read and express your feelings and opinions....


I noticed  that lately or maybe for the last five yrs, there is so much arguments,name calling, attacking cables , speakers , components makers and more, more of disagreement with members, even Audio dealers are being attack here...Very few know how to apologize when they are wrong.What can we do as Audiogon members to improve our communication to each other? How to give the informations, recommendation to members who need it? This is without involving Audiogon, any opinion or ideas ,  For me this is fun and place to learn in audio...thank you all
jayctoy
I recently asked about a dedicated audio room chair and received several good suggestions. 
No one gave any attitude about searching and several “threads” came up as already
asked questions for me to peruse through. 

Chris
Society seems coarser today than ten years ago. Endless argument parades as universal entertainment, without the disciplines of logic, rhetoric and civility undergirding it. Unfortunately, many people think they are smarter than others, funnier than others, more important than others etc. I often describe it as people believing everything around them (life) is a movie and they are life's essential star; every person around them is of lesser importance. These folks treat others as unessential annoyances or worse. In reality, an equally valuable person resides on the other end of every forum message, text, call, email.... Kindness counts. It can be contagious...and it is in need of more adherents. BTW A'gon has some of the nicest people I've dealt with on the internet.
Peace
Al     
Well, I tend to think everyone has there right to an opinion, but they are just that someone's opinion. I have been parts of many different forums for many different types of things and it's always been that way, someone has an opinion, someone doesn't agree, and Walla conflict. This tends to happen here with cables topic quite often, I just say this. I can't hear with your ears and you can't hear with mine. So what sounds great to you might not sound good to me, we all have audible differences and it's better to just respect others opinions cause they have a rite to them just like I do. 
Expressing my feelings re. "Walla" as in:

someone doesn’t agree, and Walla conflict.

That hurts. It really does.

Otherwise, love the post.
Indeed the forum has become coarse but most often on arguments about science vs empirical evidence (ie-fuses, interconnects) or on certain threads where a dealer hijacks the exchange about a product to damn it with faint praise, talk about his vast experience and submit, as a matter of fact, the "best" product for the OP would not be the one discussed but one which-- after years of careful study and comparison--he thinks is better and just happens to sell. 
It would be nice if the rules here prevented promotional dealer conduct. The exception of course, would be if the thread is about a product and the dealer, as one with experience with the product, can provide an answer to the OP which may incidentally involve praise for the product. Non-promotional conduct by a dealer would be permitted-(e.g. a dealer weighs in on a thread to provide information responsive to the OP that is  not promotional in nature).
  That being said, there is thankfully only one dealer on the forum who wastes our time with the above type of prohibited self promotion. In a way, that is a tribute to the hundreds of other dealers around the country who participate here.