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Are manufacturers having discussions removed from Audiogon if they turn negative?

I have mostly been taking part of this forum occasionally, and from a distance if you will.  I have to admit I don't really know the kind of things that can go on, disputes or disagreements that can occur.  I have occasionally done searches in this forum using the search function to only come upon a thread that has been removed, oddly enough.

I have seen some discussions, and taken part in some others that become somewhat of a debate on certain brands, and they have become critical in some instances.  Usually fans of the brand in question rush to the defence, and from what I've seen, a healthy discourse occurs, with back and forth and occasional posts removed.  I'm thinking of smaller internet direct manufacturers such as your Emotivas, Schiit Audio, Ascend Acoustics and the like.

What I'm wondering is, have such companies had negative discussions stopped or removed?  Has anyone been part of similar discussions in which moderators suddenly step in and either lock or completely remove a discussion?

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elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
I can add that individual post in certain ’commercially driven’ ie to sell that product threads, particularly the black goo and the magic bits of paper threads are being controlled by the folks who offer the gizmos for sale. Also the green thread is clearly getting any posts the greeny guy does not like removed. So there IS some sort of added control by a few ’behind the scenes’. The posts removed for obscenities etc by the audiogon staff leave behind the empty spacer, the posts otherwise removed leave no trace. I know quite a number of posts in the magic paper and greeny guys threads were vanished.. The vanished post do seem to be more off target of thread, than not... So??
I wonder what the rules are for gaining control of you threads like that?
dill
815 posts
 
It would be nice if the person that posted the original $12,000 Tekton, failure to ship thread, posted here when or if he ever received the speakers.
cleeds
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elizabeth
I can add that individual post in certain ’commercially driven’ ie to sell that product threads, particularly the black goo and the magic bits of paper threads are being controlled by the folks who offer the gizmos for sale.
In practice, I think it's the moderators that control the threads. But they will delete off-topic posts, or deliberately argumentative posts, if alerted.
The posts removed for obscenities etc by the audiogon staff leave behind the empty spacer, the posts otherwise removed leave no trace.
Are you sure? I've never noticed that.
cleeds
2,065 posts
 
dill
It would be nice if the person that posted the original $12,000 Tekton, failure to ship thread, posted here when or if he ever received the speakers.
Given that the user had just joined Audiogon before creating that thread, that his few posts were confined to that thread, and that he then deleted his own thread (according to the moderators), it's not likely we'll be hearing from him again. This forum gets these "drive by" users every so often and their claims are often suspect, as in this instance.
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
Never noticed?? Plenty of threads, particularly the 'why power cords, or interconnect' type threads have a lot of small blank spaces between remaining posts where the obscenities and personal insult type posts have been removed. Curiously, if the removed post was the last post.. you can still see that persons name listed s last poster to the thread in your "Threads you have posted to' list. 
The off topic are not generally removed.. unless complained about AND the moderator agrees. There are endless off topic, particularly by Geoff, and enough by myself to know they are left alone in most typical threads. But sometimes NOT in the manufacturer threads I mentioned.. The black goo. magic paper and Green threads. So the Tekton thread may or may not fit into that pattern? Since the whole thread vanished, I would guess it was done by the op of the thread.
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