Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Code of Conduct

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Does this mean that I'm just furry and not pretty?

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Tom, every time I read one of your posts, and see that avatar of the guy holding up the beer (it ain't you, is it?)... I think you must be waking up in the morning with a little "hair o' the dog".

So yes, I think the furry comment did apply to you.

What's so bad about a moderator? I've had chats with them at other forums and they are pretty good sometimes about joining in and keeping the chat rolling along. Sometimes they seem to be privy to all kinds of cool information. Aren't they supposed to act the same as everyone else and not be some monster robocop.

I don't think we need to change what works just because the occasional joker drops by insults us or our equipment choices. Heck, Alan Lofft does it to me all the time.

Mike, that waking up with a beer in your hand thing sounds like it could catch on. I know it will at my house!

LOL


err, sorry about that stereotypical post...

2x6,
My suggestion for curtailing people from bad mouthing equip. was sort of an off the cuff one. I doubt if anything could change except someone showing up with a moderator title...big deal..whoopie.
I 2nd BigJohns nomination..he could drive them away with courtesy.

About knocking equipment. I realized early in this forum thing that one of the things I wanted to avoid, if at all possible, was making anyone feel badly about any of the equipment they owned. One way to do this is to never say anything negative about any piece of equipment. This, however is a little unrealistic, because if you don't care for, say a given speaker brand and model, people will ask you why you don't.

My solution, and I'm sure I fail to put this into practice at times, is to make MYSELF the subject of the sentence rather than make the equipment the subject. This helps to keep my comments in the "opinion" domain rather than placing them in the "fact" domain.

For example "The VP150 is sibilant and has poor off axis response" can, justifiably raise some hackles, and/or offend those who own one. "I had a problem with the VP150 because I experienced some sibilance, and had an off axis response problem," is a bit more palatable, and allows for the possibility that the problem is a subjective one, and others may have a different experience. Of course adding "YMMV," or "maybe it's just me." helps even more. It's not a perfect solution, but it's a step in the right direction.

>>What's so bad about a moderator? I've had chats with them at other forums and they are pretty good sometimes about joining in and keeping the chat rolling along. Sometimes they seem to be privy to all kinds of cool information. Aren't they supposed to act the same as everyone else and not be some monster robocop.

We already have nice Axiom people who join in and keep the chat rolling along and are privy to all kinds of cool information. I think the question here is whether they should ALSO act as monster robocops when needed

Hi Ajax

I think it's OK to criticize someone's equipment choice, but I also think that before a resident expert does so, he should have at the least listened to the component in question.

The problem with moderators is that it's a slipeery slope - 99.9999999999% of the time a moderator's best move is to do nothing. The danger is that moderator(s) will inject themselves into the kind of disputations which make this site exciting and misuse the moderator's powers.

Hi 2x6,

I certainly didn't mean to imply it wasn't OK to criticize a piece of equipment. I was merely suggesting a courteous, more considerate, less insulting way of doing it. The point can be made without poking a finger in someone else's eye.

And, I completely agree that no one should ever criticize a piece of equipment with which they have no personal experience. I feel it's OK to pass along something you've heard about a unit you've never experienced, as long it's made perfectly clear that it's hearsay.