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Audiogon Hall of Fame? And the nominees are...

Several threads of late have been devoted to providing words of kindness and appreciation to fellow members and the AudiogoN staff for making the shared experience here so wonderful and unique. Another set of threads has lamented the paucity of high quality reviews (or, more to the point, the influx of mediocre reviews) resulting from the giveaway sweepstakes currently in progress. It occurs to me that it may be more appropriate to reward those who have made the greatest contribution to the forums over these past years!

I nominate the following 5 individuals to the A'gon Hall of Fame:

Cornfedboy
Albertporter
Sean
Twl
Garfish

I've limited myself to 5 and have simply named those who came to mind most quickly. I haven't entered into any transactions with these gentlemen, but have learned so much from their posts. There are dozens more... tell me, who are they?

My only rule is nothing negative!
wmcmanus
joman
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I enjoy this website for the knowlege, gear, and anonimity. Placing some kind of heiarchy on the members will only deter from the purpose. I agree with Ben. Also Bob_bundus should be mentioned as a contributor. I think a heartfelt thank you would be the highest reward. Thanks you gentlemen.
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wmcmanus OP
171 posts
 
Well said, Ben (and others). I didn't have a popularity contest in mind and certainly didn't contemplate any sort of complicated formula with a "winner" who receives a cash prize and a charitable donation as suggested by Unsound. My intent was to more to allow fellow members to give thanks where thanks is due, but this occurs naturally on a daily basis. I'm still relatively new to high-end audio, and living in the Caribbean, the A'gon forum has become a great resource for me. Incidentally, many of the posters on this thread would have made my honorable mention list.
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marakanetz
5,473 posts
 
Why don't we folks give such opportunity to judge Audiogon on who is the best?

We're all humans communicating between each other here and everyone of us has our own opinion that will realy flod this thread in dissorganized way with our own judgements why one is better than the other. Let's say we're all going to anonimosely vote and write any member except yourself(please only one!!!) to the created somehow if possible vote box by Audiogon. I've seen the tremendows job done by its developers within the fantastically short time frame and I believe that this interesting proposition should take place for us on that behalf.

I hope that Audiogon will not miss this opportunity and whoever is with me on that issue please support and request!
garfish
1,840 posts
 
Thanks Wm; while I consider it an honor to be included with the A'Gon members you mentioned in your thread, on balance I've got to agree with Ben's well stated post too. When I come across a thread or post that I think is exceptional, I like to comment on it in the thread, and there are many many Audiogon members that have made many many excellent posts/threads.

When Audiogon experimented with "voting" last year, it was pretty much a dismal failure and was thankfully abandoned.

My hat's off to all Audiogon members and management that make this a special site. Cheers. Craig
unsound
7,365 posts
 
Nrchy, I'm somewhat embarrassed to tell you that I'm not all that clever and I was being sincere. I'm glad you enjoyed the laugh though, seems we could use more laughter around here lateley.
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