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Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests

Why is it that so many well-intentioned threads devolve into wordsmithing contests? Is it necessary to argue about the meaning of posts when the language thereof is reasonably clear on its face?
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blindjim
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why are you here?

I want to complain!

sorry, this is Getting hit on the Head lessons. Complaining is next door.
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stargazer3
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Most disagreements on HiFi forums are like the OK Corral gunfight of egos.  The posters pretend to argue their particular subject or cause but in reality they are imposing their 'superior' ego over the other and others who read the thread are like spectators in the Colleseum.
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sleepwalker65
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 It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. - Winston Churchill. 
bsmg
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a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma is why Churchill drank a fifth every day.....and it wasn't Beethoven's
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geoffkait
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stargazer372 posts02-27-2019 3:02amMost disagreements on HiFi forums are like the OK Corral gunfight of egos. The posters pretend to argue their particular subject or cause but in reality they are imposing their 'superior' ego over the other and others who read the thread are like spectators in the Colleseum.

>>>>>>I believe the word is Colosseum. 
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