I'll tell you a short story about my experience at Audiogon and leave it at that. I lurked here for several years but signed up in around 2005 because I had a question about transitioning from Crosby Quads to horns. Fred Crowder was kind enough to respond- he had made the same transition and I got other helpful responses. Since then, I've learned and also shared knowledge where i can.
Perhaps it's a change in the tenor of the place or my personal take on the threads, but there seems to be a signal/noise problem. I can ignore threads of no interest and disregard posts that don't add to my knowledge.
But, to me, the value of the forum is sharing knowledge and experience in a constructive way. That doesn't mean no criticism or disagreement- to the contrary, that's where learning happens. But having lived through the early Internet wars over content removal, ISP responsibility and Net behavior, perhaps I'm just played out on the site.
my regards,
Bill Hart
Perhaps it's a change in the tenor of the place or my personal take on the threads, but there seems to be a signal/noise problem. I can ignore threads of no interest and disregard posts that don't add to my knowledge.
But, to me, the value of the forum is sharing knowledge and experience in a constructive way. That doesn't mean no criticism or disagreement- to the contrary, that's where learning happens. But having lived through the early Internet wars over content removal, ISP responsibility and Net behavior, perhaps I'm just played out on the site.
my regards,
Bill Hart