Put that in your pipe(s) and smoke it


I'll say it again: let's seek out the gem's and leave the rest, folks. Ignore the trolls, or be selective of the actual content they bring up - should you choose to reply; it may even hold an unexpected, worthwhile observation or two on a subject that could put into perspective our endeavors here.

More importantly, if we want this forum to allow for free speech and a degree of resilience, some around here should reconsider their liberal urge to hit the 'report' button, because that's the thing that truly annoys me and what I'd call the real trolls around here: the one's feeling offended on grounds I imagine to be so relative to their own agenda, indeed petty in nature, that their reporting a post or thread is likely to see no further inquiry by the admins and is therefore, simply by virtue of being a report alone, put into effect as an actual deletion.

We should be able to hold a conversation without someone feeling taken aback over what is, in the bigger scheme of things, insignificant issues. If not it's an ongoing, sad tendency to shut the mouths of those we don't agree with, or for some other flimsy reason don't like. 
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The seemingly instantaneous manner in which posts are deleted after complaints suggests to my sensibilities that little consideration is made before such knee jerk reactions.
I find it curious that one might have access to the data that might suggest I’m the only with such a claim.
I’m pretty sure a post has to violate the identified posting rules before a post is deleted by mods due to it being reported.

That’s very fair. Just follow Audiogon’s rules and all will be fine in the end. It’s that simple.

If an ego gets bruised on occasion along the way so be it.  It's just a hobby.

Well it is a judgement call in an imperfect world like many things.  It’s Audiogon’s house so they get to decide.
As has been stated previously, sometimes the judgments have been reversed, and sometimes the judgements have not been justified. It may be their house, but I don’t think it’s too much to ask that they play by their own house rules.