New Thread on Steve Hoffman website that says Audiogon sucks

I would appreciate the opportunity to answer ghasley's post about my comments on the Steve Hoffman Forum.  As members we all just get extremely tired of seeing our posts deleted or his Gorts coming in and causing trouble.  

You make my point, and that point is WHY do people get so angry that someone else has a different opinion, and I agree with you assessment 500%, why do they?   This is a free country and all opinions should be considered UNLESS the member is foul, ugly, vulgar, or does not address things professionally, however this is not the case with Hoffman's forum.  He is a far left activist and with his forum he deletes opinions and members that are not far left in their thinking.  You are incorrect to say I am bashing the Hoffman Forum, I speak the truth, he has stifled free speech for years with his forum, and I'm not speaking of audio reviews, I'm speaking of OFF SUBJECT conversations that often take on a political left or right lean, and he always sends his Gorts into the mix to purge any and all moderate viewpoints, and we members just get a bit fed up with his actions and his attitude to NOT tolerate any views on a multitude of subjects where there are clearly two points of view.  No kidding ghasley, we just get tired of it, it needs to stop, call it ranting raving, whatever, we are just tired of it.

For years I have seen members purged from the rolls, not for posting obscene or indecent posts but rather just taking a moderate, conservative approach, an I feel compelled to offer some resistance to Hoffman's need to stifle free speech, which is what he has done for many years, so I am the crusader interested in seeing this change after so many years of heavy censorship from him and this Jerry the Gort, who absolutely does not need to be a moderator, I can assure you.

@constitutionalist

A few observations.

Why do you want to hang out on a forum that is as you describe as "far-left" if you don’t lean that way? You don’t have to fix everyone, that is too heavy a burden for anyone. They don’t have to want to be fixed either.

You don’t have the right to free speech on a private forum. Period.

Finally, my sister has a cat. (Which is equally as relevant as you coming to Audiogon to complain about Hoffman). Why do you care? What difference does it make?

@constitutionalist,

"For years I have seen members purged from the rolls, not for posting obscene or indecent posts but rather just taking a moderate, conservative approach, an I feel compelled to offer some resistance to Hoffman’s need to stifle free speech, which is what he has done for many years, so I am the crusader interested in seeing this change after so many years of heavy censorship from him and this Jerry the Gort, who absolutely does not need to be a moderator, I can assure you."


I can’t say that I’ve noticed this, but then I tend to dip in there once in a while or if I’m looking for the sound quality lowdown on a particular album.

In any case perhaps we should cut the host some slack from time to time?

You must admit there are some incredibly knowledgeable posters on that site.

And yes Steve Hoffman is not infallible. I was quite surprised to find that when I side by side compared Steve’s mastering of Nat King Cole Story collection to the box set put out by the Bear Family that I preferred the latter.

Shocking, but true!

I've met Steve Hoffman, and therefore perhaps understand the reason for his view and opinion of some posters on his forum. Anyone who has spoken to Steve---or more to the point, listened to him talk---knows to what I am inferring.  

Could you expand on that a bit.  You have met Steve Hoffman.  As you know the complaint is that he simply does not allow free speech.  It has been said, it's a private web site and he is well within his rights to stop free speech, but he takes lots of donations, donations from people that do have opposing views on various subjects, yet he deletes their posts and bans them from his site.  

What could be right about that?