Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums?

@waytoomuchstuff yes lol. A long time ago I went to listen to a well put together super system. I came home and looked at my set up like it betrayed me.  It looked back at me and said WHATEVER! YOU BETTER TURN ME ON AND SIT DOWN SOMEWHERE! 

Compared to much of the world, especially the social media and political universes, I find this forum an oasis of civility. And yes, better than it was when certain now-exiled provocateurs were running at large.

Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums?

yes indeed, but this is hardly limited to internet forums -- the problem is quite universal

100%

This forum is filled with people who do not - and have not - owned the equipment filling it with toxicity.

Those of us who buy things - and want feedback from others who own similar equipment - are at a loss to find fellow users in all the bullshit of "power conditioners dont work"  "cables are a waste of money" bullshit form those who have never owned these things.

It really sucks. Would love to engage with fellow McIntosh and Nordost users ... without all the BS.

Still looking for a forum like that ... Hifi Rose has a good user forum that is about supporting each other.

If posters knew they would be known by name and later meet the people they exchange with online, they would be more polite. Internet fora allow anonymity and the illusion of no consequences. For people of questionable character and poor impulse control, online life is their license to behave badly without consequence. For them, the categorical imperative has no meaning, nor does the notion of action and consequence.