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Who's running this show?

I’ve hung around Audiogon for several years, have enjoyed it, and have learned alot. I find the forum discussions to be interesting and entertaining.

There were two threads that were recently removed by a "moderator". The first was the one regarding ASR featuring the one and only Amir. It ran for a long time and had well over one thousand posts. Then one day it’s magically gone. The second thread was entitled What will you not buy? and had gone on for a few/several days. It had over three-hundred posts and then earlier today it went away.
This is Audiogon’s site and they can do with it what they wish. If I’m unhappy I’m free to go. I’m okay with that. Here is my interest: who is Audiogon? It seems to be a mystery.  There is absolutely no editorial voice, no communication with the administrators/officers/owners etc. Other forums that I visit have some dialogue between the members and the powers that be. T

To quell this curiosity I did a bit of online searching and found out a few things like the presidents name, location, number of employees, etc. This was all third party information; I found no presence at all from Audiogon. Again it’s their business and none of mine. But curiosity killed the cat and likely this thread will suffer the same fate. Anyone else find this interesting or unusual?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

abnerjack
hifiguy42
190 posts
 

@nonoise +100

 

"mob mentality work around" is a good name for a band.

Our system is so antiquated and afraid of change, as if the Constitution is some kind of holy writ, although it's easy to cherry pick, like most religious texts.

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deep_333
1,434 posts
 

But curiosity killed the cat and likely this thread will suffer the same fate.  Anyone else find this interesting or unusual?

When i was a young nerd, I started a private audio listserv that's older than this forum or anything else i can think of...and i am also on other forums...

Hmmm, to truly understand and flow with the forums (all kinds of specimens you may encounter), ya gotta learn to not care, de-sheldonize a bit and understand the deeper cryptic meaning of this audiophile male vocals reference track. 

 

krelldog
323 posts
 

The original question...who’s running AudioGon ?

Back in the day, it was simple and cheap to post an ad. Audiomart existed, but was basically a ghost town. Then someone got greedy, and completely complicated the process of posting an ad, while charging outlandish fee’s.

Back in the day the forum was filled with old school audiophiles that loved to share their knowledge and wisdom. Now, there are still a handful of great audiophiles who post and chime in, but pails in comparison to back then.

I rarely go through the ads on AudioGon anymore, and have certainly curtailed my participation on the forums.

I don’t know who’s running AudioGon, but in my opinion their doing a horrible job.

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nonoise
10,879 posts
 

@hifiguy42,

I'm so glad you brought up that reference as it's so apt.  

One day they're traditionalists, the next originalists, and on other days, historically aligned with the times of the day. When that doesn't work, they just make stuff up.

What they always overlook is that our founding fathers envisioned us having constitutional conventions every 30 years or so so as to keep up with the changing times as it was viewed as "living law" and not written in stone. They just came from living under England where the law always evolved and had no problems with that.

All the best,
Nonoise

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