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

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.

@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

It was not my intention to initiate a political discussion, but this thread has devolved in to one.  We are all frustrated by the current state of affairs.  It doesn't matter who you vote for. We, and much of the world, are on a steep decline.  Neither party or candidate will change that.  We all want pretty much the same thing, but we are seeing the "other side" as the enemy.  Back in the day it was us against them.  Down with "the man".  Power to the people, right on.  Now the man has figured out how to get us to hate one another.  We are effectively disenfranchised.  It doesn't matter who you vote for, things will continue in a downward direction. United we stand, divided we fall.  This thread and the deleted one show that if we are not totally fallen, we are staggering on the shakiest of legs. I feel so sorry for the mess we are leaving the younger generation and I don't know how they are gonna reverse the status quo.  Do you?   

I don't think I would buy boutique power cords. Yet I just found in my closet  Acoustic Zen Tsunami and Signal Cable power cords I forgot I had. So I guess in the past I did buy them.