Maybe someone can enlighten me.

lol! just checked to see when was the last time I had a post removed, It was 8/6/24, for the following:

”lmao! When was the last time you got laid?”

Now that’s some serious street cred my friends.

@mdalton 

You can’t have your cake and eat it too, right?

Oh, I disagree with that! 😂

Meanwhile, your post prompted me to look up Audiogon forum rules. Here they are in their entirety:

Guidelines

Goals of these discussions

Discuss the audiophile hobby

Share experiences with other audiophiles.

Share news about the high-end audio industry.

The Company: Audiogon, Inc.

 

The Service: Audiogon Discussion Forum

 

When you create your own personalized account, you may be able to provide "User Content". You are solely responsible for the User Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Service. You agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your User Content. The Company, however, reserves the right to remove any User Content from the Service at its discretion.

 

All submissions, whether they be questions or answers, are subject to moderation. Any designated moderator will have to the right to remove content that he or she deems inaaproprate.

 

Prohibited content:

You will not submit content that is copyrighted or subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy, publicity, trade secret, etc., unless you are the owner of such rights or have the appropriate permission from their rightful owner to specifically submit such content.

You will not post information that is malicious, false or inaccurate.

You will not post content that is sexually expicit.

You will not post content that is abusive or defames another member of The Service.

See also

https://www.audiogon.com/users/terms

http://support.audiogon.com/customer/portal/articles/237780-terms-of-use

I was very surprised to see that race, politics, or religion are not even mentioned. The concern about sexually explicit content is curious, given the largely older and 99.9% male audience, but I guess you’re never too careful.

In any event, you’re right and I stand corrected. The Audiogon forum rules are not only inadequate but, in this particular case, inconsistent with the enforcement actions being taken.

"All submissions, whether they be questions or answers, are subject to moderation. Any designated moderator will have to the right to remove content that he or she deems inappropriate."

That’s all you need to know.

Their house, their backyard, their ball.

@newton_john 

Have you never been mellow?

@abnerjack 

I can’t imagine that this forum makes a lot of money.  Perhaps the guests at a dinner party analogy, think of this place as a barely solvent convenience store, prone to attracting trouble making teenagers that scare away cash spending customers.  The management of the store has the right to hustle potential trouble makers along, because it’s their shop.

   If you need to discuss politics with every breath you take, or twitch of your typing fingers, there are are approximately 18 billion other sites where you can spend all day arguing with total strangers .  If you want to discuss audio issues, your choices are limited