i'm with jim and bbloom. AudigoN has become little more than a politically correct, dumbed-down chat room for crybabies and those too stupid to know how stupid their queries are. the syops of AudiogoN keep telling us how there are so many new participants and posters since they've instituted their inane, beauty pageant rating system. so what? where's the beef in all these new posts? how many more threads must we endure that begin with the same "what's the difference between..." questions? i say we each give ALL such BS posters, as well as those ultracrepidarian jackanapes like lev335, -2,-2 ratings. that's one way, born of anarchist ideology, to discourage all of AudiogoN's vaunted "new posters" and "thread authors" from participating in these discussions and making them as tasteless as pablum. cmon' AudiogoN, you promised me two weeks ago that we would see a new, improved ratings syatem "soon." where the hell is it? -kelly