Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?

Tvad, one of the things that has always struck me is the difference between Audiogon and AudioAsylum. On AudioAsylum most controversies swiftly get to the next page and out of view. Here as long as anyone posts controversies stay on and on. I also think trolling is more common on AudioAsylum as old topics swiftly go out of sight so you can start another.

Many of the worst posters, but certainly not all, post exclusively on AA and not here, but also some of the most informed post exclusively there also.

Selected tools of the determined huckster:

1) Claim you're misunderstood

2) Claim there's an agenda against you

3) Claim there's an agenda against "new knowledge" or "poorly understood phenomena"

4) Claim outside forces would "rip you off" if given the chance

5) Draw incorrect parallels between what you do and historical examples where the advancement of science was inhibited by entrenched interests

6) Claim that your skeptics "are not ready" for your brand of knowledge, but will one day "see the light"

7) Utilize diversionary tactics and vague language to try and disguise the faulty logic of your false sylogisms, false premises, nonsensical semantics, non-sequitors, and general resort to unproven, "faith-based" assertions

8) Utilize anecdotal testimony to try and disguise your lack of demonstrable evidence

9) Selectively ignore the weight of more rigorous, as well as anecdotal, evidence running counter to your claims

10) Play to your audience's ignorance, desires and fears

11) Hope they don't wise up by "following the money"

12) And when all else fails, resort to rendering your inferences non-disprovable by making your specific claims "secret" (citing #'s 1-6 as reasons why)

audioaril! you gotta be careful mixing Floyd with uncle cidney. I spent way too much time trippin to Animals in the 70's and became a lifelong cynic as a result..but what a way to get there.