[Vinylanach]

On Sep 13, 2:01�am, "TT" wrote:
Please, please be aware that the rest of the World does NOT care about you
internal politics and **DO** actually visit audio based groups to discuss
audio and NOT US politics. �I know this must come as a complete shock but
can't you take your political diatribe to a political group?

So come on guys, have a heart? �Leave off the OT crap that pollutes this
site or at least go back to Arny bashing as that is at least a little
beneficial to audio in general ;-)

I hear ya, buddy. Personally, I've only joined because I've noticed a
lack of true political discussion, only a mindless regurgitation of
the biased viewpoints of bloggers. We've been discussing politics on
RAO for years, but both ScottW and Bret Ludwig have dropped the level
of discourse considerably. Bret's OT posts always annoyed me because
he always seemed like a spambot to me, providing links to an almost
random assortment of articles without any bridge to actual discussion
within the group. (It's even more amusing when he claims we don't
want to discuss audio when he does introduce the topic, but what he
fails to realize is the large percentage of RAO posters who have him
killfiled or just plain ignore him due to his past posting behaviors.)

For a few years I've given Scott a pass because I've met him several
times in person. And I'm certainly not trying to trash him or attack
him. It's just that I think he's sunk even lower than Bret recently
because he really doesn't bring anything to the discussion. He seldom
introduces OT threads that add any insight to the subject. A majority
of times we have no idea how Scott feels about his own thread until a
half dozen posts have been added. His vague subject lines indicate
that he's putting as little of an effort into having true discussions
here as possible, which shows a certain level of contempt and
disrespect to the others. He just wants to argue and be contrary. He
is a textbook example of a man who is spending too much time arguing
on the Internet, losing his humanity in the process.

I think that OT discussion on RAO is a good thing...in moderation.
Many of us here have known each other for close to a decade or even
more, and we know each other relatively well. It's only natural that
we want to discuss politics or religion on an unmoderated NG. But as
far as your comments about our chauvinism are concerned, I have to
remind that quite a bit of this discussion was initiated by one of
your compatriots (Trevor). So we Americans have to assume that there
is some interest in this election on a more international scale.

This election is historic on so many levels. It is consuming the
attention of the average American. Hang in there, though...it'll all
settle down in a couple of months.

Boon