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Wylie Williams wrote:
The discussion was about my attitude when I write posts. I try as best
I can to write posts phrased to be free of condescension and sneering, on
general principles. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I haven't come across
many statements I wish to contradict. I hope that when I have made a
contrary statement I have done so in an honest but diplomatic way.

One needs to understand that a passioned argument against what a
person says is not a passioned attack on who a person is An
unfortunate number of people are either incapable or unwilling
to differentiate between the two.

If I were far more knowledgeable I would have more opportunity to
contradict, as I would see the incorrectness in more posts. I hope that in
such circumstances I could maintain an appropriately polite tone to my
replies.

Not being knowledgeable is not a bad thing. We all suffer from
it to varying dgrees across varying disciplines.

Not being knowledgable and holding forth on topics about which
one is not knowledgeable is a bad thing, and occurs all to
frequently in the high-end audio realm. I would merely point to
a number of articles published, for example, in the Absolute
Sound, of a supposed technical nature that are so absurdly wrong
technically that they would make for superb practical jokes were
it not for the fact that the authors, who knew absolutely
nothing that the expounded at length on, were serious.

Not being knowledgeable, and declaring that one does not like
being told they are wrong, is basically an admission that the
person has no interest in becoming knowledgeable in the topic.

My hope is that this last is not true of anyone. Alas, I have
seen it written in these very fora, on more than one occasion.

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