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So I'm about to go to lunch, and I check the SET/DIY asylums before I leave. The usual players are about to tie up yet again. I didn't read it too close, and you can imagine why.I check back an hour later, and of course a big chunk of the thread is gone. Nothing too remarkable about that. God knows what happened, if anything.
What gets me is that a great thread about building a 2a3 amp by one of the aforementioned players gets totally deleted during the same time period. I won't speculate whether it was the OP who deleted it, or the Bored, and why. Bottom line; it sucks.
Guess what? The players bench is deep, and they have reserves, both sides are committed, and the little set-to is heating up. Nothing changed you see, except a great thread got deleted.
I don't know why that seems like an AA moment, but it does. I don't consider this a whine, because a worthwhile thread was lost. The Cake album playing isn't helping my mood any.
Edit: I didn't get across clearly that a totally different post on a different forum went AWOL during the same time period. It may have been deleted by the OP for a couple of reasons I can think of. It was just a shame.
Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
Edits: 04/01/15Follow Ups:
Communism is alive and well, in America.
I constantly delete my posts, thinking I am going overboard.
time to keep your mouth shut, because eventually no one will be around left to speak up for you.
history repeating itself.
...due care requires one to assume that a record of EVERY submission to AA is retained on a server somewhere including messages that were "reviewed" but not posted and messages that were posted and then deleted. Edits are available to anyone. Proofread twice, submit once.
I simply proof read my posts to see how they come across before I hit the enter key. Just to keep the conversation civil.
Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
I delete plenty of my threads if no one posts to them. (If the tread is taht boring, I do not want to leave it up)
This only can happen for about 24 hours or so.. Maybe 36 hours. Once a few days have passed no deleting by me possible.
If you add a post to a thread, and no one adds to YOUR post, then that can be deleted by the writer same time frame.
Only the moderators can delete multi-member postings and treads.
Some are a great mystery as to why. Others it it pretty obvious.
Some deletions SHOULD be just kill the bad comment, but that rarely happens..
Usually everyone gets deleted..
Then I don't get it. It was a very long multi poster thread, and there was no acrimony whatsoever. It was totally seperate, and didn't have anything to do with the throw down that was going on in the other thread. It was just a bunch of good information.
I thought that the OP couldn't delete after there were reponses, but I saw no reason why the moderators would delete it. That makes no sense at all.
Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
One poster asked who GM is and I replied with a brief description, which was deleted. I inquired to the mods about the reason and the response was that a bunch of stuff got deleted as part of the thread.
Okay, that explains something about what happened in the Sun 2a3 amp thread.
But it doesn't explain why Garg0yle's BB 2a3 thread was totally deleted. There was no arguing or acrimony. This is the part I don't get.
Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
"I don't consider this a whine, because a worthwhile thread was lost."
Okay, alright.
The moderator for Computer Audio Asylum doesn't even own a computer audio setup so I'm not sure how he judges fact from pure fiction during heated debates. As a result, huge threads with valuable 'facts' get deleted along with blatantly incorrect misinformation. But it's not an easy job being a moderator and they do their best to keep things under control. The threads usually get deleted when personal attacks get out of hand.
On the other hand, most of the posters in the Computer Audio forum do have computer audio setups, and it seems the most heated debates there are over just what is fact and what is fiction. Maybe it's good to have a moderator who doesn't have a dog in the fight?
JE
There have been several cases of factually incorrect information about computers and peripherals being perpetuated as beneficial to computer audio. I'm not talking about 'audiophile' fact, fiction, or myth, but information that is flat out wrong about computers whether audio is involved or not.
I agree with what you are saying here. But what does how computers work have to do with computer audio if you can hear a difference? ;)
JE
> > The moderator for Computer Audio Asylum doesn't even own a computer audio setup... < <
Well, to be fair, one needn't have the gear in order to fairly moderate a given forum. As long as he/she can keep everyone in line and on-topic, their technical acumen probably should not be seen as a required a qualification. IMHO, of course...
-RW-
it's just unimaginable or inconceivable. maybe the rules and policy explain such omissions.
too, you never learn the names of the people as owners like anonymity is the normal rule of course.
roger wang
Obnoxious nerdy engineering types arguing over marginal nonsense. Why even slow down to look at that car wreck?
Wish that passion and energy would be put into discussing high efficient speakers topologies, where a "real" difference can be heard. And where the only new technology since the '30's is how to make stuff smaller and less expensive.
LOL, +1
It's just that I like SET amps as much as I like high efficiency speakers.
Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
....rather than participate in a thread that would just be deleted tomorrow like this one lol
I'm in a Morrison mood if anyone has a link to a decent video.
....that's one of the better recordings. Thanks.
You can't just delete one offending post. You delete every followup to it as well. It's how this twenty year old forum software works.
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