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Original Message
It's the text, stupid
Posted by DAP on November 15, 2017 at 21:43:00:
People should be giving feedback on the text, not the deficiencies, real or imagined, of the authors. If, purely hypothetically, someone were to pen that MQA represented "the birth of a new world", it would be fair comment to characterize that text as nonsensical hyperbole, and give reasons for asserting that. But the invective that gets hurled at authors, Jim Austin comes to mind, makes me cringe. It advances no argument, rather, it distracts from the argument, and causes the gentler souls among us to withdraw from the discussion.
On the internet, bad social behaviour is often attributed to the anonymity where people say things to anonymous others that they would never say face to face. But what I don't get is that high end audio is a small world, and at least some of the sources and targets of the animosity in this forum must know each other from the industry, shows, and the like. It's not necessary, it's not helpful, and it's just bad.
Just focus on the text. After it's written, of course.
Daniel