cliveb wrote: > What I'm advocating is that the best way to deal with them is to > initially post a polite and reasoned explanation why they are wrong. > Other rational folk will read this and understand. Those who don't want > to understand will never come around, so further discourse is pointless. > After that, just ignore the continued rantings of the crazies. They are > in this to get a rise out of their adversaries. If that is not > forthcoming, they will soon get bored and go somewhere else. > > The evidence is before our eyes. Since Arny joined this forum, the > crazies have got more and more vocal, and my hypothesis is that they > have done so precisely because Arny has engaged with them.
Evidence is indeed before our eyes. The forum that is the centerpiece of your argument is a totally unmoderated Usenet forum that is wildly off-topic and out of control 5-10 years after the last time I posted there regularly. I was never the big problem because nothing changed when I left. The crazies are still crazy. The forum is largely wildly off topic. The scorched earth is still getting scorched. Your poorly founded arguments and libelous claims are good examples of exactly what you decry. The argument is also fatally weakened because it ignores the fact that it takes two to tango. This thread is a great example, because it was started by one of the crazies who obviously was well into arguing the topic to death after it already once died a natural death. Piling onto it and vilifying the person he obviously wanted to drive off is a great example of biased and co-dependent behavior. What actually happened is that moderation worked, and deprived of the blood he lusted after, he again put his tail between his legs and slinked off. I suspect that someone advised him of the negative comercial effects of the adverse facts that his trolling brought to light, related to the USB Audio Snake Oil market segment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
