I'm shutting this down. I'm not sure how many of you watched the WAN Show this week; however, i strongly urge you guys to. If only for this part:
If you don't want to watch it, then i will summarise:
- Parts of the forum (particularly Audio Sub-forum) are straying away from the core values of the site (i've highlighted the most important ones).
It is threads like this which only go to extend this perception of some members as being elitist, condescending and down right rude. If you don't like someone's opinion, fine - don't agree with them; but by no means start a flame war on who is better, or who knows more. This forum was set up for everyone to have a pleasant experience and at the moment, in this sub-forum at least, this is not being met. The environment here is highly hostile and is not welcoming at all. If someone gets something wrong, don't go out of your way to point it out to boost your own ego; perhaps offer an alternative. This isn't survival of the fittest, it's a forum made for people to come and ask questions and incite mature and well argued discussion, not to get a torrent of abuse thrown at them because of their views, what they bought, or what they do.