Honestly, I feel that this is a very childish response to my attempts to point out why it is a generally a bad idea to purchase speakers from a no-name-brand company online without being able to listen to them first. For some reason, apoppin seems to be bitterly opposed to this concept and is finding any way that he can to silence my opinion. Two people have already explicitly stated that they agree with my remarks -- only apoppin seems to have a problem with them.
Here is a summary of APOPPIN's posts:
07/07/2002 10:46 AM Apoppin insists that I am a thread crapper because I point out that buying speakers without listening to them first is a bad idea; no contribution to thread at all
07/07/2002 11:06 AM Apoppin re-insists that I am a thread crapper and plays "AT cop"; again, no contribution to thread at all
07/07/2002 12:14 PM Apoppin plays AT cop again by explaining the forum rules to everyone; again, no contirbution to thread at all
07/07/2002 12:20 PM Ironically, Apoppin says "this is so becoming off topic"
07/09/2002 6:18 PM Apoppin talks about mods, and tries to convince people who point out problems with the deal that they are only bumping it to the top; again, no useful contribution to the thread was made
07/09/2002 8:10 PM Apoppin tells me that I'm not an audiophile and that I clearly do not have a clue. Personally, I don't care, but I honestly think that if someone said that to Apoppin, he might find it...well..."rude."
07/09/2002 9:09 PM Apoppin defends remarks he made earlier that were challenged by merlocka
07/09/2002 9:40 PM Apoppin posts in AT HD to tell everyone that he has posted here. If he was really concerned about my posts, he would have ONLY posted here -- it is clear that he wanted to shoot me down in the AT HD forum, which explains why he felt compelled to post there.
As you can see, Apoppin has consumed AT bandwidth and has made no contribution to the thread whatsoever. I was merely doing the forum a favor, by reminding ppl that it is the general consensus that buying speakers without listening to them is a BAD idea.
According to the forum rules, negative comments are allowed "if there is any other reason to warn others about an offer or link."
In contrast to what Apoppin claims, people agree with my opinions. For example:
Slugbait posted: "OK, with this I would have to agree" [in response to my posts]
Blahblah99 posted: "Damn there's a lot of arguing over this thread... but I gotta agree with ValsalvaYourHeartOut!"
Furthermore, the whole issue of "thread-crapping" and "politeness" started a heated sub-discussion following apoppin's complaints that people weren't being polite enough to his standards...this sub-discussion just diluted the thread further and brought the thread way off-topic. If he hadn't tried to play "Wannabe cop," this wouldn't have happened...if you read the sub-discussion regarding how sensitive people are, and how people think the term "thread crapping" is overused/misused, this is what i'm talking about.
Thus, to summarize, I have pointed out that:
a) I was pointing out why it is dangerous to purchase speakers without hearing them first.
b) How almost ALL of Apoppin's posts were either trying to play "wannabe mod" or were waaayyy off-topic
c) People agreed with my responses to this thread
d) Apoppin started an off-topic subdiscussion in this thread regarding his standards of politeness and whined about comments that he thought were "thread crapping" -- based on reading the thread, people seemed to be divided on this issue (some agree, some disagree), but the point is it brought the thread off-topic, and I don't think it was up to Apoppin to play "AT cop."
e) Negative comments ARE allowed on AT HD "if there is any other reason to warn others about an offer or link"...I"m concerned that perhaps Apoppin did not read the forum rules to the very bottom, because he never seemed to quote this line in ANY of his AT wannabe-mod posts.
Valsalva
