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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    It isn't dead.......it's just the way they want it to be. Low maintenance, quiet, slowly becoming a non issue so that when the traffic numbers prove that they don't need the forum anymore, the plug pull is painless and silent...... its easy to run a company when you never here anything bad from anyone.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    afterburnt wrote: »
    A forum is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of socializing and communicating diverse thoughts and opinions. A forum will continue to exist up until the time that impotent malcontents discover that they can vote themselves power from the mods. From that moment on, the these few jerks, that are powerless in the real world always push for the mods to protect their delicate sensiblilties from mean people that differ with them and to impose their narcissistic standards on the majority, with the result that every forum will finally collapse over pandering to these special snowflakes, (which is) always followed by a moderator dictatorship.

    Stick a fork in it. The last one out hit the lights.

    Agreed.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    kevhed72 wrote: »
    I think a forum tied to an online retailer of gear which revolves around all the knowledge and passion which has built this forum may be the way to go. I would also like to see more exposure to all types of music, especially new music....almost a place for music lovers and audio gear lovers to connect. Nothing too mainstream like all the crap you here on radio, but serious music reviews and history. I have been kicking around this idea for awhile....I think you could get smaller music labels and smaller gear manufacturers to advertise. I know a bit about web design and a good amount about music....as many of you do. I need a creative outlet aside from my corporate drudgery....and I have a few friends out west who are good with graphics and design. Who's with me on this....

    If you build it, they will come...
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  • mikeyb128
    mikeyb128 Posts: 2,885
    afterburnt wrote: »
    A forum is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of socializing and communicating diverse thoughts and opinions. A forum will continue to exist up until the time that impotent malcontents discover that they can vote themselves power from the mods. From that moment on, the these few jerks, that are powerless in the real world always push for the mods to protect their delicate sensiblilties from mean people that differ with them and to impose their narcissistic standards on the majority, with the result that every forum will finally collapse over pandering to these special snowflakes, (which is) always followed by a moderator dictatorship.

    Stick a fork in it. The last one out hit the lights.

    Holy ****, Bruce Is sober, and made sense for once. Or maybe I'm not sober and that's why it made sense?
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    kharp1 wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    A forum is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of socializing and communicating diverse thoughts and opinions. A forum will continue to exist up until the time that impotent malcontents discover that they can vote themselves power from the mods. From that moment on, the these few jerks, that are powerless in the real world always push for the mods to protect their delicate sensiblilties from mean people that differ with them and to impose their narcissistic standards on the majority, with the result that every forum will finally collapse over pandering to these special snowflakes, (which is) always followed by a moderator dictatorship.

    Stick a fork in it. The last one out hit the lights.

    OK, check this out, see you're throwin' too many big words at me and because I don't understand them I'm going to take them as disrespect...so watch your mouth and help me with the sale.

    $1 in pennies to anyone that knows the movie...

    40 Year Old Virgin.

    Pay up, sucker!
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    daddyjt wrote: »
    When I first saw the movie "Demolition Man", I thought it was so hokey and over the top (yes, I know it's no cinematic masterpiece), but now the number of truly ridiculous "jokes" from that film that have come true is utterly staggering...

    Exactly. The parallels are scary. "Salt is bad for you, hence illegal."

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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    Society has changed from "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one" to "the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many."
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    mikeyb128 wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    A forum is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of socializing and communicating diverse thoughts and opinions. A forum will continue to exist up until the time that impotent malcontents discover that they can vote themselves power from the mods. From that moment on, the these few jerks, that are powerless in the real world always push for the mods to protect their delicate sensiblilties from mean people that differ with them and to impose their narcissistic standards on the majority, with the result that every forum will finally collapse over pandering to these special snowflakes, (which is) always followed by a moderator dictatorship.

    Stick a fork in it. The last one out hit the lights.

    Holy ****, Bruce Is sober, and made sense for once. Or maybe I'm not sober and that's why it made sense?

    Right....should almost be a sticky. Anyway....we've beat this discussion to death. Polk isn't interested in vintage SDA speakers, they make no money. New products are more to the portable crowd, which many audio enthusiasts avoid. Aside from 2 speaker series, nothing they carry or make interests me personally so I'm not a targeted consumer . The ones that are though, have lots of choices besides Polk, and when you see so many complaints about wireless products from Polk....we'll, I don't have to draw anyone a map do I ?
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,011
    A map for some would be extremely helpful Tony.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,420
    treitz3 wrote: »
    A map for some would be extremely helpful Tony.

    Tom

    Yea like they could read it......
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  • gmcman
    gmcman Posts: 1,804
    halen wrote: »
    BlueFox wrote: »
    nbrowser wrote: »
    This place is as dead as you make it guys. We can liven it up by posting, yes the simple act of posting increases search engine results for one and that's important. Another suggestion, with newbies that log in, welcome them! Involve them but don't belittle or insult them, a touch of honey goes much further than venom. Simply put, be more friendly, hell it can't hurt.

    Ken, I agree with your post, but I don't think that is the issue. The real problem is Vanilla, and the heavy handed Taliban style moderation that has completely eliminated discussions and differences of opinion. That is what is driving people away, and keeping people from joining. Who cares about a forum where everything is the same and bland, which is the modern definition of Vanilla. Which is to bad, since I love French Vanilla ice cream. :)

    I don't have any empirical evidence to truly blame Vanilla. Do you my friend? One of my small duties, spare time with nothing else to do... Is data mine traffic. One of ny favorites is the neural network mining concept.
    Anyhow...

    Cheers my friend.

    We have sticky threads in this version with links that give us this picture. That's alot of time and effort by members to help others. I enjoyed looking into the past discussions and all the research that was done.

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,717
    rednedtugent wrote: »
    That I would nay fall but as dead
    Dead as I can by why' feet, d'ya ken?
    And the wind cried back...

    Ahhhh..... Can't go wrong with the wisdom of Pink Floyd :)
    ....... early Pink Floyd that is.

    Moose mentioned some names back there of some folks who have made huge contributions to the forum and, by extension, Polk. He certainly couldn't list them all but I would like to add the name of Gimpod (Tony). Gimpod boards ? 'Nuff said. ✔
    There are more names that could be mentioned, to be sure, that are pretty obvious to the most casual of observers that make huuuuge contributions to the Polk brand.
    Of course, some of us are satisfied that we haven't caused the complete collapse of Western Civilization. Which is a good thing too.






    Sal Palooza
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    tonyb wrote: »
    mikeyb128 wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    A forum is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of socializing and communicating diverse thoughts and opinions. A forum will continue to exist up until the time that impotent malcontents discover that they can vote themselves power from the mods. From that moment on, the these few jerks, that are powerless in the real world always push for the mods to protect their delicate sensiblilties from mean people that differ with them and to impose their narcissistic standards on the majority, with the result that every forum will finally collapse over pandering to these special snowflakes, (which is) always followed by a moderator dictatorship.

    Stick a fork in it. The last one out hit the lights.

    Holy ****, Bruce Is sober, and made sense for once. Or maybe I'm not sober and that's why it made sense?

    Right....should almost be a sticky. Anyway....we've beat this discussion to death. Polk isn't interested in vintage SDA speakers, they make no money. New products are more to the portable crowd, which many audio enthusiasts avoid. Aside from 2 speaker series, nothing they carry or make interests me personally so I'm not a targeted consumer . The ones that are though, have lots of choices besides Polk, and when you see so many complaints about wireless products from Polk....we'll, I don't have to draw anyone a map do I ?

    I agree @tonyb

    And to add to that...I don't understand how Polk can't see the marketing value in $$ of having a rabid fan base interested in their legacy products. I feel that would only add to the reputation of the brand.

    Look at Klipsch bringing back new versions of all their legacy speakers. It appears as if they are actually celebrating their heritage.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Society has changed from "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one" to "the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many."

    Hard to overlook the logic of Mr. Spock...
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Society has changed from "the needs of the individual outweigh the needs of the collective" to "the needs of the State outweigh the needs of any."
    fixed it
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    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    steveinaz+afterburnt wrote: »
    Society has changed from "the needs of the individual outweigh the needs of the collective" to "the needs of the Deep State outweigh the needs of any."

    fixed it for use.
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    Government is the new entitlement class. Spare no expense, doesn't matter if constituents are going broke they need to raise taxes and waste more. It's disgusting.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,420
    Yep2 wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Society has changed from "the needs of the individual outweigh the needs of the collective" to "the needs of the State outweigh the needs of any."
    fixed it

    Aint that the truth!
    I was recently at a large lake in Oklahoma & there was police officers patrolling the campsites on the water on HIGH $$$ jet ski's complete with LED emergency lights.
    Pretty sure the State could have survived, without the umpteen thousands they spent on those!

    They confiscated some smucks house,plane, cars and cash I'm sure before he was found not guilty.

    That crap happens all the time it's ridiculous and should be illegal. Some poor sap was traveling through Illinois with a very large sum of money. In the millions if memory serves me right. He was pulled over for improper lane usage. He let them search the car. They found the cash so they let a dog sniff it and arrested him. They story was it had drug residue on it. The police spent it all up buying all kinds of goodies. Dude sued them for his money back. They laughed !! When it went to court they asked the judge and prosecuting attorney to empty their pockets of cash. Guess what the dog keyed off on their cash for drugs. Dudes attorney asked that they be arrested and all their belongings confiscated like they did his as it was only fair right. Illinois now owes the dude millions of dollars.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    Nothing but the dead and dying.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    Over? OVER?
    NOTHING IS OVER!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • warren
    warren Posts: 756
    This place is dead
    Wake me for the resurrection... yawn.....zzzzzzzzz....
    Some final words,
    "If you keep banging your head against the wall,
    you're going to have headaches."
    Warren
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  • halen
    halen Posts: 710
    Yep2 wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Society has changed from "the needs of the individual outweigh the needs of the collective" to "the needs of the State outweigh the needs of any."
    fixed it

    Aint that the truth!
    I was recently at a large lake in Oklahoma & there was police officers patrolling the campsites on the water on HIGH $$$ jet ski's complete with LED emergency lights.
    Pretty sure the State could have survived, without the umpteen thousands they spent on those!

    Eufala or Texoma?
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,420
    edited August 2017
    No different here in Illinois Paul
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    Imagine my shock when my dad told me that we have to pay for house heat!
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  • halen
    halen Posts: 710
    Yep2 wrote: »
    halen wrote: »
    Yep2 wrote: »
    afterburnt wrote: »
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Society has changed from "the needs of the individual outweigh the needs of the collective" to "the needs of the State outweigh the needs of any."
    fixed it

    Aint that the truth!
    I was recently at a large lake in Oklahoma & there was police officers patrolling the campsites on the water on HIGH $$$ jet ski's complete with LED emergency lights.
    Pretty sure the State could have survived, without the umpteen thousands they spent on those!

    Eufala or Texoma?

    Tenkiller.

    State of Arkansas:
    WHAT A SCAM!
    THANKS Governer Bill Clinton!
    Say you buy a new vehicle...
    If its over $2500 every single person that buys that vehicle will pay taxes on it over & over again.
    Then the Personal property taxes...
    Arkansas charges you every year for owning it!
    Then you have to buy tags on top of that every year.
    Plus mandatory Insurance.

    Checkout Turner Falls. Rock on man.
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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    edited August 2017
    Yep2 wrote: »
    rednedtugent wrote: »
    Imagine my shock when my dad told me that we have to pay for house heat!

    I don't pay for house heat "City Slicker".
    I cut my own heat. Hehe
    No taxes on that!

    And it heats twice at that.
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