I can't wait to see the coming years' CES showgirl.....

shawn474

......as I'm sure she'll be clad in a full Muslim burka.

Polk wouldn't want to offend anyone you know. Gosh forbid they exploit the female form for profit like every other manufacturer in the world. What a great way to make a stand and mean nothing!

Shawn

phuz

I'm sure she won't be bending over in a dental floss thong either.

Y'all need to chill out. This is Polk forum, not a babe forum. They made the right decision, and the decision is theirs to make.

Early B.

phuz wrote: »

I'm sure she won't be bending over in a dental floss thong either.

You missed the point. What Shawn is saying is that it's hypocritical for a speaker manufacturer to shut down a babe thread, then use babes to sell their speakers. Exploitation of women is wrong, regardless of whether they use dental floss.;)

Besides, none of us made any money by posting pics in the babe thread, but speaker manufacturers will pimp women to do so. Hmmmm.

PolkThug

.01% of men that see that girl will rape women, its simple math.

reeltrouble1

Ding Ding a winner!!!!! Good Post Shawn. Pretty obvious when it comes to the green, it's totally acceptable. Always has been, always will be, not that I am complaining or want it to end though!!!!! I love the Polk Chick's, OK, they are hired temporary Polk Chicks, but still I love em with their tight T's, skimpy shorts, Hot Legs and little butts hanging in the air...........someone should write a song about it...........really

RT1

disneyjoe7

It's just too bad those Polk Babes may piss 2 out of 25000 people off and they will need to bend over to please the 2

It's the new American way, I guess they will need to shut off my talk radio as it offends their little pee brain also.

BaggedLancer

We need shadownight to get some of his "girls" to take pictures with speakers...polk speakers.

disneyjoe7

I beginning to believe Shadow pays his girls to do anything he says.

tonyb

PolkThug wrote: »

.01% of men that see that girl will rape women, its simple math.

.....AND .01% would commit suicide by listening to Ron.
......so,if he stopped exhaling in and out,the percentage of green house gasses would go down thus saving the world from complete destruction.

Ricardo

Sona wrote: »

If censorship is the issue, where is the outrage about the other deleted threads and posts?

Maybe no one cared about those other threads?

jflail2

Ricardo wrote: »

Maybe no one cared about those other threads?

Ricardo:

Adding the 2 dolts to your ignore list is the most appropriate thing to do. If they never get another response on here, eventually they'll go troll elsewhere.

shack

jflail2 wrote:

Ricardo:

Adding the 2 dolts to your ignore list is the most appropriate thing to do. If they never get another response on here, eventually they'll go troll elsewhere.

And even if they don't leave...you don't care because you won't have to read any of the useless drivel they post anyway.

Ricardo

I never thought I'd use the ignore list. Three members added. I think everyone should use it nowadays.

Roy Munson

The ignore list can be your friend.

+2

cmy330go

Sona....Do us all a favor and just go away. You have absolutely nothing of value to add to this forum. Your posts are nothing more than a waste of bandwidth.

The same goes for your cohorts.

jflail2

Ignore is the way to go cmy. Nature will take its course...

PhantomOG

Is is possible to make the ignore feature any stronger? You still see threads started by the poster and you still the spaces where their posts are, with a convenient little link to view their post. It would be nice not to even see their threads/posts at all.

dorokusai

Shawn - L O L

shadowofnight

Trucking the girls in as we speak.....

reeltrouble1

PhantomOG wrote: »

Is is possible to make the ignore feature any stronger? You still see threads started by the poster and you still the spaces where their posts are, with a convenient little link to view their post. It would be nice not to even see their threads/posts at all.

not a bad thought, maybe the Mods will consider it. Although I frequently talk to and answer myself!!!!!!!! I am not sure how, but I lose some arguements as well:D

Damm, hope that is not Matthew driving that tasteful babe in the rust bucket, last I saw he was sporting his Porshe.

RT1

schwarcw

Using the "ignore" feature is self censorship.

I have no problem with Sona, Ron or anyone's else opinion as I respect their freedom of speech. Yes, it is a commercial Forum and Polk has a right to do what they want with what we post. I don't have a problem with that either.

My opinion is that Justin's remarks about Sona and Ron complaining was bull! I suspect Polk had wanted to shut it down for sometime. A lot of you here admitted it got a little tacky at times. Sona and Ron's remarks gave Polk the perfect opportunity to close the thread. THINK ABOUT IT! Look at the reaction from the members when the thread was closed. If Polk did it arbitrarily, there could have been a consumer backlash by the Forum members. Just look at how everyone behaved when the thread was closed!!!

Justin or Polk would never admit it, but along came an opportunity and WHAM! Thread closed. Sona and Ron may in fact be the real victims here.

Think what you may, just consider the circumstances and ponder Polk's position.

cfrizz

I'm not so sure Carl.

I think that Polk does have the guts to just close a thread & come straight out and say "We will not allow these kinds of posts on our forum."

This is the only audio forum I've been on that did have this kind of thread going None of the others I visit do & manage to chug along just fine.

But I agree with the over reaction of the guys & those that made the threat to boycott or start talking down Polk products for a closed thread that had nothing to do with audio is just ridiculous!

If you are this upset about it, then some of you need to get some counseling as well because the Sona & Ron aren't the only ones with issues.

reeltrouble1

Sorry Carl but your forgetting or maybe it was before you joined, the first babe thread got locked entirely by Polk and no one had a real problem with it. There was no backlash and after a bit the next one was started with the thought of having it be a bit more classy.

now I admit to enjoying the ladies, however, it was getting out of hand, a few guys tried to warn but.............I am here mostly to cut up, enjoy the audio talk and pass a thought on to a newb in need, so the actual thread being gone I can live with and I certainly respect Polk Audio and the position Justin holds.

schwarcw

You may be right Ted. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the thread as much as anyone. I ooggled the girls and may have made some tasteless remarks. When I joined the Forum and saw the thread, my first thoughts were "Why do they allow this? It seems inappropriate". Many of us work for big companies that won't tolerate the slightest use of material like this. But I know that flesh sells and figured "oh well".

My thought were that this gave Polk a good opportunity. It may not have been as nasty as the original, and maybe Polk allowed it in the beginning for that reason. Some of the photos and remarks got to be pretty borderline.

There are plenty of places to see this material, I don't have a great sense of loss. I don't like to see our good members, many of whom I know personally behave like a lynch mob over this issue. It just isn't worth it. I want this Forum to grow in members, not lose them.

Just my $0.02.:)

Carl

schwarcw

rskarvan

schwarcw wrote: »

Using the "ignore" feature is self censorship.

I have no problem with Sona, Ron or anyone's else opinion as I respect their freedom of speech. Yes, it is a commercial Forum and Polk has a right to do what they want with what we post. I don't have a problem with that either.

My opinion is that Justin's remarks about Sona and Ron complaining was bull! I suspect Polk had wanted to shut it down for sometime. A lot of you here admitted it got a little tacky at times. Sona and Ron's remarks gave Polk the perfect opportunity to close the thread. THINK ABOUT IT! Look at the reaction from the members when the thread was closed. If Polk did it arbitrarily, there could have been a consumer backlash by the Forum members. Just look at how everyone behaved when the thread was closed!!!

Justin or Polk would never admit it, but along came an opportunity and WHAM! Thread closed. Sona and Ron may in fact be the real victims here.

Think what you may, just consider the circumstances and ponder Polk's position.

Thank you for the support, but I am not a victim. I do agree that Justin should have enough testosterone to take responsiblity for his actions - shutting down the Tasteful Babe Thread. Yes, I did complain. Yes, I think Justin absolutely did the right thing and that shutting down the TBT was long overdue. Yes, I think that both Polk Audio and half the market-place (women audio consumers) will benefit from Polk Audio doing the right thing. But, in the end, it was Polk's decision to make - not mine.

You all have a point-of-view and have no fear of expressing it. I too have a point-of-view and am proud to express it. You may choose to listen to me. You may choose to ignore me. God knows I ignore most of you most of the time. But, I will not ignore a lady that is offended by the presence of scantily clad women that are entirely irrelevent to the subject matter of "Audio". Thank goodness that Polk Audio management cares about their customers. That is what makes Polk such a great speaker company!

Ron

shack

The thread is not totally inconsistent with Polk's "image" especially when it comes to the world of mobile audio and the 18-30 year old, predominantly male customer base. Polk usually has an event booth at the various NOPI, MECA, SEMA etc. shows...and models (often very similar to the ones in the thread) are part of that environment as shown here....



While it has been a long time since I fit into the targeted demographic...I certainly appreciate the effort on the part of Polk to draw my attention to their products in this manner. I am in NO WAY OFFENDED.

shadowofnight

And she's buttaface to boot :mad:

reeltrouble1

Well I believe the members are acting appropriately by stating their opinion and using the ignore feature, just because they are many in number does not make them a mob, they are folks who have invested a great deal into this club and are now expressing their opinion.

I rather enjoy seeing the membership pull together. I guess you will just have to trust that Polk does not need an "opportunity" to close a thread. It was closed because the two members stated they were offended and that is that.

RT1

shadowofnight

Same hypocritical scantily clad girls....this one a little better looking..straight from polks own website...

brettw22

Seems like there are a few that are suffering from too much sand in the ****......wash that out and remove some of the toxins while you're at it.....

It's humorous to see someone like rskarvan actually spout his crap like be actually believes it.....he somehow believes that the 211,000 views all came from different people, creating his 211million people of which he pulled his idiotic number out of. The guy is clearly on the downslide of life, and this is what he's all about.........sad really......

and has sona posted about ANYthing audio? i certainly haven't seen them if they exist............