I may not have agreed with Skip on everything, but I sure respected the he!! out of his knowledge and experience. Also consider him to be a person of amazing strength.
Change is the only consistent thing I have learned to accept in my life, nothing is permanent (except God- but don’t ban me for that)
I see this as an opportunity for Skip to realize new pathways and further his goals of sharing his knowledge. I look forward with optimism while grieving the forum’s loss.
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Seriously makes me want to move on to. This place used to be about supporting others, not trying to drag them down and denigrate them at every possible turn unless they truly deserved it.
Some of you are no better than the trolls you constantly **** and moan about.
This is the reason I haven't been commenting as much lately. I still visit daily but man on almost every thread there is some bickering or belittling of other members and I can't stand the negativity.
A lot of members have been going through some tough times and I get that. I have thought about taking a break myself just to get rid of the negative energy but other audio forums just don't have the same feel to me so I come back.
I'd like to see everyone just get along and agree to disagree. Call it an early Christmas gift.
Just a dude doing dude-ly things
"Temptation is the manifestation of desire which equals necessity." - Mikey081057
" I have always had a champange taste with a beer budget" - Rick88
"Just because the thread is getting views don't mean much .. I like a good train wreck doesn't mean i want to be in one..." - pitdogg2
"Those that don't know, don't know that they don't know." - heiney9
"Audiophiles are the male equivalent of cat ladies." - Audiokarma Member
Most forums are, ultimately, somebody else's sandbox. If we pee in their sandbox, we are likely to get booted...or disciplined in some way as in this case. We like to think free speech rules in these forums (vanilla speech, at least), but as we see, there are limits.
I'm sorry that Skip chose such an extreme option, especially if he was given alternatives. We lost a lot of archival knowledge and valued opinion.
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
It won't be the same without him. I don't understand his reasons but I respect them.
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I'm sorry to see Derek leave. I hope he will reconsider. My PM's with him still have his comments, so maybe there's hope all his valuable contributions to the forum are not lost forever.
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tonyb said " but even socialists can do a good thing here and there
Social media makes dumb people dumber and smart people dumb then dumber.
I'm sorry to see Derek leave. I hope he will reconsider. My PM's with him still have his comments, so maybe there's hope all his valuable contributions to the forum are not lost forever.
Dave, you still have PMs you exchanged with him? Odd. I had a few PMs to him over the years, but ALL are gone now - which stinks because he had given me a lot of good information and it's now gone. I do have his contact info so I can reach out to him outside the forum again if need be. It just sucks that MY messages were deleted too!
I have a pm that I started with him that is still there. I bet it has to do with which person started the pm. Like when nbrowser had his posts deleted. Any threads started by him vanished, even when others participated in them. That's just a guess.
Most forums are, ultimately, somebody else's sandbox. If we pee in their sandbox, we are likely to get booted...or disciplined in some way as in this case. We like to think free speech rules in these forums (vanilla speech, at least), but as we see, there are limits.
I'm sorry that Skip chose such an extreme option, especially if he was given alternatives. We lost a lot of archival knowledge and valued opinion.
Have any of you guys been on AH, or EMO forum? them dude’s will surely jump ya.
Sorry guys, been a busy morning. He reached out to us and asked that we delete his account along with all his posts. I asked if he was 100% sure, since we cannot recover his posts once we've deleted them, he replied with yes.
I can certainly unban him if he ever changes his mind but this was 100% his decision. Not sure why.
That's odd, I wouldn't have quit just because of that, but then again I usually don't know when to quit. Thank you Cassidy for responding, most of these folks just ignore me.
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Change is the only consistent thing I have learned to accept in my life, nothing is permanent (except God- but don’t ban me for that)
I see this as an opportunity for Skip to realize new pathways and further his goals of sharing his knowledge. I look forward with optimism while grieving the forum’s loss.
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This is the reason I haven't been commenting as much lately. I still visit daily but man on almost every thread there is some bickering or belittling of other members and I can't stand the negativity.
A lot of members have been going through some tough times and I get that. I have thought about taking a break myself just to get rid of the negative energy but other audio forums just don't have the same feel to me so I come back.
I'd like to see everyone just get along and agree to disagree. Call it an early Christmas gift.
"Temptation is the manifestation of desire which equals necessity." - Mikey081057
" I have always had a champange taste with a beer budget" - Rick88
"Just because the thread is getting views don't mean much .. I like a good train wreck doesn't mean i want to be in one..." - pitdogg2
"Those that don't know, don't know that they don't know." - heiney9
"Audiophiles are the male equivalent of cat ladies." - Audiokarma Member
I'm sorry that Skip chose such an extreme option, especially if he was given alternatives. We lost a lot of archival knowledge and valued opinion.
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
CJ (Formerly)
Other; S60'S, M10 series II, M7C's, Hafler XL600 amp, RB-980BX, Parasound HCA-1500 amp , P5 preamp, all in storage. All vintage Polk have had crossover rebuilds and tweeter upgrades.
tonyb said " but even socialists can do a good thing here and there
Social media makes dumb people dumber and smart people dumb then dumber.
Dave, you still have PMs you exchanged with him? Odd. I had a few PMs to him over the years, but ALL are gone now - which stinks because he had given me a lot of good information and it's now gone. I do have his contact info so I can reach out to him outside the forum again if need be. It just sucks that MY messages were deleted too!
Nice!! 😁
Have any of you guys been on AH, or EMO forum? them dude’s will surely jump ya.
I can certainly unban him if he ever changes his mind but this was 100% his decision. Not sure why.
Obviously we cannot show the full conversation since all of his posts were deleted but below is the email reply from him we can reference.
Derek if you happen to read this I wish you well my friend. And hope you come back!
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Are you selling them as a dealer?
Totally different coming from a dealer with a monetary interest.
It’s too bad he chose to go this direction and blow what seems to be a simple and understandable request way out of proportion.
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Well said, Lot’s of people use forum’s for personal gain. Not just Polk, go over on EMO or AH, or AVS most of the older members are dealers.
Does anyone here think Derek was actually doing that?
Heck there have been a few here on CP that all they do is post in the FS thread.
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Spare Room: Antique Sound Labs Wave AV-8 Monoblocks,Tisbury Mini Passive Pre,Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38),Analysis Plus Oval 9's,Zu Jumpers,AudioEngine B1 Streamer,Klipsch RB-61 v2,SVS PB1000 sub,Blue Jeans RCA IC's
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated,Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer,Rotel RCD-1072 CD player,Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner,Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers,Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub