Why is this the forum that must remain nameless over on Head-fi?

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by m8o, Nov 5, 2015.

  1. GoodEnoughGear

    GoodEnoughGear Evil Dr. Shultz‎

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    I covet SBAF. We need a decent barrier to entry, so by all means censor the shit out of us. If you do make it over here you at least had the tenacity to look hard.
     
  2. spwath

    spwath Hijinks master cum laudle

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    Im no good a photoshop, but here we are.....
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  3. frenchbat

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    How about we focus on doing good signal, instead of discussing this ? This thread got really noisy.
     
  4. zonto

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    The thread was pure noise to begin with. Just think of it as a place where people can unwind and air their grievances.

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  5. frenchbat

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    OP got his answer, then it was good fun. Now it's just horse pulp. Let's put this thing out of his misery and lock it.
     
  6. LauriCular

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    I saw him on Sunday, but had to be on my best behaviour.

    The irony! I thought we were here as the mods aren't so overzealous over this way. Surely you can avoid this thread if it's horseshit?
     
  7. MrButchi

    MrButchi Gear Master Europe

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    I think bat is just saying there is no point in piling shit on shit.
    We all know the deal (even the OP now), so really what need is there to bad mouth for bad mouthing purpose only?
     
  8. LauriCular

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    It's fun to read! (and write, come on be honest). But I take your point.
     
  9. spwath

    spwath Hijinks master cum laudle

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    It is fun to put Kim Jong Un's face in a headfi logo, I admit.
     
  10. Deep Funk

    Deep Funk Deep thoughts - Friend

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    Now breathe in and shout "Serenity now!" If that does not help watch more Seinfeld.
     
  11. Madaboutaudio

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    Kim Jude Un with his moderators standing by to do the slient ban:

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  12. OJneg

    OJneg The Most Insufferable

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    Kim Jude Un is better
     
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    Similar or not? You decide:

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  14. Dino

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    Head-Fi could spend some time screening their advertisements, unless they can't spare any after screening every post.

    Today, I was reading the Jason Stoddard - Schiit Happened thread on my phone and accidently hit an ad with my thumb. A screen pops up with something like "Your google is 82.8% infected. Click "here" to correct.". :eek:
     
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    1) DPRK propaganda photos are incredible. Look at those poor bastards pretending to give a shit.
    2) I can't get past how poorly he is wearing those headphones. It's an on-ear headphone! Pull it ONTO YOUR EAR.
     
  16. robot zombie

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    Right? Look at how frail and skinny they are! How does it not bother him to be surrounded by ghouls?

    I don't think they can make it down to his ears. His head's just too f'ing big.

    Also just noticed... ...can he not afford a properly fitted suit?
     
  17. purr1n

    purr1n Desire for betterer is endless.

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    One thing I would like to clarify is that despite appearances, SuperBAF does not hate Head-Fi or Jude. It's more that we tend to be irreverent. We don't take well known figures seriously, we don't take authorities seriously. We don't even take ourselves seriously! The fact is, people like Ravi and I were born pranksters. I don't know about Ravi's collegiate experience, but I lived with a bunch of frat dudes (haha, I wasn't even part of their frat), and all we did was f**k with other. It's kind of a guy thing that not all people will understand. This is why we love screwing with Jude. Because he takes everything so seriously and we get a bunch of shits and giggles from it!

    It's not that we do not have our differences. I still don't like the fact that Jude craps on us to vendors (we don't really care because some vendors, especially the ones who make good stuff, still work with us. Yes, we no longer get samples from HiFiMan, but really, that's their loss.) I also feel that Jude is very disingenuous on jumping on the measurement bandwagon now. (Jude seemed ambivalent about the CSD measurement threads I started on HF five years ago. Five years ago! He even publicly denounced me and my measurements at at Ann Arbor meet in 2015. The fact is, if Jude had approached me, I would have been totally willing to help him and the HF community.) As far as moderation, I really didn't have a problem with it back then. Amos had always given me wide latitude - I'm super appreciative of that; although Jude always kind of had a dickish tone toward me (considering my contributions to HF in terms of content and organizing meets, he only ever PM'd me to tell me that I did something wrong. It would have been nice if he had occasionally asked how I was doing. I stopped reading PMs from Jude after he sent me an irate [totally warranted] profanity laced [never warranted] message to me. It was so ugly that I immediately deleted it without finishing to read it.)

    But I don't take any of this personally, and as I've said in the past, I'd totally be willing to bury the hatchet and let bygones be bygones (I fully admit I've been a dick too). I've said this for years, in the secret Changstar chatbox, which I know Jude had access to. There's absolutely no reason why we can't both coexist in peace. Our aims are different, but there is a huge overlap in audience. In an alternate timeline, Jude and I are probably good friends.
     
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  18. OJneg

    OJneg The Most Insufferable

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    The darkest timeline
     
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  19. rott

    rott Secretly hates other millenials - Friend

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    The OP's question has already been answered (quite well in this thread), but I just want to say the difference between the 2 sites is quite obvious: Signal here, Noise there. It takes a shit-ton of thread digging to glean useful info there.
     
  20. purr1n

    purr1n Desire for betterer is endless.

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    Naaaa. I see a great arrangement where anything critical about vendors' products can be shoved here. This would actually allow HF to be a forum fully supportive of all vendors products. In turn, because there would be peace, we wouldn't be antagonizing Jude with pirate themed T-shirts, or saying off-the-cuff bad things about him in secret chatboxes where he has spies forwarding him information. We could run combined tradeshows and hobbyist meets together. The us versus them approach really doesn't benefit anyone. Peace would allow an open exchange of ideas. If anything, HF would benefit more.
     

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