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[buonassi]

14 hours ago, STC said:

after receiving certain number of votes it gets hidden

 

good premise.  Can this be explored further with CA site?  It's interesting to say the least.

 

Agreement or disagreement with a post isn't the cause of grief (for me at least).  It's when things go off topic (often), resort to 'bickering' (not unusual), or devolve into personal attacks (more rare lately from what I've seen).   Some witty sarcasm is actually a good thing as it brings flavor to the read.  The challenge will be in delineating 'funny' posts from 'aggressive' ones.  Even then, not everyone reacts the same way to, say, sarcasm and may feel aggrieved.  

 

At the end of all this exploring, there may not be a good solution here (if we want to avoid censorship) except to have a 'report post' and have one or several mods (volunteers) respond, and do so consistently.  

[Shadders]

Hi,

With the downvotes hiding a post - the issue is, why is the person getting downvotes ? If the person downvoting does not reply, the awareness of why the downvote will never be known.

 

What if a person(s) persistently downvotes someone regardless of what the say ? It will be used as a form of chastisement, or people exhibiting a grudge.

 

Again, i have been on a forum where you state a fact, on topic, and so many downvotes, and no one responded as to why they disagreed. There seems to be some sort of group think where i stated something against their unwritten ethos.

 

When i look at this forum, there are a small number of regular posters, and they can be seen as objectivists and subjectivists. So what happens when one group begins to edit or delete the other groups posts (for what ever reason - you are not told). Or downvotes - for what ever reason you are not told.

 

Again, the forum should be exactly as it would be in a physical setting, all views heard and not suppressed, disagreements vocalised as opposed to suppressed, edited, removed, or hidden.

 

With so many forums or social platforms providing for only like minded people to discuss and talk, creating an environment where all agree with each other, it is unhealthy.

 

Regards,

Shadders.

[STC]

I prefer the OP having an option to hide rather than leaving it to readers. Mr X starts a post. Mr Y makes a comment. X hides the post. Readers can still read them if they want to and they can reply to it. If majority of the readers feel the post shouldn’t be hidden or the OP was abusing his privilege than CA could remove the privilege from him. 

[mansr]

2 hours ago, Shadders said:

What if a person(s) persistently downvotes someone regardless of what the say ? It will be used as a form of chastisement, or people exhibiting a grudge.

That already happened on this very forum. For a while, there was a downvote button, but Chris removed it after a few people started abusing it in the way you describe.

[sphinxsix]

I've just noticed one can upvote his own posts now. I like the idea

[mourip]

I have been using an ad-blocker plugin for a couple of years. Over the past year I have seen more and more sites using popups to ask me to turn it off. On more aggressive sites they will sometimes actually block my access. I understand this and appreciate the economic model that many websites work with.

 

In the spirit of supporting Chris's work here and to fund his three legged dog I now have unblocked ads here.

 

I would just ask one favor. Please consider not using ads that have motion in them or that follow you as you scroll.. 

 

Thanks for the great site!

[The Computer Audiophile]

2 hours ago, mourip said:

I have been using an ad-blocker plugin for a couple of years. Over the past year I have seen more and more sites using popups to ask me to turn it off. On more aggressive sites they will sometimes actually block my access. I understand this and appreciate the economic model that many websites work with.

 

In the spirit of supporting Chris's work here and to fund his three legged dog I now have unblocked ads here.

 

I would just ask one favor. Please consider not using ads that have motion in them or that follow you as you scroll.. 

 

Thanks for the great site!

Thanks for the comments @mourip

 

P.S. Here's a photo from a few minutes ago in my listening room. Our three-legged chihuahua broke her only front leg. She has a cast on it now. She has gone through two surgeries to repair the leg. At the second surgery the University of Minnesota vets used an experimental procedure with bone morphogenetic protein - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4017344

 

[mourip]

18 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Thanks for the comments @mourip

 

P.S. Here's a photo from a few minutes ago in my listening room. Our three-legged chihuahua broke her only front leg. She has a cast on it now. She has gone through two surgeries to repair the leg. At the second surgery the University of Minnesota vets used an experimental procedure with bone morphogenetic protein - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4017344

 

 

That is a well loved dog.

 

A friends cat had bad timing one day and walked up to her owner who was practicing his golf swing. Things went from "fore" to three unfortunartely...

 

We nicknamed her "tripod" after that...

[One and a half]

I thought as part of subscribing there be no ads... so why does Adblocker report 63 blocks on this page at CA?

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, One and a half said:

I thought as part of subscribing there be no ads... so why does Adblocker report 63 blocks on this page at CA?

 

 

You'd have to bring that up with your ad blocker developer. Try disabling it once and see how many ads you get. Zero :~)

[One and a half]

31 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

You'd have to bring that up with your ad blocker developer. Try disabling it once and see how many ads you get. Zero :~)

righto. The cover page features a lot of links to youtube, which is a little different to an ad link. There are 6 blocks on the page, but when allowed, the count is zero. Damn software coding, full of fabrication.

[mansr]

31 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

You'd have to bring that up with your ad blocker developer. Try disabling it once and see how many ads you get. Zero :~)

Those social sharing buttons might still be pulling in some tracking links that get blocked. I haven't checked the ones here (on mobile at the moment), but it's pretty common.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi Guys - As a countermeasure to the spammers that continually hammer CA I’ve implemented a new feature that will stop them from posting. I won’t say what it is because that would give them information about circumventing it. 

 

Let me know if you see anything strange when posting. 

[jventer]

5 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Hi Guys - As a countermeasure to the spammers that continually hammer CA I’ve implemented a new feature that will stop them from posting. I won’t say what it is because that would give them information about circumventing it. 

 

Let me know if you see anything strange when posting. 

And a minute ago there is more?

All the best.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 hour ago, jventer said:

And a minute ago there is more?

All the best.

The new thing only stopped some. Frustrating. 

[STC]

1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

The new thing only stopped some. Frustrating. 

 

Why not can the first 10 posts of a new user? All of their posts must be approved by the mod during the probation period of 10 posts. 

[mav52]

1 hour ago, STC said:

 

Why not can the first 10 posts of a new user? All of their posts must be approved by the mod during the probation period of 10 posts. 

 

Great idea. I know a few sites that do that.  The first few post must be approved by the site mod or owner(s).   During that "new intro period" no attachments like pictures, no links it sure cuts down on crap coming in. 

[firedog]

On 7/30/2018 at 6:28 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

I value all opinions and feedback and have taken @mansr comments seriously. One other person who frequents CA sent me a PM about this as well. 

 

We try to find a balance that makes everyone happy (yes there's the problem, keeping everyone happy). This new banner space isn't going to be used all the time. It's much more expensive than traditional banner space, but it enables us to show the banner less and gives the advertiser better results (CTR). This banner is purchased on a monthly basis, usually to coincide with a launch or something special. The current dCS banner campaign in this position expires in the middle of August. 

 

As a point of reference, please consider visiting this HiFi site (link below) and compare it to our top banners. This doesn't make anyone right, but it's a point of reference nonetheless. 

 

https://www.monoandstereo.com

 

Well, yeah, but that site is the audiophile parallel to a girly magazine. Lots of ads, pictures, virtually no content. "Light porn" for audiophiles. I never go there - it is a total waste of time.

[Shadders]

On 8/29/2018 at 5:00 AM, The Computer Audiophile said:

Hi Guys - As a countermeasure to the spammers that continually hammer CA I’ve implemented a new feature that will stop them from posting. I won’t say what it is because that would give them information about circumventing it. 

 

Let me know if you see anything strange when posting. 

Hi,

It ain't working.

Google translate indicates it is Korean - and is about travel. For some reason they mention Thai, Vietnamese, and Russian travel shops.

I have not seen this on any other sites where the forum sign up is very easy.

Are you sure you are not being targeted ?

Regards,

Shadders.

[Jud]

1 hour ago, Shadders said:

Hi,

It ain't working.

Google translate indicates it is Korean - and is about travel. For some reason they mention Thai, Vietnamese, and Russian travel shops.

I have not seen this on any other sites where the forum sign up is very easy.

Are you sure you are not being targeted ?

Regards,

Shadders.

 

Jesu.

[Shadders]

29 minutes ago, Jud said:

 

Jesu.

HI,

I mean being targeted by someone who does not have your best interests in consideration, such as a person with a grudge, as opposed that the spammer finds your site easy to spam.

https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/browse/?q=spamming

Regards,

Shadders.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 hour ago, Shadders said:

Hi,

It ain't working.

Google translate indicates it is Korean - and is about travel. For some reason they mention Thai, Vietnamese, and Russian travel shops.

I have not seen this on any other sites where the forum sign up is very easy.

Are you sure you are not being targeted ?

Regards,

Shadders.

 

Hi Shadders - What a morning. Thousands of posts. My new thing doesn’t work. Time to go back to the developers of the custom code with the evidence :~(

 

 

[STC]

1 minute ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

Hi Shadders - What a morning. Thousands of posts. My new thing doesn’t work. Time to go back to the developers of the custom code with the evidence :~(

 

 

 

Put new member’s first ten posts under approval. 

[mav52]

27 minutes ago, STC said:

 

Put new member’s first ten posts under approval. 

 

Agree,

[Jud]

50 minutes ago, Shadders said:

HI,

I mean being targeted by someone who does not have your best interests in consideration, such as a person with a grudge, as opposed that the spammer finds your site easy to spam.

https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/browse/?q=spamming

Regards,

Shadders.

 

Yes, my remark was regarding the level of the stuff, which might indeed indicate targeting.