Dear forum members,
Why do people (both sides) jump on everything and every comment these days? I say: let it rest. It's just a cable. Not worth extensive discussing. Not every comment needs responding.
I’m going to respectfully “jump on” your comment regarding comments lol. These forums are basically called discussion boards right? The whole point was that people could come and discuss things, agree, disagree, expand upon a topic, learn, vent, et al., the the caveat it’s done in a civil manner.
I saw a post once where someone said they wanted to be able to post threads and lock them as read only, basically letting the OP put a statement out there about whatever yet not let anyone respond. That has its uses in certain circumstances of course, but what a boring forum would that be ?
Certainly some users pop on here once in a blue moon to ask a specific question and that is it, but the “regulars” come to participate and have exchanges, essentially making this a bit of an online social group, community of folks with similar interest etc.
I’m a member of a lot of forums for a lot of different hobbies and interest and some of them are a darn ghost town man.... The post have one or even no responses, the first page has “recent” posts going back months. Those places are dead and the reason is they are boring!
The fact that we can get 2 pages about a “bad” XLR cable is the very thing that brings people to this forum.
One can choose to participate as much or little as they want, and certainly some participate a lot, but that’s the point of a discussion board, to discuss!
If this thread goes to 5 or 10 pages, all about a silly cable, who cares ? Provided everyone remains civil and such of course.
Unless Cliff starts charging us for data use, or by the character, I can’t see any need not to discuss and/or comment on a discussion forum.
Just my $0.02 on the matter in a world where few, if any, still bother to pick up a penny they see laying on the street