Internets! Dear science, please burn it down for me. Thank you.

[Whitey80]

You guys are alright, never had a bad experience here.....but AVS Forum on the other hand....everytime I post in a thread with a sane and level-headed opinion, it turns into the spark for a flame-war, which I bow right out of.
Goodness, you think I would learn my lesson sometime.

The apparent appeal of the anonymity of the keyboard, is that you can suddenly say things to people that would more than likely get you tossed over a table in a face-to-face interaction.
Or maybe I'm some sort of cro-magnon who would rather argue a fool with my fists than my brain....it's one of those two things. Not sure which, would hope it's the former, not the latter.

 

[j_garcia]

This is pretty much the definition of AVS and why I don't go there.

 

[Whitey80]

This is pretty much the definition of AVS and why I don't go there.

You are a far smarter man than I, it seems.
Just like to have more 2-channel conversations than I find here, surely there's a forum out there for that, populated by adults.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

besides flame wars - I cant stand 1000 pages threads and people expect me to read all of them to get familiar - it's simple impossible

I get more than enough opinions here

 

[BMXTRIX]

There is a lot of knowledge over at those forums, and a ton of opinions that go along with the actual knowledge which causes headaches.

My biggest gripe there is that if you have a single real question about any product, your post always gets deleted and you are asked to stick to the official product thread. While I understand this, quite often those threads are a thousand plus posts long, and your information may or may NOT be in the thread.

What's worse, is that while there are a lot of tweakers there, the number of people with real world day-to-day A/V experience tends to run rather thin, so if you ask a technical question, you quite often don't get a good answer when it comes to more high end and techie questions.

They do have a few forums which are really nice such as their media players forums which get some activity but not as much as much as their other forums and actually have some pretty bright people in there that aren't overly hostile.

Sometimes their forums are great, but they aren't as consistently solid as what we have here for sure and I won't bash them for just being a bit 'large' at times.

 

[j_garcia]

There is a lot of knowledge over at those forums, and a ton of opinions that go along with the actual knowledge which causes headaches.

My biggest gripe there is that if you have a single real question about any product, your post always gets deleted and you are asked to stick to the official product thread. While I understand this, quite often those threads are a thousand plus posts long, and your information may or may NOT be in the thread.

What's worse, is that while there are a lot of tweakers there, the number of people with real world day-to-day A/V experience tends to run rather thin, so if you ask a technical question, you quite often don't get a good answer when it comes to more high end and techie questions.

They do have a few forums which are really nice such as their media players forums which get some activity but not as much as much as their other forums and actually have some pretty bright people in there that aren't overly hostile.

Sometimes their forums are great, but they aren't as consistently solid as what we have here for sure and I won't bash them for just being a bit 'large' at times.

More or less agree with that. The issue isn't that the knowledge isn't there, it is that there tends to be a lot of BS to wade through. Not everyone there is snooty or hostile, but the few bad apples still tended to spoil it often enough that I wasn't interested in dealing with it.