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Author Topic: Why the name "Changstar" became, like the "Voldemort," forbidden at Head-Fi?  (Read 21798 times)

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Maxvla

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Jude involved himself and well, I'm a contributor once again, but I still have the ads. Guess I'll just settle for this. Going to try to take it easy as I got riled up and caused myself unnecessary stress. HF isn't worth my health.
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When one becomes threatened of what you are, you have crossed a line of relevancy to them. If you make it a mission of being relevant to someone else, then you just get sucked into their game. CS should continue to steer its own course, obviously, because it really doesn't matter what HF-luminati thinks.

Each has their own purpose in existence, and that's probably why the bulk of us still visits both sites.
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Nevermind. I'm stupid and forgot there's a check box to turn off the ads at contributor rank. Ad free once again!  :)p1
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Head-Fi commodifies the interests of headphone enthusiasts by functioning as a sort of sales club wherein manufacturers and advertisers have direct access to a moderated pool of consumers. Changstar, Head-Case and nwavguy are entities whose birth was influenced by the appreciation of networking opportunities which head-fi provides coupled with the dissatisfaction with head-fi's editorial limitations and pay-per-access policies. Also changstar started out as Marv's private project, an experiment in pirate democracy which has flourished and now provides content which head-fi cannot.

There is a large overlap in online headphone communities in general and in this case many principal members of changstar personally know the principal members of head-fi. What's more, they get along personally. So the whole "thou shalt have no other forums before me" stuff isn't that serious, more of a perfunctory focus on divergent interests (including business).
« Last Edit: April 18, 2014, 05:31:47 AM by anetode »
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Head-fi is just a giant bore at this point. There's more than enough product shilling out there by the pros, I don't need to read similar accounts in a forum. I wouldn't necessarily describe HC as the KKK or SS, it's just that there's a distinct "club" there, and you're either in, or you're not. If you're not in the club, you basically have the honor of reading posts written by club members, and you'd better keep your fucking mouth shut, or else. That's not an atmosphere I find enjoyable.
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Some of us didn't wait to be banned before leaving. I was going back and forth with Jude because I had posted a link to another audio site out there and we did a little tit for tat thing and he stripped out some of my stuff. I just changed my password to something garbled in order make it arduous to get back in and thus I pulled myself out.

Every once in a while I see something over there where someone is going to abuse their wallet and waste a lot of time going the wrong direction (a direction based on factually wrong information) but I remind myself to not post. It's been over two years since I posted out there. Sometimes it's hard.
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I think if I was properly geographically located this forum would be almost all I need. Aside from looking at what's new, monitoring threads of gear I own (in case I can answer a question) and seeing the latest comedy episodes of the HD800 thread I don't really browse much there anymore. The only thing I can't get here is contact with the Dallas/Austin people for meets.
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Eh, new stuff that is good or worth noticing tends to make its way over here or at good sites like Innerfidelity eventually. I'd rather wait and have stuff filtered than be bombarded with what will mostly be junk.

Also changstar started out as Marv's private project, an experiment in pirate democracy which has flourished and now provides content which head-fi cannot.

Absolutely. What little I can provide, I tend to post here exclusively. Only place I feel I can interact with others on some level of normality, in regards to these topics, of course.
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Nevermind. I'm stupid and forgot there's a check box to turn off the ads at contributor rank. Ad free once again!  :)p1

I'm actually glad Jude worked it out for you man. 
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Thanks, Mike. I still can't figure out why Amos was throwing the book at me. A couple lapses in judgement for minor conversational jabs = ban and demotion? Crime != Punishment

Like was mentioned earlier in the thread, there seems to be no latitude for a conversation between people who disagree. People are human, emotions get involved, and as long as the jabs are only skin deep, no harm no foul, IMO. I reported someone a few weeks ago who posted some really nasty comments about someone that was WAY over the top. That's the sort of stuff that should be moderated.

Perhaps they should start looking at the reports and if they aren't harsh enough send the reporter a pm saying 'toughen up'.
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