I enjoy music and music making and gear *instead* of politics and drama. Having to endure listening to such crap in such high volume here ruins what ought to be an escape. Isn't there enough of that everywhere else? Even I am guilty of it as a reaction to the same crap.
I wish all drama and politics were confined to dedicated threads/subfora like the Zone, wholly separate of gear talk, about, you know, the gear, and making music with the, you know, mother effing gear, on you know, GEAR slutzzzzz.
It isn't Ethics Slutz, Business Slutz, or Moaning Slutz. Please take that elsewhere, the Zone, etc.
Please. I nearly beg you. Contain yourself. Don't subject everyone to you personal agenda/moaning.
I think the randomness, the democracy of ideas -- and noises -- is what gives the forum a sense of human interest ...
One thing that could help cut down some of the noise is starting the practice of creating a pre-release thread (like this one) and then a separate release thread ... It's been done before but I think making it a standard thing would result in easier-to-manage threads once the synth/product actually becomes available and the speculatory posts are not relevant anymore ...