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AGRESSIVE HOSTILE KEYBOARD WARRIOR KNOW IT ALL S

I dont partake in forums or Facebook for the reason i believe it gives cover and a platform for all the bile malice and disrespect that some a lot of people think is acceptable i made a mistake of breaking my own rule and posted a thread in Hoffman in semi desperation with a very polite caveat that if i received a reply please dont be abusive or argumentative or disrespectful It shouldn t have to be asked even in a nice way WHAT HAVE WE THEY COME TO so sure enough the first smart alec starts WITH THE A TONE OF SMART CLEVER OBTUSE NONCHALANCE for starters etc now he and them lot might think its cool or normal but what did i just say i asked not to replied to disrespectfully my question was a valid one and furthermore i asked politely for constructive responses and i m nobodies fool the tone of this guy is likely because of poor leaders at Hoffman who allow such bad manners as a acceptable normality That s one point i have many others equally valid suffice to say don t bother posting anything its a cliche all pally pally hierarchy all know it all s and cavemen big men trying awfully hard to have some power in their likely insignificant life just like the myriad of keyboard HEAVYWEIGHTS on facebook GET SOME MANNERS AND RESPECT AND GROW UP AND THINK FUNNY AINT IT DO YOU SPEAK LIKE THAT IN THE STORE AT THE DOCTORS IN THE STREET TO YOUR FAMILY YES NO ONLY ON THE INTErNET EH I CERTAINLY DONT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM AND FACT I ASKED TO BE BANNED AS I WAS SICK AT THE THOUGHT OF BEING A MEMBER THERE OF HORRIBLE LOUTS AND FRANKLY DUBIOUS CHARACTERS IF THEIR MANNERS ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY OH MANNERS MAKETH THE MAN ALL VYING TO BE THE BIG BULLY SHOUT OUTS PATHETIC SAD FOLK IM OUT

This site is on the face of it

This site is on the face of it quite instructive and interesting for the hobbyist Unfortunately there are a couple of moderators who consider themselves to be mini gods As such they not only act in a condescending manner to any member whom they may have a disagreement with but also as stated in other reviews here are disingenuous and disrespectful For example one of the guidelines for a member to post a wanted ad in their wanted section is to stipulate how a seller who wishes to sell to the poster will get paid by the poster This is ridiculous since when does a buyer tell a seller how and what the seller has to accept for their goods The Seller is the one who should be telling the Buyer how they want to get paid not the other way around Nonetheless after pointing out this idiocy I ran afoul of their main dictator moderator and was banned from this part of the forum Now I had contributed lots of content for these guys to use with the search engines and their optimization but that is over now Plenty of other forums on the web that don t have the intention to suppress free speech

Awful place full of very strange folk

Awful place full of very strange folk who don t seem to realise there s a world outside Some incredibly rude individuals on there who seem to get away with being a-holes - one guy even dubs himself the Sultan of Snark which is actually an understatement as he is clearly with issues There s a guy who goes all Mark Chapman over Olivia Newton John of all things and desperately keeps refreshing his own thread every day So if you love music then avoid this dreadful place It really is embarrassing

A while back a jerk did a hatchet job

A while back a jerk did a hatchet job on a singer i like he wrote many lies and accusations in his post i could not find anything on google to back up the rubbish he commented I challenged him he proceded to throw wild accusations at me I resented them then i resent them now his comments are still on Herr Hoffman s website Found this story on the net Back in the day MCA Records fired Herr Hofffman it s alleged he stole mastering tapes the FBI raided his house and recovered a vast collection of tapes and metal parts all of which belonged to his former employer MCA

Morally bankrupt music forum that excuses even the most egregious conduct by musicians

Massive negativity against the Steve Hoffman forum here and I can only chime with this viewpoint having been banned by a moderator calling himself Hodgo from the UK when I pointed out on a thread that an impending CD reissue by a band with a convicted paedophile lead singer now deceased might not be prudent in light of scandals involving several other musicians and music industry figures over recent years Several other commenters on the forum defended the lead singer stating he was an ephebophile don t ask if you don t know this term suffice to say this explanation was abhorrent I expressed my disgust at this defence and was prompted permanently banned by the moderator Hodgo so we now know which side of the fence the Steve Hoffman forum sits in regarding this repellent criminal activity Ugh I am glad to be well out of it if that is their moral perspective

Misinformation Shill Honeypot

This platform is a honeypot of misinformation carefully crafted to benefit the high-end industry Those who possess a modicum of objective wisdom are promptly banned I myself wrote several posts that were both balanced and neutral in perspective grounded in technical facts However I was immediately banned from the platform It appears that any information that exposes the sly tactics employed by the so-called high-end manufacturers is not tolerated In short this platform is a disappointing waste of time

If you have a brain and value free

If you have a brain and value free speech then avoid this forum Its run like a concentration camp by despotic mods who censor anything and everything Anyone with valuable life experience will not be welcome as the site seems aimed at younger people who seem to think they are omniscient Its very pro American and anti anyone who comes from elsewhere Yes theres very good information but if you want a decent debate then forget it If the mods think you know more than they so then they will delete your posts to preserve their own powerThe forum could be very good sadly all meaningful debate is stifled due to the inherent power cravings of those that run the site Older people are certainly discriminated against as age often brings wisdomMy advise is to avoid joining the debates and just use the forum for information I don t like censorship and power games Sadly the Steve Hoffman forum is most proficient at both

A member of this forum works at Amazon

A member of this forum works at Amazon UK I posted youtube and Amazon links onto threads i received Amazon emails suggesting albums recommendations very close to the links i submitted i told the english staff member by coincidence the emails stopped four weeks later the unwanted emails started again the last couple was a crass attempt at humour I ve closed down my Amazon account i am not best pleased someone on the site working for Amazon knew my username He Made it pretty obvious the emails i was sent I have all the music i want i don t need anything else I have moved to a bigger city i can easily purchase household goods and clothes from retail outlets I ve stopped login into the forum neither am i interested reading threads You can go through recent and older topics the threads repeat themselves like a needle stuck on a record Some thick americans think music sales and artists popularity revolves around the United States naive The world is a huge place A few artists are members of the forum it s a reasonable assumption many in the music industry read the threads

Site Owner Doesn t Allow Users Having Online Anonymity

Don t register an account here with a disposable email V P N privacy-friendly internet browser and non-spyware operating system on your device Or your account will get deleted on this forums website eventually Considering all governments have been attacking human rights regarding Julian Assange and became Orwellian with their government surveillance I would rather have internet anonymity Not have my online activities be spied on from tyrants who profit from endless wars

Where are the Buddy Holly tapes

The site s namesake is someone who once worked for MCA and was fired for stealing tapes who then was barely employed for a label trying to position themselves as Mobile Fidelity s main rivals The only reason anybody knows his name is because of his endless boasting of his abilities which he s had more than ample time to do having only being asked to master a handful of records a year - and none at all for the last several and his constant trashing of every other mastering engineer In his attempts to appear to be a big player to his flock he continually tells stories that put him directly in the center of major musical events Anytime anyone attempts to correct him on one of his works of fiction they are instantly banned from the forum and all of their posts are scrubbed leaving nothing behind but glowing reviews of Hoffman s work I could go into detail about major goofs he s pulled but won t as that would take up several paragraphs however you ll never see a word of any of it on his message board because every post is monitored by one of his many moderators Highlights include banning two engineers from Mobile Fidelity for correcting his fictitious claims that he worked with the original Roy Orbison mixdown tapes Another great one is the fiction he spun for years that the version of Paul McCartney s Ram he remastered was from the original master tapes Fast forward 15 or so years and Paul McCartney puts out a deluxe reissue of said album which contains among other things scans of the original master tapes Strangely Hoffman isn t listed on the cover of the tape as ever having had access to it Being that anyone with an iota of sense gets banned because they can t keep silent about the absolutely ridiculous and easily disproven claims he makes the people left are some of the most ignorant yet bullying know-it-all types you ll ever encounter As as added bonus the forum is home to many full-on Nazis whose dog whistle posts are never disturbed yet those who attempt to call them out on their ignorance are quickly banned TL DR a nightmare of a narcissist s playground cosplaying as an informative music forum