Your votes please

[Filterlab]

Your thoughts please gentlemen, and in the interests of pure membership feedback, admin and mods should not vote on this poll.

Cheers.

[Steve Toy]

I voted for the second option but this refers more to the ADM9s/Apple love-in than AVI in general, a company reputed for excellent high fidelity components including amps, speakers and CD players.

Oh dear I voted but I acknowledge my vote and where it went for the purposes of counting later.

"Where specifically addressed" should mean responses to "I want to upgrade the music coming from my computer" not simply "I want to upgrade (part of) my hi-fi."

I will say that the restriction really should take the form of a gentlemen's agreement rather than a more formal limitation.

[Filterlab]

...and in the interests of pure membership feedback, admin and mods should not vote on this poll.

Obviously not loud enough.

That's ok mate, the final count will be tell-tale enough.

[enbee23]

As I see it, there should be more options on the poll.
This is what I would do and why:

AVI should be afforded the same rights as all other manufacturers, even though they (AVI) have repeatedly abused the tolerance of every forum they have joined.

For a marketeer, Ashley seems to have a very poor grasp of how to positively interact with other people. More to the point, he seems to have completely lost sight of the fact that PEOPLE, ie. the customers or even just the potential customers (even those with views different from his own) are the most important part of this game, not some theoretical engineering ideal. Hope springs eternal...

jcb, on the other hand appears to be nothing more than a puffed up self important hanger on and does no good to AVI or himself. If only he could see himself as others see him. Hope has left the building.

I would allow him posting rights on any subject except AVI or their products unless in direct response to a specific query from another non AVI-affiliated forum member.

[Filterlab]

...I would allow him posting rights on any subject except AVI or their products unless in direct response to a specific query from another non AVI-affiliated forum member.

Which is essentially option two. Obviously whatever the outcome there will be moderation on subsequent posts to check that everything stays within the restriction as voted. I could have added many more options but three simple and clear options is plenty to gauge a feeling.

[Filterlab]

Four options now, one has just been added.

[enbee23]

Sorry, should have been clearer:
Option 1 for Ashley/AVI, option 2 for jcblurb.

[Filterlab]

Ahh, I see what you mean now.

[Marco]

Could we ask that all members vote, please?

There are enough options I would hope to satisfy everyone.

We have 175 members now and I would really like as many people to vote as possible as it's the only way to get a true reflection of current feeling on this matter.

So let's see plenty of voting on this issue, please.

Marco.

[enbee23]

Ahh, I see what you mean now.

Personally I would have said option 2 (or 3!) for both as I am heartily sick of reading their tag-team BS all over the interweb. Their tantrums earlier today tell the whole world what kind of people they truly are, underneath those "nice old English buffer" exteriors...

However... AVI is a manufacturer and this forum sets its stall by giving manufacturers a place to say their piece. So AVI has to get option 1. I just wish Ashley would wind his neck in a little...