Fanboi mania still alive and well on the Sonar Facebook group

Just got a tongue lashing from the moderator for mentioning Sonar's bugs and stability issues in response to someone claiming that Sonar's only problem was "poor marketing." Got the usual "why are you here, I don't even recall you ever being helpful" when in fact I've helped people out with problems on many occasions (and also have spent hundreds of hours beta testing). These people are truly deranged, it's sad to see. All this "well Sonar works great for me and I never see a single bug so you must obviously be doing something wrong" crap is why people left the Sonar community in droves. Where does this mentality come from? Is it just emotion or what? LOL!

Yeah I know - I just thought that while I'm still using Sonar (which I'm forced to do until I can complete my unfinished projects), I might as well still take part in the community, and the thing is I've helped loads of people out in those groups or otherwise chimed in when people are having problems, which I've always been happy to do if I can. Some of the fanbois are just plain nasty though. 

Yeah I've noticed that whenever the subject of Sonar comes up on other forums like KVR or Gearslutz, there are a lot of people saying that the fanaticism and emotion on the Sonar forum contributed to them jumping ship. The idea that by talking about issues and complaints that you're somehow "letting the side down" is a huge turn off for many. 

Fakebook is the debbil I tells ya.

Social media is bad for society, I'm convinced.  I kind of fall in line with Jordan Peterson on the matter, but I'm a little more convinced than he is.  
 
I don't much about others' experiences with Cakewalk, but I do have a sentimental connection with the DAW.  I think it's because when I first got Cakewalk 2 decades ago ( or more...f*&k I'm old ) it was just such a recording liberation.  I had been using Tascam 4 track recorders and this computer based recording thing was a whole new thing to me, and to the musicians I played with.  I had to use this forum to figure anything out because no one knew anything about this stuff.  
 
It blew my whole music world wide open.  Suddenly, all of these songs in my head, over all those years, could be fully realized.  MIDI provided all the instruments I couldn't afford and couldn't play and I could layer the hell out of these songs and really show people what was going on in my head.  It was so gratifying and ate up all my time for the next 20 years. 
 
I never ventured out enough to even really discover there were other DAWs.  I thought Pro Tools was for Mac, and Cakewalk was for PC.  I thought Cubase was a Johnny come lately.  I was in a little cocoon and had no idea.  But, it was ok really, because it did everything I needed and I would have never switched anyway. Didn't need to.
 
Anyways...I'm sure that's NOT why others are fanboys of Cakewalk, but it's certainly why I'm sentimental about it and hate that its dead.  

social media is certainly changing society - as is the internet generally - but whether it turns out to be good or bad i think we've yet to see

I'm not sure why some here think the issue is Facebook, whatever Jordan Peterson says (and I generally agree with him on most stuff). Kids being addicted to social media isn't what I'm talking about here, and not everyone who uses Facebook is addicted to it any more than anyone here is addicted to this forum. So I think we're shifting the focus here, lol. Fanboism is the same whether on Facebook or here on this forum.

sharke
I'm not sure why some here think the issue is Facebook, whatever Jordan Peterson says (and I generally agree with him on most stuff). Kids being addicted to social media isn't what I'm talking about here, and not everyone who uses Facebook is addicted to it any more than anyone here is addicted to this forum. So I think we're shifting the focus here, lol. Fanboism is the same whether on Facebook or here on this forum.

Oh come on... surely it's much better to blame something else or somebody else! The forums and Sonar is perfect in every way !!

ampfixer
Social media is a perfect platform for people that want to tell others how to think and those that need to be told how to think. It's a mob mentality. People post stuff that they would never dare to post if their gang wasn't lurking behind their backs.
I think it's great that we can communicate easily with friends and family but after that it's a disaster. I really feel it's pushing society backward in terms of behaviour and manners. It's also the #1 tool of terrorists and political disruptors.

But you see exactly the same sort of thing on any forum, not just FB and Twitter.