mrpippy2
FWIW Craig, I've always found your posts to be helpful, insightful, and informative. I certainly hope you won't cut down on your posting here because some might find your explaining of a particular Cakewalk issue "defensive". I suspect it's a very small, but vocal, minority. Keep doing what you do, post however you see fit to post, and know that there's a lot of forum members who get a lot of value from reading your words. So keep it up!
Thank you. I learned a very important lesson early in life when I played a concert in Philadelphia, back in the days when cities had more than one newspaper. Two newspapers reviewed the same concert, yet one review was extremely favorable and the other was extremely negative. What's more, the elements one reviewer particularly liked were the same elements the other reviewer particularly didn't like.
That's when I realized a person's reality is defined by their perspective, which interprets and therefore
processes any data, essentially precluding objectivity. It's almost like a corollary of the "Observer Effect," which states that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the system itself. In that sense, the individual's perspective on data causes the brain to believe that the data conforms to that perspective, regardless of the nature of the data itself.
As one example of this, that's why some people see "lifetime updates" and go "Wow, cool, thanks Cakewalk" while others say "It's gotta be a scam, it's too good to be true." And that's why some people see support buckling under the load and conclude Cakewalk must not be doing well because they haven't been able to keep up support to the same level since introducing lifetime updates, while others conclude Cakewalk must be doing great if so many people are going for Platinum that it's overloading their existing support. (Actually, nothing is that simple, as explained in posts from Cakewalk staff that what's happening relates to a combination of multiple factors occurring
simultaneously. As an analogy you can close your eyes, or drive a car, and be okay. But if you close your eyes while driving a car...well, that could lead to problems
.)
Looping back to the initial story, those reviews taught me that all I could do in life was be myself - because once
anything I did entered someone else's consciousness, it became part of
their world and was now controlled by their perspectives, not mine. So it is with forum posts. The only remedy I've found is clarification, but it's only a partial remedy because as we've seen, that too will be interpreted in a way that's congruent with an individual's perspective.
Bottom line: humans are wired so that true communication is difficult. That's why we see more serial monologues than dialogues.