Beepster
In my experience the people who spout variations of this rhetorical phrasing are generally the whiniest, "snowflakiest", delicate little flowers around.

+10000000

jackn2mpu
 
If you work for Gibson and post on a Cakewalk forum you are the face to whom people respond and in this case that's CW. Doesn't matter who signs Anderton's paycheck.

So you get to define who Craig Anderton is, eh?
Fun! Do me next!! (fingers crossed I'm an astronaut.)

That's enough, please.
 
Bob Bone

I am a member of various forums on the net, and some are very strict about forum rules, such as focusing in the topic at hand, not on other members.  I have had posts deleted on these other forums, for responding to attacks, which I understand and appreciate.
 
I have also enjoyed the tolerance and generally peaceable atmosphere of these Cakewalk forums.
 
But I just cannot fathom that anybody would attack Craig Anderton for sharing his knowledge, and opinions with us, on his own time!
 
I have been reading Craig's articles for years, and learn something from each and every one.  His musical accomplishments are what most of us could only wish to aspire to!  It is a sad day to see negative detractors show blatant disrespect to such an accomplished member of this community.
 
Perhaps it is time to start enforcing bans on individuals who cannot conform to forum etiquette.

abacab
I am a member of various forums on the net, and some are very strict about forum rules, such as focusing in the topic at hand, not on other members.  I have had posts deleted on these other forums, for responding to attacks, which I understand and appreciate.
 
I have also enjoyed the tolerance and generally peaceable atmosphere of these Cakewalk forums.
 
But I just cannot fathom that anybody would attack Craig Anderton for sharing his knowledge, and opinions with us, on his own time!
 
I have been reading Craig's articles for years, and learn something from each and every one.  His musical accomplishments are what most of us could only wish to aspire to!  It is a sad day to see negative detractors show blatant disrespect to such an accomplished member of this community.
 
Perhaps it is time to start enforcing bans on individuals who cannot conform to forum etiquette.

+ 1

its a shame that a vocal minority can have such an influence on this forum. Over the years there have been many good people who who just can't tolerate it anymore and have to leave for good or take regular breaks from this forum.

What a spineless hurtful bunch of humans you are. Of course you don't care. In this self entitled world, the discord left in your wake is just a bi product of your uncontrolled minds and mouths. I often wonder how these conversations would go without being able to hide behind the anonymity of this forum.

It's shameful and I don't see why you aren't banned if for no other reason that you don't contribute to the forum.

There I've said it.

mudgel
its a shame that a vocal minority can have such an influence on this forum. Over the years there have been many good people who who just can't tolerate it anymore and have to leave for good or take regular breaks from this forum.

What a spineless hurtful bunch of humans you are. Of course you don't care. In this self entitled world, the discord left in your wake is just a bi product of your uncontrolled minds and mouths. I often wonder how these conversations would go without being able to hide behind the anonymity of this forum.

It's shameful and I don't see why you aren't banned if for no other reason that you don't contribute to the forum.

There I've said it.

Well said.

jackn2mpu
 
...Anderton may be a valued member of this forum; if only he produced that same value with Gibson/Cakewalk and not only 10-15%. When someone puts themselves out as a face of Gibson/Cakewalk they had better be able to produce answers to questions liked asked about in this thread other than to say what was said. 

This whole conversation appears to be based on a misunderstanding. Craig isn't here as a representative of Cakewalk, or even of Gibson. Craig was a SONAR user long before he went to work for Gibson. He'd be here offering advice even if his day job was as a doorman at Trump Tower.

mudgel
its a shame that a vocal minority can have such an influence on this forum. Over the years there have been many good people who who just can't tolerate it anymore and have to leave for good or take regular breaks from this forum.

robert_e_bone
That's enough, please.

 
I would fully support pro-active management of the SONAR forum.
 
If a post is NOT directly related to the product or application in the OP, it should be deleted. Or moved to the Coffee House. Or create a new forum and call it Cage Fight.
 
Case in point. This thread is titled "what happened to the mac version?" yet as of this post, 50% of the comments have NOTHING to do with the topic. NOTHING.  (Including this post, btw...)

This forum has been a notably useful resource for getting the most out of SONAR with a nice mix of problem solving and relevant insight into general usage.
 
Unfortunately the value has been increasingly diminished by OT comments metastasizng into personal attacks with collateral damage to a significant amount of good will. Social scientists may characterize it as a side effect of a FB mentality (or whatever), but trying to find something useful in a thread has become a rather tedious chore.
 
The forum is a Cakewalk branded asset. I appreciate their openness (more so than some other companies) but they are under no obligation to support a "freedom of speech" platform for those who feel their OT comments provide value as an "objective public service announcement" or "dissenting POV". I use competing products. So what? Other than Feature Requests, it's irrelevant to using THIS product. And as for the tone and nature of some of the posts, just smh. 
 
Perhaps pro-active management of the SONAR forum should be a Feature Request? I expect the 80/20 rule would do quite nicely.

jackson white
The forum is a Cakewalk branded asset.

 
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