Sonar Platinum

I'm sure staff will come along soon to patiently repeat what is all over this forum if you took even one minute to bother.  I'm not staff, so I can be more of an a-hole about it.  BYE.  i can understand being cynical.  I have Platinum and i still maintain some cynicism and wait and see attitude. If you took a second, you would see you still have the option to purchase just as you have in the past, but you are too stuck on your rhetoric to bother. It smells of trolling, but i will give benefit of doubt that that you used Cakewalk products for over 20 years and decided now was the time to throw away a 20+ year relationship without bothering to look at the facts.  Some people dump spouses after decades of marriage over toothpaste so i don't underestimate the stupidity of my fellow man. If you wan to just have a botch rant and leave without at least having a closer look at what you are ranting, BYE. I might one day decide this is not for me, but I hope i have the sense to know what i am actually ticked off at.

lludwick@nyc.rr.com
I don't think it is wise to have such a strong reaction and to throw the "BYE" card out there because the boards here and at most other software sites represent the tip of the iceberg in terms of the user base. It makes it seem like the site might be too much of a fan boy accretion.
 
From the short while I have been here, I have found the forum user base to be very helpful. It would probably be best to tell the poster to sit back and cool off for a while.

People like you are great. You encourage tolerance and patience, and express your views well. I wish there were more people like you on this planet.
 
However, in this case, we have a troll who has been coming in here multiple times a day for several days, using multiple alts and saying the same thing - "I've been a Cakewalk user for years, this is a blatant ripoff, Cakewalk are liars, it's a subscription program where you don't get to keep what you own [false]. etc. etc." Then he usually graduates to self-exploding arguments. In one of his most recent ones he linked to an article that totally undermined what he said. He has no interest in a dialog, and has some kind of libelous and defamatory agenda for reasons I cannot fathom. His mind is made up, so he is on a fruitless search to prove that he's right. Because he's wrong, this search could go on forever. This has been pointed out by numerous people, even including some who are uncomfortable with the model of software ownership (not rental) and distribution that Cakewalk has proposed.
 
He has been doing this for a while, since Tuesday IIRC. All his alts are users with a handful of posts, and they share common ISPs, among which he rotates. He has graduated to ISPs that are more difficult to trace than the ones he was using several days ago, and flatters himself by thinking he's clever to be able to do this. He is basically attempting to do a low-level denial of service attack and prevent an intelligent debate from occurring.
 
The only change in his MO was he has stopped saying how crappy Cakewalk software is when people called him on why didn't he come to the forums or contact tech support so he could get them resolved.
 
Those who have been on these boards the past few days are pretty fed up, as am I. His constant trolling and saying the same thing over and over and over and over again prevents those who have legitimate questions and concerns from finding the answers among his drivel.
 
There is a very, very slim chance that this is indeed a new member to the forums. However, it would require someone using similar domains, with a similar writing style, use of the same general vocabulary, and having the exact same opinions as the self-admitted troll (one of his user names was "Trolleater.")
 
I love your attitude, but I'm 99.9% sure this person doesn't deserve it.