In a few words, what is your "role" on Talk Classical?

revdrdave said:

"To keep my head down..." That pretty much sums it up for me as well. Not the role I envisioned when I joined but early on I happened to make a comment about Toscanini to the effect that I found his interpretations cold and hard-driven. Someone immediately responded that he nearly decided to ignore my comment given that "it wasn't worth responding to" because I obviously had no idea what I was talking about given that, clearly, I'd never actually listened to any Toscanini, but he couldn't, after all, let such an ignorant remark go unaddressed.

Ouch. I'm not particularly thin-skinned but that wasn't the experience I was hoping to have on this forum. I then began to notice how threads that began with good intentions deteriorated into criticisms of the OP and ad hominem attacks on the individual who began the thread (or others who responded to the thread). If you don't like the thread, I wondered, why not just ignore it and move on? Or if you must disagree, do so without being disagreeable?

Consequently, while I now visit TC virtually every day and continue to find things of interest and enlightenment--not to mention amusement--I rarely post. Indeed, I, too, often think about raising my hand to speak...but then reconsider.

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