My understanding is that WBF was a substantially subjectivist forum at its origin. It was senior, experienced, highly-respected subjectivist members who became disillusioned last year with the direction of, and bickering on, WBF and who left WBF, I believe, to the detriment of WBF.
Ron, the disenchantment as I have repeatedly mentioned happened in 2014. That was due to in-fighting between subjectivists leading to departure of Myles, Mep, and others. Yes those two come back for a brief period last summer but the damage to their loyalty (in both directions) was done then with no involvement from me. That is when we lost most of our subjectivists if you want to call it that.
At our inception, this was a very balanced forum as it should have been given who I am and who Steve is. We had Ron Party and Tim as super moderators and we hosted a number of industry luminaries on the science and objectivity side such as Dr. Sean Olive of Harman (outgoing president of Audio Engineering Society).
http://www.whatsbestforum.com/forumdisplay.php?233-Science-In-The-Service-Of-Art-Dr-Sean-Olive. Likewise Ethan Winer was invited to have his own forum here just like Dr. Olive. And Earl Geddes who uses a Pioneer AVR has his amplifier for its speakers. All of these with open arms, cooperation and acceptance of Steve.
Today we still have Frantz, myself, Ron, Tim, Tom, etc. who have been here for the duration. But have lost many objectivists including the above and witty members like Terryj.
What is different now is an atmosphere of intolerance has developed for anything to do with audio science and objective look at what we hear. This is new.
I think a "takeover" of WBF by objectivists should be repelled. I do not see why the subjectivists, very likely a majority of the members here, should be herded into a corral.
Ron, there is maybe 1% of the objectivists post today than what it was two years ago. We had the gods of objectivity here battling. We had my chief architect, JJ who doesn't get more of an objectivist and luminary banned by Steve/Tom. Almost everyone is gone.
What is going on now is the audio equiv. of ethnic cleansing. Folks now want to get rid of all objectivists including me. And over what? Some hobby? Do we not share the love of music? Do we not share the love of high fidelity execution? How can we want to be so unkind to our fellow hobbyist as to ask for their extinction in this forum? How do we live with ourselves after that?
Ron, you set the model and example for how subjectivists should act. You are professional, kind hearted and informative. Please don't join the ill-intentioned crew based on faulty information given to you. I would not take any action that I have taken without the truth on my side.
There has been no influx of objectivists here. One look at this forum and you see a sea of subjectivists. And no open invitation to come and fight. And someone like me to keep them in check. So the usual crowd that comes for a fist fight is not here. You can't appreciate what a major accomplishment this is.
Now compare that to our subjectivists crew here which in open forum and closed repeatedly feels comfortable to throw rocks around. Ah the forum has been destroyed. Ah it is Amir's fault. Ah I don't want to see another graph. Ah I don't care what you have to say, you don't trust your ears. Ah, you are a joke. Ah, you don't have expensive enough system.
When do we step back and say how we want to come across as human beings first, and warring factions second? Is this how we conduct ourselves in public? We go to a party and demand that all democrats leave the room so that the republicans can have their food and drink when the two hosts are republican and democrats?
Please Ron, help me solve this problem. What you just said unintentionally will cause this friction to continue forever. I have created a forum just like you want the whole forum to be. It will exactly what you guys say the larger forum should be. Let's see you guys use it. That should be the end of it. Not aiming for the larger battle victory of throwing the few objectivist friends we have left overboard.