This place can be very cliquish...dare I say, hiveish, and downright vicious a lot of the times.
I remember when I first joined I innocently made a casual observation that the press release announcing the Achtung Baby reissue made no mention of a remaster. I speculated (accurately, as it turns out), that this was probably a pretty good clue that there was not going to be a remaster, at least in the way the other releases were remastered, and that at most they'd make it louder.
What followed was a vicious, pack like attack on me by a number of long-time members here who basically called me an idiot for even suggesting that U2 wouldn't do a full remaster of AB. Naturally as someone only interested in peace and civil dialogue, always kept my responses fact-based and polite. Nonetheless, the personal attacks, name calling and wishes for my untimely demise from many on here continued for months and I multiple threads. So that was my "welcome" to Interference.
Curiously, after the record was released and it was not, in fact, a remaster, most of these people either stopped talking about it or engaged in embarrassing attempts to redefine what they said or what the definition of "remaster" is. Some people even commented that Edge was wrong when he said the record wasn't remastered. And, of course, the personal attacks continued by people who couldn't begin to admit they were wrong. By the time it was all over, if I recall correctly there were even a few bannings and suspensions out of the whole thing.
Having said that, while @U2 is probably a little more polite, and a more attractive website, this place is certainly a lot more entertaining.
My thoughts exactly.
