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I find the way this discussion was successfully stifled - highly disturbing and in essence amoral.

Several mods in here used hyperbolic means effectively to make this a theoretical discussion between two camps. Amazon haters, and bored prolongers of a (questionable) status quo, who "had seen this pattern before".

It never was. The factual discussion based on details alongside Amazons new fileformat - and how bloggers as well as this community failed en large to educate readers on what happened with the introduction of .kfx by Amazon was demoted as a whole - I feel, by letting the discussion escalate into personal mattes (very emotionally charged), and the contemplation of "two fronts". Witch arent existent.

The, from my point of view, fake representation that there are two "camps" of people in here (structured in a way where the side challenging the established (but in parts - factually wrong) views would always have to argue that they hadnt nefarious motivations) was then constantly repeated by high reputation accounts - establishing the narrative.

Once that was done - and people started reacting to being marginalized even to the point of namecalling -

- some users then started to reframe the purpose of this thread and what it would be allowed and shouldn't be allowed to tackle.

.kfx wouldnt be able to be discussed in here - not even the parts where the monopoly of creation on part of Amazon impacted directly on freedoms of final layout - or trying to dismiss the falsely established notion of .kfx only being a distribution format - and therefore nothing, the normal public should be concerned with.

.kfx should purposely not be discussed in the context of a "powershift" - and especially not in here - as there were "other threads".

Those of course werent linked.

It was stated, that there would be a consensus - that .kfx "should be seen more neutrally" - and that such a discussion (on the file format level) had taken place within this group of people, in other threads, in the past. It hasnt.

The way this community treated .kfx until recently was to look at it as a "fun and exciting challenging riddle" that - as time went by - and the notion set in, that it probably wouldnt be easy to reverse engineer it as well - simply was ignored in the general discussion. While its propagation within the market is steadily increasing.

I also didnt ignore parts of the discussion because of the language barrier - I chose to react to counterarguments selectively and often with days in between postings, in an effort to let the discussion "cool of" in the periods in between - to become more factual and less ego driven, emotional or personal.

You can look at the postings above to see how well that has turned out.

In an effort to get back on to the factual level (which might require to talk about the design philosophy of the .kfx format, if people try to argue it is distribution related only) - I let this stand as a reflection on what this discussion was made into within the last two pages.

I will now try to pick up from the arguments and reactions two pages back.