Hmmm,
I don't know how anyone could make Audio servers particularly funny, I took the warning as 'not a serious debate topic' rather than 'beware of rib breakage from laughter' kind of thing..
On one hand I would say this being Backstage with its disclaimer title isn't really going to be apparently visible to a forum newbie and perhaps there should be a sub-forum for debates or intellectual sparring (with appropriate guardrails) that would keep some of the now constant squabbling out of the main topics because in my opinion that is getting to be a real problem but also people with no connection to the OP topic at all on posting 'just because' is a very different but also degrading of quality problem we're facing here.
A agree with @nils this is becoming a tiring place to visit on the daily, I had been away for a while and coming back this week has been an eye-opener. When I see someone new like @Carl Irwin(as a recent example) post very generally helpful and well prepared material and watch that degenerate so quickly into an off-topic mess we are generally going to (a) lose and (b) not likely to gain future valuable contributors.