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Post by whitefang on Aug 5, 2019 9:49:58 GMT -5
It’s been a month, how do you guys think it has been going? I know the GP alternate shut down the other day. We could set up a forum at the new MPN that could cover the areas we have here, and have a potentially larger community and audience, as well as integration with the other subjects already over there. What do you guys think? So far I am in for whatever the consensus is. I really do not look at the other MPN forums, only Guitar Player. But whatever happens, I will stick here as well if it keeps running. If you decide to shut this one down and open over there at MPN I will attend. Or you can consolidate the Message, Music and Instrument "rooms" which would be OK with me. Whatever the consensus is. Well, as you know DBM... If this all moves and blends in with MPN, that leaves me SOL. Unless an amnesty is declared. Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2019 14:40:07 GMT -5
So far I am in for whatever the consensus is. I really do not look at the other MPN forums, only Guitar Player. But whatever happens, I will stick here as well if it keeps running. If you decide to shut this one down and open over there at MPN I will attend. Or you can consolidate the Message, Music and Instrument "rooms" which would be OK with me. Whatever the consensus is. Well, as you know DBM... If this all moves and blends in with MPN, that leaves me SOL. Unless an amnesty is declared. Whitefang I will try and intercede for you amigo. Maybe they will let you in in on another forum without GP but I will ask to reinstate you there. There are a few cranks who do not forgive or forget, but I began to miss you over there right away. I will do what I can.......
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Post by jmuscara on Aug 5, 2019 15:46:35 GMT -5
What this all about then? It doesn't look like you're banned, right whitefang?
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Post by whitefang on Aug 6, 2019 9:33:24 GMT -5
Yep j, seems some can't take(or understand) good natured "ribbing" (or "jagging"), took it too serious and out I went. But not all of it was good natured, as there were some members( one in particular) that gave me a lot of grief and I kept giving it back. But the guy I'm referring to would often rag on others who seemed(to him) to refuse to respond to his threads in a way he thought they should. I don't know if he's still there or not. But DBM( Desertbluesman) is interceding for me, which I appreciate hugely, and hopefully I'll get back to the iNet home I've had for near 20 or so years. But too, I will admit to going too far overboard on Jim's "guitar player" forum, but got the boot about the same time I switched gears and tried to diffuse things. Whitefang
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Post by jmuscara on Aug 6, 2019 10:41:18 GMT -5
Lessons learned, eh?
I think many, perhaps most of us have done things online where we went too far. I know I have. I'm very unlikely to do that again.
Personally, I'd like to consolidate what we have here with MPN, but that's just me. I do think we can make it work. We'd have to decide if we wanted any new topic area(s) or if we can just use what's already there. Some of the general subjects might fit in SSS (there are two active threads there now about cover songs; I could see our threads about songs with same titles or songs that motivate being in there). The only stuff I might wonder about is the stuff about harmonica playing.
I think if we all just started posting over there it might just work. Also, whitefang, you could post in areas besides GP for now. I doubt the guy you had problems with is in the other fora. And if he's not in GP, why not post there too?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2019 12:59:41 GMT -5
DBM( Desertbluesman) is interceding for me, which I appreciate hugely, No answer yet, I pvt messaged A String. So far no response.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2019 15:25:51 GMT -5
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Post by jbone on Aug 7, 2019 5:34:55 GMT -5
As for harp content, I take it there is none over there. But here's not a whole lot here either and I have had a good time just the same. I can post on a general topic forum there and maybe there would be some interest, but my focus is also about live playing, history of given genres, matters of voice, and the pursuit of live gigs too. While I am a harp guy I'm also a singer, band member, duo member, writer, promoter(of our stuff), and fan. If an opportunity presents to share my experience on any of these topics I'm glad to chime in.
I have history with some of you that goes back several years and I don't want to lose friends!
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Post by whitefang on Aug 7, 2019 10:07:33 GMT -5
That doesn't work either DBM. They're insistent on this "passive/aggressive" insult thing( without offering an explanation as to what it means). Or at least having enough common courtesy to explain why they clamped down the ban the day AFTER my last two posts contained nothing of the sort. Even on Craig's "String Network" forum HE couldn't offer a clear definition of what a "passive/aggressive" insult is. And besides... Anything I've done on that forum is MILD compared to what we at the TCM forum pass back and forth to each other. And NObody whines to the mods, or threatens to take their ball and go home. They just give back, often as good as they get. Either that or just let it "in one ear" (so to speak) "out the other" or just ignore it and make like they never noticed and not respond. It all soon wears off and although it likely will happen again, there's long periods of it's absence in between. After all(and IMHO) these forums aren't kindergarten classrooms, and the mods shouldn't be Napoleonic disciplinarians. The mods there are more concerned( and overly it seems) with language and content. Often moving threads to another page if the content seems more suited to it(like to the "off topic" page they have for all the political and other non movie related topics some wish to prattle about). Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 11:48:09 GMT -5
whitefang Well A String never got back to me on my request to give you another chance.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 8, 2019 9:47:28 GMT -5
Gotta wonder....
Since I doubt you did anything to offend him, one has to wonder why that lack of courtesy to you. Or let's just hope that either way it's because he's tied up time-wise. Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2019 12:08:47 GMT -5
Or let's just hope that either way it's because he's tied up time-wise. Whitefang I guess so.
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Post by surfergirl on Aug 8, 2019 12:48:01 GMT -5
Might want to reconsider moving to MPN. All of the videos have been deleted and we are currently unable to post any.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2019 13:28:26 GMT -5
Might want to reconsider moving to MPN. All of the videos have been deleted and we are currently unable to post any. surfergirl I never watched many video's over there at MPN, and I never posted a video in all my years over there, although I have posted links to videos many times.
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Post by jmuscara on Aug 9, 2019 7:18:15 GMT -5
Might want to reconsider moving to MPN. All of the videos have been deleted and we are currently unable to post any. No, they have NOT been deleted. For one, they're simply hosted at Youtube and shared at MPN forums. Second, the admins are aware of the problem and they are working on it. It looks like it happened with the upgrade to the latest version of the forum software, which also gave us https and a secure site. forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/3002396/broken-youtube-links
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