Originally posted by travlin'easy:
When I first arrived at this forum there was a free exchange of valuable information that benefitted everyone.
Every post seems to be nothing more than a daily pissing contest
For now, I have removed the Synthzone from my browser. If anyone needs assistance you'll find me at the PSR Tutorial or SVPWorld.
Gary, I am sorry to hear this from you. I truly don't want to lose your musical expertise and sound advice from this forum.
But I think you are exaggerating a little. When I look at "every post" they don't fall into the category you mention.
kla4 and Gary I understand there have been some antagonistic threads recently. I walk a fine line between hard nosed censorship and absolute liberal freedom. Both are bad in my eyes so I try to find a mid ground that will please the majority of users ( as well as being palatable to me ). I pretty much let all of you establish guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't. Disagreement IS allowed. How you guys personally handle disagreement is completely up to you. It's the same here the same as it is face to face. The only difference is that contact is virtual not physical. I think people would be a lot more restrained if they were talking face to face and the threat of physical confrontation was more real. I don't even wait for people to get to that stage before I delete their postings or close a thread. I can tell very easily that a thread has become futile and has begun to spiral out of control. But it would be wrong for me to prematurely jump in and stop or remove a thread. Many people would have something to say about that.
I run the forums here as fairly as I can. I really don't think you will find much better elsewhere. It is human nature in an online world and I don't think that will change wherever you go. Sure you can probably find a more heavily censored forum but I don't know if that is really where you'd be happy.
I hope you continue to visit here even if you aren't as comfortable posting at present.
[This message has been edited by Nigel (edited 07-24-2006).]