In Praise of our Wonderful Moderators!!!
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- Garthplinko
- gettin' sounds
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My experience: I had a message board on my site about our (generally shitty) local underground music scene for a few years and left it unmoderated for a long time with only the occaisonal flare ups.
Then the assholes showed up. They made lots of rascist/homophobic remarks and diatribes thereby driving away lots of the people that came to discuss music etc. I was bitterly forced to decide how I felt about who the message board belonged to, what purpose it served, and confront personal feelings about what freedom of speech really meant.
In the end, we shut the thing down because the drama was working against the real intent of what it served: fostering a music community in our area. Helping each other out. Creating positive networking environment.
If I were to do it again, I would have very clear preset guidelines about appropriate content and moderators to make sure this was happening. I think the moderators here are doing a VERY good job not being too heavy handed by deleting the posts of internet trolls on a whim (example: the "thin compressor" post). Believe me, the last thing any moderator wants to do (and I say this from experience) is have some ridiculous confrontation on the internet.
If you don't like how the "cops" work here, I'll say what I said to the people that ruined my website: Start your own. You're not entitled to this message board, you're a guest, just like everyone else.
Then the assholes showed up. They made lots of rascist/homophobic remarks and diatribes thereby driving away lots of the people that came to discuss music etc. I was bitterly forced to decide how I felt about who the message board belonged to, what purpose it served, and confront personal feelings about what freedom of speech really meant.
In the end, we shut the thing down because the drama was working against the real intent of what it served: fostering a music community in our area. Helping each other out. Creating positive networking environment.
If I were to do it again, I would have very clear preset guidelines about appropriate content and moderators to make sure this was happening. I think the moderators here are doing a VERY good job not being too heavy handed by deleting the posts of internet trolls on a whim (example: the "thin compressor" post). Believe me, the last thing any moderator wants to do (and I say this from experience) is have some ridiculous confrontation on the internet.
If you don't like how the "cops" work here, I'll say what I said to the people that ruined my website: Start your own. You're not entitled to this message board, you're a guest, just like everyone else.
"Just because you don't like it don't mean it ain't no good."
Even tho the board is worse now, there's the occasional good post/thread.mjau wrote:In all sincerity - take this as a point of departure for discussion - why are you still here then?joeysimms wrote:This must be a joke, yeah?? Praise the cops?
My post here is in praise to the last tapeop messageboard, the one that worked and was good. This one no worky so well.
beware bee wear
- rhythm ranch
- mixes from purgatory
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- Joined: Wed May 07, 2003 8:45 pm
- Location: Corrales, NM
There's too many forums now, it was better when there was just general recording. the 'mega'board option looks horrible.rhythm ranch wrote:What is it about the new board that you think is "worse".
It's nearly impossible to have a discussion about 'recording techniques' that does not involve 'gear talk', and vice versa..
beware bee wear
true, but i dont think there's anything wrong with a little crosstalk. i wasnt a huge fan of the specialization of the boards when it happened, but I think its kind of cool now. If you make a thread that has implications in terms of both gear and technique, your decision to place it in one or the other forum will affect what kind of responses you will likely get. same with the computer forum. its just one way to focus things a little morejoeysimms wrote:
It's nearly impossible to have a discussion about 'recording techniques' that does not involve 'gear talk', and vice versa..
I really like it better this way because it distingushes TOMB from gearslutz. I like gearslutz and check in over there too but for different reasons than the TOMB.joeysimms wrote:There's too many forums now, it was better when there was just general recording. the 'mega'board option looks horrible.rhythm ranch wrote:What is it about the new board that you think is "worse".
It's nearly impossible to have a discussion about 'recording techniques' that does not involve 'gear talk', and vice versa..
- joelpatterson
- carpal tunnel
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- Joined: Tue Jun 10, 2003 5:20 pm
- Location: Albany, New York
wow, ive never really payed much attention to it till doc said something. Man that line is annoying, now its all i can look at.
My music
- TapeOpHillary
- TapeOp Admin
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http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=28085
the response was uncanny.
funny how things go in 1 year cycles...
http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=28085
the response was uncanny.
funny how things go in 1 year cycles...
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