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Is it just me, or do you also have a feeling that this place has turned to a playground recently?

Recently?

The simple solution is to choose which posts to participate in and duck out when they take a wrong turn.

Not more than usual.

Although maybe I've just been fortunate not to click on some things....

BTW I've sometimes thought of that metaphor too, because there's one member in particular who likes to throw mud on things.

Sometimes the politeness (or lack of?) on this board reminds me of Youtube though...

Gee, I thought this thread would be about how much fun it was!

Be the change you want to see. Start interesting topics and make substantive contributions. Above all: ignore whoever you don't like. Because of the way the forum lists its topics, any attention you give them provides energy to the childish, the petty, the name-callers.

-J

So? Who doesn't need a playground?

Hakki, this seems rather bitchy of you.

Like any discussion board, there is a signal to noise ratio, no surprise there.

When there is a topic I feel I have something concrete to contribute, I post. But sometimes certain topics are just a way of having fun, sort of relaxing, so why miss out? That can be fun too!

I also find it interesting that a number of members who I respect -gooddog, Mark, Kuanpiano, beet31425, Frycek (I don't have a history with the others)- have posted here.

Hakki, not to worry. I always read your posts, and thank-you for being a member here.

As the others above have said...pick and choose what topics you participate in. And help keep the level of discussion high by starting quality topics. I mostly read these days, but every once in a while I have something to start a topic about.

Full moon, probably. Should calm down, now.

MORE, MORE!

Maybe a topic about Mark's post count?

Why are you so uptight? Geez, it's an online forum, lighten up.

I guess you mean how I've slowed down....

BTW you might be interested to click on the sig....

Well, we all play the piano...

I'm new here so I don't know what it was like before, but I kind of like the feel this forum has. Granted, the forums I've participated in the most previously to this are the Rap & Hip-hop and Rock & Pop sections of Yahoo Answers, a couple of Guitar Hero forums, and a forum for playing mafia online (it's a popular logic game, more often played in person). So I'm probably used to this absence of uptightness.
I mean I just posted a topic about iTunes organization that had nothing to do with the section I posted it in, really, but I felt like I was in the right when someone came in the thread just to ask me how it relates to playing the piano at all. Call me an iconoclast.

Makes sense -- mafia has always relied on 'logic,' often very much in person.


OK, but I might forget sometimes and call you evilpacman.

I remember when I first learned the word (in school) -- it was exciting because a few days later, they had it on Jeopardy.

Pianist playground would serve alliterative purposes nicely. Maybe someone should change that.

Please don't. (just erased a rather lengthy reply here)