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i checked it out and that forum is already moderated, and has been since last summer. the rules apple quoted have been there for quite a long time and have nothing to do with elena or any other recent arrivals.

i also looked at the supposedly criminal post by elena, and i find it quite accurate in its characterizations.

get over it, jolly, larry, apple, and the rest of you... you can't control what other people do. too bad!

I've read the other threads. I've participated in the other threads. I'll take you at your word that you didn't mean to be deceptive, but you were, even if inadvertently. I'm not sure how else to take this:

you're right ... the moderators have smelled the cheese, and our pianoworld friends are in trouble... the rules have been posted and our friends have been warned to be civil.

The rules were posted from one newbie to another, there was no warning and certainly no intervention by the moderator. No one's "in trouble."

To quote the always winsome Phlebas, Christ on a bike, don't you guys have anything better to do? :t:

at least I don't belong to TWO forums!

From a slightly jaundiced perspective--let's sit back and watch how this little knot of human drama plays out.

It's interesting.

I belong to five forums. Does that make me a bad person?

:p :p

Jodi

I belong to Guitarworld.com, full of shredfests and tributes to Dimebag.

no no no.. I was responding to the "don't you have anything better to do" question.

I've never seen anything like this. Never. Wow. Sad. Very sad.

No Apple, you are completely mistaken. We were the ones asking about the moderators because we were looking for a more civil place to hang out.

You are completely wrong.


jf

Things must be going to heck in a handbasket over at Piano World, too! Look what I found! It sounds like there's a whole mess of people in big trouble!

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/ubb/agree_review.html

Sadly Jack, you've lost your status as humans and have become objects of amusement.

:glances at PW user agreement, trembles in fear:

Oh, lordie. I had nothing to do with this. I'm innocent, I tell ya!!!

Seriously, plays, no matter what Jolly and others might be implying, there's no grand conspiracy and you weren't snubbed. Dang, Curry mentioned not so long ago that Chickgrand could be found there.

Uh oh. Curry, you are in *so* much trouble!

Man, that other forum must be *good* if so many people here feel threatened by it. . . .

Probably a boilerplate disclaimer cooked up by his attorneys as a result of the ***** ***** brouhaha.

I don't know that 'moderation is the key' is the appropriate mantra for Piano World.

I like to play in all different keys.

I prefer to go "unmoderated". I am just not comfortable with "filters".

THIS IS THE SILLIEST AND STUPIDEST. Some of us ended up at another forum and felt comfortable there, for reasons I will not go in to and are not even relevant to my point. Some were current members of this forum and others, who may have been SOLICITED (oh my ****ing god), were FORMER members of this forum.

Jolly happens to discover us there and publicizes it and all of a sudden all of you are going over there and criticizing us for being there, as if it is some capital crime to post on more than one forum.

Then Larry stalks us over there and begins posting links to Piano World threads that make him look good and us look bad -- and we ALL know Larry's well established reputation for editing his own posts to make sure history looks kindly on him.

I have to say Larry, you have stooped to a new low. Your posts there have no clear purpose other than to pollute the pond where we were trying to join another community that would not have been as troublesome for some as this one has been. I have lost whatever respect I had for you (and I assure you that in the beginning that was considerable). Your motives could not be more transparent and there was no reason for you to post what you did other than to seek some kind of twisted revenge on those who left.

You have shown your true colors Larry and no amount of posts here about "setting the record straight" can vindicate you. What you did was mean spirited and ablsolutely intentional. Your kind and gentle and well versed presence here is nothing but a fraud in light of your vindictive crossover.

See the light. Back off. Let some of us leave in peace and go back to your ****ing hole to wallow in your hatred and your insecurity.

YOU are the main problem with Piano World and those who disagree with me are free to stay.

See you around.

jf

making alot of assumptions aren't you Jack... or is it Kathy?

****, Tom, I have "lost my status as [a] human." Really? Where the...

jf

Apple, it's Jack.

Go see what Larry has posted and give me any reasonable justification.....

jf

It's a pattern, Jack.

If others are having fun, there are individuals here who will do *anything* to break up the party. Even if this means they will pollute something that doesn't even belong to them, where they have no interest.

It's times like these when I wish I were a psychologist. At least then I'd understand the pathology. . . .