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So Long, and Thanks for All the Frets.
For me, I have benefitted from advice from the community and I have tried in my own way to contribute back. The values you promoted are alive and well, and I for one will continue to participate in my own small way. For that you should be proud of what you have achieved.
I fear for this place if you both leave. Go hard line, if you don't like something you see, delete or instant ban, no warnings, discussions, or any of the other bullshit that takes up your time. And I agree, a few 100 frets before selling would clear up some of the problems there, although might limit growth I guess.
If not, thanks for everything guys, you have created something fantastic and as has been said many times above, something you should be very proud of.
I would suggest adding a few more mods with specific areas to focus on - they can help plug their area and steer conversations and Dave you getting involved in a lot of trivia that must be exhausting to deal with.
As for the classifieds - I’d happily pay and see the annual August donation drive as a similar.
There probdbly needs to be a few discussions about more members and an open classifieds vs more community and some kind of access system - imo post counts or fret counts would be a good idea but I’ll go with whatever the Modmins decide and try to show more gratitude going forward.
Just to echo what's been said above... I started as someone looking for guitar playing help and advice, unlike the pretty common route in via classifieds, and you've both been awesome people to get to know, quite apart from your herculean efforts to keep the good ship FB sailing through some seriously choppy waters of late.
Thank you both, a million times thank you, and please take note of the outpouring of positives above. Even if you sack off holding the rudder, please stay around. You're both like the...err...life jackets? (Think that metaphor may have run it's course!)
Respect
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youNow, if we're to return, it'll be because we've come up with a plan to solve the issues and behaviours we see as problematic. Unlike previous rule changes, this won't be a case of, "Hey guys, we're thinking about these changes - what are your thoughts?" but rather, "We're making these changes.".
I'd hope you'll all trust us to do what's best for the community if that happens, rather than have another epic thread discussing the merits of the plan. For the majority of you, it's likely that not a huge amount would change. We have to consider our own sanity, though, and it's reasonably likely that anybody who strongly objects will be given directions to the door and the opportunity (although not obligation...) to stroll on through it
In the meantime, I'd hope you'll all stick around for The Roland and Jalapeno Show (thanks, lads), which will be playing during the intermission.
I wonder if the work would be worth it if this became a commercial enterprise, especially around the classified area, e.g. similar to reverb.com or Gumtree.
Unfortunately the number 1 rule is open to interpretation, one man's dick is another man's flacid member. (I'd personally have a no insults rule, but that is just me)
The forum has likely reached a tipping point in terms of numbers of members and functionality with a different approach to ensure continued success.
But thanks for all the good work, this is the only forum/community I come back to again and again even though I hardly ever venture outside of Off Topic/Politics/behind closed doors.
Thanks for all you've done guys, it's appreciated. Hopefully after a much deserved break you'll come back and help out again. I felt exactly like this when I was "the" moderator over at Digital Camera Magazine. I was quite relieved when they decided to close the forum. Hopefully that won't be the case here though. Good luck to you both.
have a cull!... or at least cooler the folk that are just “taking” all of the time!...
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I'm always happy to mention the forum everywhere I go, online and offline (in the real world), love the raffles and think you have built a great community, even if we are all flawed.
Cheers, boys!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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Once again thank you. I hope you come back and suitably kick ass. To do all of this for free I tip my hat to you!