When did musicians, once a breed of general free-thinkers &, particularly those who gather at this waterhole, become so ironclad in their certainty that others have no right to differing ideas ?

Thanks guys, even you Eddie [ ], but I'm particularly peeved by the change in the MPlayer forums over the past few years...
...when I first visited here there was much more openness & actual concern on the part of moderators that members might chase away visitors; now it seems a given that people will just be jerks...& while that's something I can accept in the population at large, I really am getting a bit tired of it here.

A few years ago when some forums & moderators split to Central, there was a great hue & cry about how rambuctious that site was...
Quite frankly, I find it less contentious & less "owned" by certain members than here...

For myself, I don't care what your opinion is, but if there happens to be one misspelled word in your posting, man, I am gonna drop on you like a ninja who woke up on the wrong side of the straw mat.









ah crap, I think I just misspelled "misspelled"

Copeland? That was a Cheap Trick song!

Copeland? That was a Cheap Trick song!

If I recall correctly, you compared Billy Preston to Michael Jackson because of some legal issues they both faced. Folks disagreed with your comaprison and now you are upset about it?

Folks had a right to disagree with you, just as much as you had the right to state your opinion.

Actually I was referring to more than a single incident; for example, someone I generally respect on the KCorner forum recently got quite persistent over whether particular terms had to be used in ways that fit his definitions.
In some company, a liking for certain or individual musicians will draw fire.

However, in the thread you mention there were some comments that suggested that the rather mild & deliberately unspecific comment I made was totally outrageous & that "[un-named] is a putz"...so that is an example, but hardly the only one.
I'm not re-opening that can.

My feeling is simply that such implacable insistence is not a good thing.

Hay E yer gettin outta the pecking order. Go pedal your opionions somewheres else!

note the diff between early & later replies.

I dunno, CB, comments like this......just re-infoce my observation.

I know that there's a sense of humour behind some commentary but can you really deny that some members might misplace the emphasis in the idea of a "clubhouse"...

I'm not on a campaign nor am I gonna make much more of this but note the diff between early & later replies.

You're a nice day....

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Did a mod lock your thread because he didn't like your opinion?

Did Jim PM you with a warning that further discussion of a given topic would result in suspension?

Did anyone tell you to leave because of your opinion?

From when?