The recent bans on PianoWorld

MBiG · 2021-10-03T16:33:11+00:00

Hello all, Really a very good idea. Opening this forum in parallel with PW, thank you very much. On the subject of the ban. First of all I would like to say that I am very sorry about all this. Especially the fact that the thread was closed because of my OT. I would like to apologise again to everyone in the forum and especially to you, Tyr. Regarding the incident itself, I can only say that apart from the posts as they are to be read in the thread, no other posts were made. So no direct attack or denigration of a member. I was banned without warning. My ban lasts until 10/15. How long Mac and Pete have been banned I can't say of course. As soon as my ban is over I will immediately contact the admin and ask for the thread to be unlocked. If I have to give up my account at PW for this, or if a small compensation for the administrative process would be necessary, this is also fine with me. I absolutely agree with my ban because of OT, but not so much with the fact that the thread was closed immediately. I am against colective punishment. I also think that Mac and Pete were punished too harshly. I apologise again so much, Tyr. Feel free to post this in the thread at PW as well. As long as it helps to clarify the situation. Many thanks and greetings, MBiG

musicman100

I rarely post in piano world but read it quite often, and find the mods too heavy handed. I hate anything where they say no discussion!!.

Like you say i dont even know who the mods are!!!

I am going to do the photo thing

Sorry off topic!!

musicman100

Wow that is so easy to upload a photo.

Sorry if if takes a lot of space and please do delete if it does.

CyberGene

musicman100 , no it doesn’t take space, that’s the good thing! The pictures are uploaded at Imgur. Maybe some day that will stop working but for now it’s free and unlimited and doesn’t take the hosting space. So, feel free to post pictures 👍🏻

MacMacMac

How's this? …

Skropi

Hello from me too. In my opinion the bans were quite heavy handed, while other users are free to insult others at will.

Before the bans, I had a suspicion that some users were pushing secret agendas. I may be wrong, but seeing how the owner of the PW forum also has a music store…….I dont know.

In any case, I dont like people who like to bully others under the guise of authority.

MacMacMac

Does anyone know how to get in touch with Pete14?

I'd like to send him a message.

Ralphiano

Hey CyberGene!

My hat's off to you for stepping up and taking action! Thank you for the work and effort you have put in to this.

MacMacMac, it's good to read you again. Your absence form PW was palpable. I'm sorry to hear about your ban and thought it excessive.

I too, hope Pete14 finds this place. I find it horrific that he was banned from PW permanently.

MBiG

If Pete14 uses the secret / incognito mode, as I do, he can of course continue to read PW.

I had seen the information about this forum here because of CyberGene's post in the PW heads-on thread before the private mail he sent to MacMacMac, Pete14 and me.

Does anyone know if the private messages in PW are still delivered when permanently banned? I fear that this may not be the case.

CyberGene

Knowing Pete, I don’t think he is this type of person to register here and complain: those b*****ds banned me unfairly, I only said this and not that. He might have registered already and posted, who knows 😀

Pianissimo

I see online forums like online newspapers, it's very hard to find a good one. The same things happen when you post a comment on an online newspaper, they often remove your comments for no reason at all.

MacMacMac

MBiG Does anyone know if the private messages in PW are still delivered when permanently banned? I fear that this may not be the case.

It didn't work for me. CG said he sent me a message. I didn't get one.

CyberGene

Well, the thing is, if you have enabled the feature to receive an email for private messages, then PW will send you the email and in that email one can see the content of the message. It used to work for me when I was banned.

MacMacMac

That explains it.

mmatthew

Oh dear! Pete14 is my favorite member and it's a little upsetting that he is permanently banned.

Come on over @Pete14 we'll have your jersey and number reserved for you 😀

Jose EB5AGV

Is it possible to know the number of new messages posted daily at PW?. Just curious about the influence of some regular posters leaving it. Because the 300.000 registered users is a big joke when you see how many of them are dormant for decades…

QuasiUnaFantasia

MacMacMac did pull out some statistics on member posting some time ago. It's something like 5% of members creating 95% of posts … (or even more extreme than that).

MacMacMac

Oooh. You've pulled my chain! OK …

The last time I ran the stats was last November. The proportions seem to change little over time so things today likely differ only a bit.

There were 97,483 members. 50% of those members had never posted. 87% had posted no more than 10 times.

From that same data set I recently took a different slice. The site records a member's "last seen" date. From that I get that:

1,854 members visited in the preceding 30 days, while the other 95,000 had not. Similarly, 4,992 members visited as some point in the preceding 6 months, while the other 92,000 had not. (Note: A "visit" likely refers to a page read. It does not refer to creating a post. Also, it does not account for members who lurk whilst not logged in.)

Also, there were 2,909,618 total posts in the Digital Piano forum. The current top-50 members account for just under 20% of those posts. The top 300 members account for 47% of the posts.

MacMacMac

MBiG If Pete14 uses the secret / incognito mode, as I do, he can of course continue to read PW.

Note that you don't need incognito mode. You just need to log out. If the PW site won't let you log out, then just delete all pianoworld.com cookies. Voila.

MacMacMac

Some historical PW stats:

DATE         # USERS   # POSTS IN DIG
07/31/2010    52,436    1,449,208
01/11/2013    66,636    1,936,915
03/30/2014    72,512    2,172,141
03/25/2015    77,200    2,298,602
07/24/2016    82,850    2,440,760
01/11/2017    84,591    2,484,109
06/11/2017    85,844    2,527,258
05/21/2018    87,899    2,615,839
07/23/2018    88,992    2,634,313
02/08/2019    90,706    2,782,951
01/04/2020    93,811    2,797,250
03/04/2020    91,847    2,773,553
10/05/2020    97,061    2,896,271
11/16/2020    97,483    2,909,618

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