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

Skropi

arc Its already dead for me.

MacMacMac

@arc: There is a possible reason for controlling the content. My wife moderated a board and wrote news for it (before she joined me in blissful RETIREMENT). The board owner was threatened with a loss of google ad revenue because of offensive photos posted on the board. So they had to clean things up.

I think copyright infringement might be another reason for lost advertising (but that was not happening on that board).

So some kinds of postings might cost PW some google ads … if any of those ads we see were placed by google. But, two things:

I don't know whether google places ads on PW.
In any case, I don't see how off-topic posts would cause any problem. The off-topic posts that stimulated this hubbub were not offensive, nor rude, nor threatening, nor infringing, nor perverse, nor obscene (if there is any such thing anymore). So I'm not understanding the mods' position on this.

Skropi Its already dead for me.

It's dead for me, too.

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arc Maybe the PW owners want not only to monetize PW but also to transform it into something like the stackexchange forums where there is a distinction between posts which are strictly enforced to be on topic, and informal discussions. But I guess that if PW moves in that direction the forum would die in months.

The minimum requirement for anything skilled professionals would use beyond casual chitchat is threads with tree-style followups, so users can actually follow along branches, they find interesting. Reddit does it, Stackexchange does it.

vBB and its competitors don't.

Pianissimo

arc

absolutely true, I read a newspaper because of the articles. But if they allow comments then they need to know how to moderate. This is one of the inevitable line:

Me: " So mods, why did you remove my comment this time, I didn't say anything rude."

The mods "Comments? It's not our priority. We don't care about your comments."

Me: "I know that you don't care, but we do."

Gombessa

TomLC

Wondered if you were going to join here. 😄

David B

Gombessa About time you joined us. 🥳

MacMacMac

And … welcome.

Drew-r

Wooof!

Pianoclack security check achieved; as you were, over and out/pcsc-eot

InstrEd

So MacMacMac is this the place that we will find out what piano you finally buy?

Drew-r

InstrEd

InstrEd buy?

THIS is such a pertinent question, to me, that it warrants its own tag/category or sub-category ...............” the art of the DP deal “ 🙂

One of the reasons i came back to PW this past Spring, after the hiatus i took subsequent to becoming a member in late 15’/early 16’, was to find out if the answer had yet arrived.

My mother ( a great mother) was from the era of full time mother/housewife & Nurse who, by circumstance, became a daytime soaps junkie. When i left home in 77’ and began the habit of visiting home & family every so often, i found that a day or two in front of the tube with mother would quickly catch me up on these mellow dramas, as though i had never left them despite being away from them from a few months to a few years at a time. Likewise goes MacMacMac’s next piano ‘Days of Our Lives .... As the World Turns ....Edge of Night’ ... still not resolved but i wanna know how it turns out if/when it happens 😉

David B

Drew-r Likewise goes MacMacMac’s next piano ‘Days of Our Lives .... As the World Turns ....Edge of Night’ ... still not resolved but i wanna know how it turns out if/when it happens 😉

"Like sands through the hourglass" so are the days in which we wait for Mac to make his purchase. 😀

arc

David B drew-r Likewise goes MacMacMac’s next piano ‘Days of Our Lives .... As the World Turns ....Edge of Night’ ... still not resolved but i wanna know how it turns out if/when it happens 😉

"Like sands through the hourglass" so are the days in which we wait for Mac to make his purchase. 😀

Maybe @CyberGene can find an extension that can be prominently placed in this forum counting the number of days we are waiting for @MacMacMac 's decision 😀