The recent bans on PianoWorld

Apparently the NV5-thread has been re-opened on PW. All the recent OT posts have been removed.

So, people can either paste pictures directly in the posts (from clipboard) and they will automatically appear, or they can press the picture button below (the second one after the reply, next to an eye) and select a picture from their computer to upload.

Not sure if you noticed it, but you can select some text from a post and a "quote" button will appear next to the section, so that you insert a quote to only this text in a reply 🙂 No need for manual editing anymore.

BTW, I installed a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor which is enabled by pressing the eye button below, it would allow you to see how the post would look with all formatting applied, etc instead of using tags.

MacMacMac I wonder … where are you hosting this BBS?

Also … do you intend to open this to anyone? Or is it by invitation?

It's a hosting company I discovered today: https://www.a2hosting.com, I chose a server in Michigan, so it should be fast for you US guys 😉

Anybody can register but I'm not sure how people can discover about that forum. I posted a link to the forum on PW but it's a thin ice and I could get banned for that. Since my intention is not to steal people, I believe they should be OK with that. I will have to check if this forum is automatically indexed by Google and other search engines or I need to do something though. But in any case feel free to invite other people.

I'm from South Africa. Speed so far seems decent. Not sure how a long thread with many images would perform. Maybe will find out soon…

The topic is PW bans. But I asked about web hosting and CG replied!

That's off topic! You're both banned! 🙂

Great job, CyberGene, of course I joined! You're obviously a doer, not just a talker. We've been talking about an alternative to PW, given their mod policy has raised some questions, but you're the one who did something about it.

I will probably not leave Piano World, but it'll interesting to see how this thing plays out. If we get a lot of members, new or from PW, I might very well call this forum my home, when it comes to piano related discussions.

If things turn out that way, I might very well stop using PW altogether - now I contradicted myself, what a great way to start on a new forum board. 😁

Well, this forum loads in much faster than PW. And it is a secure web site. The mods may have reopened the NV5 thread partially in response to this opening up.

Fuck PW.

All 3 bans were bullshit.

This is a really good idea, I like this BBS much better CG.

Good job!

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!!

Wow that is so easy to upload a photo.

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

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 👍🏻

How's this? …

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.

Does anyone know how to get in touch with Pete14?

I'd like to send him a message.

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.

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.

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 😀

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.

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.