Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:08 am
If it's that bad, stop posting there. Stop going.
It's really that simple.
Andy has "known" me for about 15 years now.
I was with FSM almost since day one.
Around the time Maestro Goldsmith died, I made the "mistake" of registering on their forums because I NEEDED to commiserate with fellow enthusiasts about the whole thing.
Within 24 hours of a post of mine going up in one of the "Goldsmith death tribute" threads they had going there...I found myself being attacked in a thread because I simply made a comment along the lines of: "I'm going to make sure I buy as much Goldsmith music as I can in his honor."
Somehow I had a few know it alls attack me for making Goldsmith's death trite, collecting his music like bottle caps like "he would have hated" and the rest of it.
Never mind the fact that I'm probably as big of a Goldsmith fan as you're going to find anywhere and I buy music because it means something to me.
It didn't matter to these people. They allow a relatively few vocal, bad apples to basically have run of the place.
After about a page or so of this crap, I simply wrote back and told these specific individuals to @$% off in no uncertain terms and to get over themselves and I IM'd directly one of the mods and told them what a @#$%ing disgrace I thought the whole thing was. I also showed it to Lukas.
Not much was done about it and I got some mealy mouthed, wishy washy non answer from the mod at that time and I just never bothered to come back.
Lukas was, and is, far too busy and I don't think he bothered to respond. I don't remember. If he did, obviously the response wasn't very memorable. *shrugs*
The Internet is too large and life is too short. If a place like that is unpleasant, get out and move on. It's that simple. Stop going there. No good can come of it.
That's one of the reasons why I was very grateful when I found out that Andy had this place going.
It's really that simple.
Andy has "known" me for about 15 years now.
I was with FSM almost since day one.
Around the time Maestro Goldsmith died, I made the "mistake" of registering on their forums because I NEEDED to commiserate with fellow enthusiasts about the whole thing.
Within 24 hours of a post of mine going up in one of the "Goldsmith death tribute" threads they had going there...I found myself being attacked in a thread because I simply made a comment along the lines of: "I'm going to make sure I buy as much Goldsmith music as I can in his honor."
Somehow I had a few know it alls attack me for making Goldsmith's death trite, collecting his music like bottle caps like "he would have hated" and the rest of it.
Never mind the fact that I'm probably as big of a Goldsmith fan as you're going to find anywhere and I buy music because it means something to me.
It didn't matter to these people. They allow a relatively few vocal, bad apples to basically have run of the place.
After about a page or so of this crap, I simply wrote back and told these specific individuals to @$% off in no uncertain terms and to get over themselves and I IM'd directly one of the mods and told them what a @#$%ing disgrace I thought the whole thing was. I also showed it to Lukas.
Not much was done about it and I got some mealy mouthed, wishy washy non answer from the mod at that time and I just never bothered to come back.
Lukas was, and is, far too busy and I don't think he bothered to respond. I don't remember. If he did, obviously the response wasn't very memorable. *shrugs*
The Internet is too large and life is too short. If a place like that is unpleasant, get out and move on. It's that simple. Stop going there. No good can come of it.
That's one of the reasons why I was very grateful when I found out that Andy had this place going.
