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Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

A question (or two) for those of you with experience of other forums.

Where's does Progarchives forum sit in terms of civility, strictness vs. freedom of speech, number of members who get banned/warned/suspended, friendliness etc., compared to other forums (music related or not)?


we're cultured art-lovers with well-refined taste ;) so abolishing criticism is a large step backwards. we should keep each other honest! Tongue


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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

A question (or two) for those of you with experience of other forums.

Where's does Progarchives forum sit in terms of civility, strictness vs. freedom of speech, number of members who get banned/warned/suspended, friendliness etc., compared to other forums (music related or not)?


most other forums allow some degree of good-natured ridicule to transpire between members whereas here I've been warned away from making even the most innocuous comments. that coupled with the "only post positive topics" movement pretty much pushes constructive criticism to the sidelines.

we're cultured art-lovers with well-refined taste ;) so abolishing criticism is a large step backwards. we should keep each other honest! Tongue
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you guys are a nazi regime!!!

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In all seriousness Bob, I'd say you are in the middle. I know some forums which are much more lenient, and I know others that just ridiculously closed-minded and unfriendly.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2007 at 11:42

A question (or two) for those of you with experience of other forums.

Where's does Progarchives forum sit in terms of civility, strictness vs. freedom of speech, number of members who get banned/warned/suspended, friendliness etc., compared to other forums (music related or not)?


Edited by Easy Livin - January 28 2007 at 11:43
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

We had a very active Prog site, excellent guys who still are my friends and some are here.
 
But USA invaded Iraq and some people started to post anti-USA threads (Most of them left oriented), the funny thing is that as everybody here knows me, I'm anti communist and closer to USA democracy than to any left ideology.
 
But the owner (A real bigot who later joined this forum and left) one Sunday afternoon posted a photo of his house with a USA flag, a banner saying A Real American (Or something similar) and banned all Latin Americans, a woman from India who was anti USA (Well, she's nice as a person but she's radical Confused) and most Europeans except a couple that were his right hand.
 
I am not a central member but I used to post every day and mostly about Prog, so did a group of guys who NEVER talked about politics (In the case of USA vs Iraq as here I always stayed neutral), when we left, the posts wen't down from lets say 50 or 60 daily to 5 per week.
 
He asked some of us to go back because "he had made a mistake", despite I disagreed with some of the guys who posted anti USA posts, I wouldn't accept to go back there if ALL other members were not accepted back and many were not going to accept going back for nothing in this world.
 
The guy had to close his site, in the meanwhile some of the former members created a forum but sadly it never worked, thanks God I found Prog Archives where I feel comfortable.
 
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that's terrible, serves him right though that his site went down the hole
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We had a very active Prog site, excellent guys who still are my friends and some are here.
 
But USA invaded Iraq and some people started to post anti-USA threads (Most of them left oriented), the funny thing is that as everybody here knows me, I'm anti communist and closer to USA democracy than to any left ideology.
 
But the owner (A real bigot who later joined this forum and left) one Sunday afternoon posted a photo of his house with a USA flag, a banner saying A Real American (Or something similar) and banned all Latin Americans, a woman from India who was anti USA (Well, she's nice as a person but she's radical Confused) and most Europeans except a couple that were his right hand.
 
I am not a central member but I used to post every day and mostly about Prog, so did a group of guys who NEVER talked about politics (In the case of USA vs Iraq as here I always stayed neutral), when we left, the posts wen't down from lets say 50 or 60 daily to 5 per week.
 
He asked some of us to go back because "he had made a mistake", despite I disagreed with some of the guys who posted anti USA posts, I wouldn't accept to go back there if ALL other members were not accepted back and many were not going to accept going back for nothing in this world.
 
The guy had to close his site, in the meanwhile some of the former members created a forum but sadly it never worked, thanks God I found Prog Archives where I feel comfortable.
 
Iván


Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - January 27 2007 at 23:11
            
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People from a forum vandalized your car because you disagreed with them? Wow, that's just completely crazy.
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I was banned from a site over a film. The admin was too dumb and too anti-American.  I teased him to tears. He could not fight me any longer, deleted my last post and cut me off.

 

On another occasion, I was ostracized by a group of members on an economic forum. They didn’t like my view of gold vs. fiat (paper) money.

 

The pinnacle of my “carrier” was when they vandalized my car a few years ago. I behave very nicely ever since, you can check my posts here.

 
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No, everyone simply loves me Wink
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Points: 3278 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2007 at 17:35

NO, but I bet someone was/are considering it.
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Originally posted by Bryan Bryan wrote:

I was banned from a Pink Floyd forum a few years back that happens to be run by a couple of (frighteningly) obsessive people on an unheralded power trip.  I'm not sure if that one really counts though.
What forum was that?
 
No, I've never been permabanned from a forum. In fact I'm a moderator at another forum.


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Not as of late!Evil Smile
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Points: 1655 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 18:38
Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

I once was denied access to the official Green Day guestbook because I posted something like "GREENDAY SUCKS GIANT MONKEY BALLS" about 10,000 times. Otherwise not. 


way to go!! LOL
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I once was denied access to the official Green Day guestbook because I posted something like "GREENDAY SUCKS GIANT MONKEY BALLS" about 10,000 times. Otherwise not. 
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I voted yes because my Runescape account got deleted once.

I don't think I will be banned from any forums, though, because I'm not really that rude and I never say or type curse words.
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 15:34
Nope!


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Points: 6419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 15:14
Yes I have actually. The reason why is a pretty long and complicated story, and it happened three years ago so I don't remember every detail. It would be easiest to leave it. Nothing serious, in case you were worrying. Just pointless and immature bickering (I was the slightly more mature part, while the site owners who must've been at least 20 years older than me acted pretty childishly, which is kind of amusing).
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

    No.... but give just a little more time...

(Not that I will try to be ejected, but what if Kayo Dot released 4 albums in the same year? I would have to review them, and my God, for public safety reasons, to mantain order and peace in the ProgLand, I would have to be expelled and sent to the deserted arenas of Popberia)




     
 
Trust me, next time Kayo Dot releases a new album Ill be watching you like a hawkTongue
 
And as for the question, yes I have but only because I had posted a curse word in my signature.Embarrassed
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Points: 1655 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 15:08
yes, numerous times


4 times by opethforum.net
once by remedylane's (pos) site
several times by facebook groups
once by a car forum

i would say about 100 online gaming servers (cs: source) - for accusations of cheating - I don't, i play competitively in leagues, but I'm good enough to where many think I cheat

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I guess I'm a bad person  Embarrassed


Edited by OpethGuitarist - January 26 2007 at 15:13
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