until the re-vamp... outta here

Having just seen a 'include Zep in the archives' thread in main discussions (the second in as many weeks it seems), along with the countless other, tiresome, frustrating, boring and pointless similar threads about everyone (almost from 10cc to Ten Years After to Ten Speed Racer), I've had enough.

I tried to be good, not lose my temper, and offer suggestions in the belief that if people read the threads on prog definitions and the re-vamp would use their better judgement and back off for a while until the heavily publicised re-vamp has been complete but it just goes from bad to worse.

I'm bored, frustrated and generally ticked off.

It may seem a bit dramatic but until the re-vamp is done, I'm going to join several other forum members and take a break to let the pollsters go at it.

Not saying I'll be greatly missed (nothing so dramatic) but just want to make the point that the site is in danger of collapse under the weight of nonsense being spouted (yes, some it even by me!) and I can't be bothered reading 80 per cent of the posts anymore.

I'll keep an eye out and see how the re-vamp goes, best of luck with it....

until February or so....

Cheers Arcer! 

I agree.  I am only going to check here once in a while and limit my posting.  I agree about those threads.  What gets me is in that Zep thread someone basically says  Oh I don't think Zep is prog but they are more interesting than almost everything else here.

 Why would anyone waste their time on a site where they don't like most of what is subject here?  Those kinds of things are just stupid and go along with the your 80% unreadable posts comment.  If I come across something interesting I will Email it to you.

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gdub411 wrote: You know if it wasn't Robert The Plant who posted this then I might have groaned in discust too. But when someone whose name and avatar are based on a member of his favorite band, I can see why he would want to try to get them in. Given his age(17), one must remember when we worshipped our favorite band in our youth. The passion, The zeal we had for our band. I am sure RTP is only looking at it in that kind of perspective. It is like all these cool, important bands are invited to this exclusive party, and yet his favorite, Led Zeppelin...is not...!Why?, he is asking!!

Thanks for the defense Gdub, but I do see where the line is, though I also see some progressive elements in Zep. i suppose I lost my cool, because of the Autograph thing, but before that I never really pushed Zeppelin, though I love them to death.

I feel terrible about pushing an old member over the edge like this. I suppose lately I've been caught up in a bit of silliness, which has influenced me (negatively sometimes).

So I have this to say, sorry for losing us a valuable member, sorry for scaring Peter, sorry for scaring Threefates, sorry for mocking Threefates' her (or whatever exactly Mr Lake is to you), sorry for whatever else I've done.

tuxon wrote: threefates wrote: I think one of the problems here is all the newbies seem to have no understanding of what even relative progressive music is.  On one of the Pink Floyd sites someone started a thread called "Your Top Five Favorite Progressive Bands"... and quite a few of them listed mostly bands like the Allman Bros. or Led Zep... the Beatles... I was thoroughly amazed.  I gave them the page URL here that explains prog.... but evidently none of them cared...they continued to list any band from the 70s that they liked.... So your responsible, now these guys have found us, and clutter the forum and the archive with their misconseptions

Hey, I gave them the Led Zeppelin forum URL also...

threefates wrote: Rob The Plant wrote: So I have this to say, sorry for losing us a valuable member, sorry for scaring Peter, sorry for scaring Threefates, sorry for mocking Threefates' her (or whatever exactly Mr Lake is to you), sorry for whatever else I've done. Oh Rob... have you met Reed???  I doubt you could actually mock anyone enough to hurt them.

haha, true. I've been a victim of Reed Lover, he coined the name "Rob the Plank."

All:

As I noted in the other "I'm taking a break" thread, there is nothing wrong with taking time off, especially since so many of are "winded" from recent events and discussions.  I would suggest, however, that you continue to "monitor" the site, especially those threads in which important discussions are being had re new rules and policies for the re-vamp.  This is particularly true of those of you who are collaborators; please make sure to monitor the collaborators forums, since that is where final ideas for decision-making will occur.

Peace to all.