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Are things slowing down on TB?

#122
I still love and use TalkBass, but I do feel like there were more “legends of TalkBass” active on here around 10 years ago. I particularly miss the contributions of Kjung and Chef. Jeff Berlin always made for a good time as well.
There was also a boom in new bass gear in the early 2010’s that had us all excited. It was terrible for my GAS back then.
The classifieds were definitely hotter in the early 2010’s. I went a little too hard on that buying-and-selling thrill ride at times back then.
 
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#123
Can anyone imagine how quickly this site would become utterly useless without proper stewardship? I think I’ve received something like four warnings here, and i walked into every one of them. I accepted my caveat(s) with the tacit understanding that there are rules here, and I violated them in each instance, whether innocently or not, there is a slippery slope that has to be respected. Live and learn.
 
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#125
jnewmark said:
Found this explanation online. I believe it applies to TalkBass and other private sites like Twitter, FaceBook, etc.


"Our shared conversations are increasingly taking place in privately owned and managed walled gardens, which means that the politics that occur in such conversations are subject to private rules.”

Therein lies the problem. Yes, the First Amendment applies online, just as it does in regular written, personal, religious, and political discourse. But one of the key limitations of the internet lies less in what we can say, but where we choose to say it. Does this mean the First Amendment comes screeching to a halt when we hop online? Not necessarily. But we engage each other through the internet primarily via private websites, not public ones, so the First Amendment, to no small degree, is far from a protected “free speech zone”.
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Nothing is different today in terms of "private rules vs. Public rules" compared to 10, 20, 30 years ago. If anything, people are inundated now with ways to express themselves publicly, even if it is by private garden rules. Go back 20 or 30 years and none of these online, globally available venues existed. To truly express yourself publicly, you had to either write an article or letter to the editor, which in turn had to be approved by an editor in chief of whichever publication you were pursuing. Virtually all of those publications were privately owned. The process was slower and offered limited choice. So I don't buy this point of view at all.
 
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N. Kentucky Bass said:
Nothing is different today in terms of "private rules vs. Public rules" compared to 10, 20, 30 years ago. If anything, people are inundated now with ways to express themselves publicly, even if it is by private garden rules. Go back 20 or 30 years and none of these online, globally available venues existed. To truly express yourself publicly, you had to either write an article or letter to the editor, which in turn had to be approved by an editor in chief of whichever publication you were pursuing. Virtually all of those publications were privately owned. The process was slower and offered limited choice. So I don't buy this point of view at all.
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I kinda miss my local newspaper had an answering machine that you called and then they wrote all the messages on Friday's edition. Forget what it was called. Ranged from "Becky I love you" to the more usual. "To the person who's [sic] dog keeps barking all night, and you know who you are, antifreeze is delicious!!!!"
 
#129
Slowing down compared to when?

This is my first reply ever in TB, and I am only doing so because I found this thread very interesting, just like the other 2 million things I've read in TB for years but never even completed my registration! Why?, I am one of those that grew up reading stuff in libraries, waiting for a magazine only to get 6 all at once HA! Read on, get new questions, and investigate some more again, develop patience and nurture your interests.

So I am a lurker, just like thousands of others in the same place as me. I never post/reply etc., as every question I might have, someone else was quicker than me in asking it, and if I knew the answer to one also, there was someone else with a better answer.

Anyways, I am responding on the 7th page on a thread posted about 16 hours ago... just goes to show.

I love reading stuff here honestly, I don't know if it has slowed down, but 99% of the times I've had a Bass related question, the answer is somewhere here.
 
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#130
N. Kentucky Bass said:
Nothing is different today in terms of "private rules vs. Public rules" compared to 10, 20, 30 years ago. If anything, people are inundated now with ways to express themselves publicly, even if it is by private garden rules. Go back 20 or 30 years and none of these online, globally available venues existed. To truly express yourself publicly, you had to either write an article or letter to the editor, which in turn had to be approved by an editor in chief of whichever publication you were pursuing. Virtually all of those publications were privately owned. The process was slower and offered limited choice. So I don't buy this point of view at all.
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I don't know, I'm kind of seeing it like, TalkBass, Facebook, etc., is sort of a private club. Private clubs have their own rules. If you agree to be a member, you have to play by the club's rules. Outside the club, you can say things you can't in the club. Like, for a ridiculous example, you can't say, all bass players are cretins here, out in your backyard, you can. You don't like the rules, don't join the club.
 
#131
ElMon said:
Jaco played too many notes
Tort sucks
Metronomes are the best
Class A/B/C/D isn’t as good as my heavy stuff
Grab your pbass and shut up
Fedoras are expensive
FLATS WORK ON EVERYTHING

Let’s spice it up round here TB
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Ok.

White guards bite. They just do.
Metronomes suck. 'Can't hear 'em over my cranked SVT and 'fridge. Besides, they keep fallin' off.
Speaking of, my Class A/B/C/D/nanotube keeps fallin' off.
Grabbing a PBass sucks. Prolly better to play one.
Ball caps are cheap. They're all uncomfortable as hell.
But I LIKE changing strings. It's therapeutic.
 
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#133
jnewmark said:
Outside the club, you can say things you can't in the club. Like, for a ridiculous example, you can't say, all bass players are cretins here, out in your backyard, you can.
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I'd like to think that most of us have enough of a sense of humor to not take that kind of statement personally here.

W-w-waitaminute. Wasn't that part of the the job description? What exactly did I sign up for again? I wasn't paying attention.
 
#134
jnewmark said:
I don't know, I'm kind of seeing it like, TalkBass, Facebook, etc., is sort of a private club. Private clubs have their own rules. If you agree to be a member, you have to play by the club's rules. Outside the club, you can say things you can't in the club. Like, for a ridiculous example, you can't say, all bass players are cretins here, out in your backyard, you can. You don't like the rules, don't join the club.
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Thinking of communication channels as "clubs" is interesting. Go with it if you want. You could argue that a prominent daily newspaper (irrespective of whether it's privately or rarely publicly owned) is kind of a club too. It attracts certain readers who expect a predictable type of content, written in a predictable style or even a point of view. In more formal publications, the editor in chief ensures the "voice" is uniform and fulfills the public expectations of what will be inside. In less formal publications, like Facebook, what you write might temporarily be available for consumption, but if it weaves too far from the "terms and conditions," the content will be removed. TalkBass is definitely a club. I've had my wrists slapped a few times by moderators because I wrote something too much in wiseass mode. Maybe I'll slip too far someday and be banned. But you're darn right TB is about as clubby as they get! Obviously, it's worth enough to those of us who have written our 2cents in this thread.
 
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#137
To further the discussion about “Freedom of Speech”, and the implication that things have possibly slowed down here, the wife and i were entertainment starved and flipped on the tube, and “Blazing Saddles” was airing…Uncut…I think we made it about a half hour in, looked at each other and decided the content made us both uncomfortable. 50 years ago, it was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. Dunno how it is still airing, but man…things have changed. Even Chapelle Show reruns are unacceptable by today’s standards. Its a different world, and thoughts and opinions have recently become cards you have to hold close to your chest. It is what it is. Theres an emerging Zeitgeist which makes even small attempts at humor suspect. I see the day when the Three Stooges are cancelled for whatever ridiculous reason, and it saddens me that everything i say is followed by me looking around to see who i may have offended.
 
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#139
I tried to renew my yearly membership for next year and it wouldn't let me, only monthly or lifetime, maybe a price increase coming?
Back on topic/ I joined Talkbass in my early forties, I'm almost 70 now, I do know I've slowed down.:D
 
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