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Do people really quit talkbass?

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#102
I thought I could give up on TB but such is not the case,...I tried and did well for about two weeks,...but the NHL thread keeps me coming back.

OT is fun,...but the rest of Talkbass has lost it's luster to me.

I'm not trying to bad mouth TB,...there are a ton of people on these boards that I take seriously and the core community vibe is tight knit,....but there is also a lot of hot air and a lack of critical thinking not to mention a lack of self moderation that I'd rather just avoid.
 
#103
MakiSupaStar said:
mike_v_s? Whatever happened to that automatic toilet paper dispenser?
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+1

Where is the blimp at now?

5StringBlues said:
His lack of emotion would get to me eventually,but yeah,he's pretty hot.


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He's interested in assimilating data because he is the collective conscious.
 
#104
JAUQO III-X said:
I'm thinking about quitting (not that it matters to any one).

To much negativity and hate when there's no reason to be.
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well, i'd rather you didn't (not to be a suck up or anything...)


warwick.hoy said:
I thought I could give up on TB but such is not the case,...I tried and did well for about two weeks,...but the NHL thread keeps me coming back.

OT is fun,...but the rest of Talkbass has lost it's luster to me.

I'm not trying to bad mouth TB,...there are a ton of people on these boards that I take seriously and the core community vibe is tight knit,....but there is also a lot of hot air and a lack of critical thinking not to mention a lack of self moderation that I'd rather just avoid.
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i'd rather avoid it as well, but its hard for me to imagine the interwebz without hot air, lack of critical thinking, lack of self-moderation, and general e-penis waving. i take it as par for the course and let it roll off. i think i get it that a lot of folks get sick of it, but for me its just noise. i ignore it cause there is so much other good stuff to find here that i don't wanna throw out the baby with the bath water, as they say.


like this, for example:
5StringBlues said:
His lack of emotion would get to me eventually,but yeah,he's pretty hot.


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so much win.
 
#105
EBodious said:
i take it as par for the course and let it roll off. i think i get it that a lot of folks get sick of it, but for me its just noise. i ignore it cause there is so much other good stuff to find here that i don't wanna throw out the baby with the bath water, as they say.
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Yup.


I figured this out early on.


There was a thread on the Peavey T-Max ,back in early 2009, from a guy who wanted opinions on them.I made the comment that the compressor seemed to add a bit of noise when the amp was being pushed hard at an 8 ohm load into a 410 cab with a tweeter.


I also stated that I didn't hear this when running the amp into a 4 ohm 2/15's cab.


I got shouted down someone who had been here a couple of years before me. This guy said that he never heard any added distortion and stated that he used his with a 4 ohm 2/15. I was branded a noob and a know nothing,even tho I had just stated I had no problem with a 4 ohm cab.

I had owned the T-max 13 years at that point............... :rolleyes:


The guy arguing with me hadnt been playing ten years yet.


So even when offering an opinion that matched his,he still had to doubt my experience with the amp at 8 ohms with a tweeter.


I let it slide and have progressively pulled back from posting in the amp and bass forums.Too many "experts".




So,if anyone has ever wondered, "Just what's the deal with that crazy 5String basstard?",now you know.


No pearls before swine........
 
#108
My short story: obviously I do not have a long time here, but just when I started, I posted like crazy and spent hours on TB for two-three months. Then I stopped completely for another two-three months, and then I resumed to post like crazy again. I'm bound to stop again, and maybe resume again. It is in my nature. I've never been able to post constantly in a forum for long periods of time, eventhough I've been able to stay a member for long periods of time.

Oh, and when I stop altogether, I'm never the one who whines and announces his retirement. I just stop.

I've never been banned from a forum so far.
 
#111
Bongolation said:
It's a rare user who is more than just negligible content.

On any forum, there are rarely more than a half-dozen people who really know what they're talking about, and these tend to abruptly leave when they get fed up with the aggressive ignorance of the people they're trying to help. No mystery where they go or why. A nationally-known gear author I know lasted about two weeks before he quietly left in disgust when he realized how ineducable the users were (and they almost all are). I split for a year or so a couple of times when it got really bad.

Almost the only knowledgeable ones who stay are those who are selling something.

I'm here to scout deals and to maybe help the 1% or 2% who can be helped -- and as best I can ignore the ignoroids who hate knowledge. Occasionally I learn something. That's cool with me. Sigs and avatars are turned off, I hit the subjects, I move on.

I'm not interested in personalities as such. I'm interested in data.
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Wow, that's harsh... and arrogant. You're presuming to know everyone in a forum and classify them accordingly? So, what exactly makes you a worthy moral judge here?

"They almost all are (ineducable)"? With such a viewpoint of things, I certainly wouldn't want you to "educate" me. I'd rather save it for someone who doesn't want to teach with an iron fist.
 
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Tituscrow said:
I certainly would never assume some sort of superiority based on my join date, which some users seem to do, like the longer you've been here, the more valid and worthwhile your thoughts, feelings and opinions. Everyone was a 'noob' at some point, a bit like a learner driver.
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Time in grade is far less important than post count.
 
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