Members who have left.

[Brünnhilde forever]

By golly! Does he live on a volcano? Or more probably in a country hit by a typhoon or an earthquaque?

André: T.C. lives in Israel!

[Wendell_E]

I notice Hector is gone. Or is it just that I'm the last one to notice?

He made a post earlier today (10:35 a.m.), so it's a recent development.

[Kuhlau]

I think we all know that every forum, no matter what its purpose, cycles naturally through periods of rise and fall in membership. Drasko said something similar earlier in this thread, and my experience certainly confirms this.

Yes, it's regretable when knowledgeable and/or well-liked members leave, feel they have no choice but to leave (for there is a subtle difference), or simply flounce out in a hissy fit. But again, we all know that some of them will return ... though not always under their former identities.

That's the way of forum life, and I don't believe that any amount of moderator action - 'good' or 'bad' (note I put these words in inverted commas, for I'm making judgements neither way here ) - will ever change the way in which such online communities typically operate.

No great insights there, I'm afraid. I was just feeling left out of the general hysteria and wanted to participate.

FK

[adamdavid80]

He made a post earlier today (10:35 a.m.), so it's a recent development.

Why?  Did M (aka Gurn) bite him or something?

[bhodges]

I think we all know that every forum, no matter what its purpose, cycles naturally through periods of rise and fall in membership. Drasko said something similar earlier in this thread, and my experience certainly confirms this.

Yes, it's regretable when knowledgeable and/or well-liked members leave, feel they have no choice but to leave (for there is a subtle difference), or simply flounce out in a hissy fit. But again, we all know that some of them will return ... though not always under their former identities.

That's the way of forum life, and I don't believe that any amount of moderator action - 'good' or 'bad' (note I put these words in inverted commas, for I'm making judgements neither way here ) - will ever change the way in which such online communities typically operate.

No great insights there, I'm afraid. I was just feeling left out of the general hysteria and wanted to participate.

FK

This is about as measured, and accurate, assessment of forum comings and goings as I've read.  (And as you say, not just GMG, either.)  Thanks for posting it. 

--Bruce

[Kuhlau]

This is about as measured, and accurate, assessment of forum comings and goings as I've read.  (And as you say, not just GMG, either.)  Thanks for posting it. 

--Bruce

Thank you, Bruce.

Having participated in several forums under various identities since around late 2001 (IIRC), I'm now quite comfortable with calling things as I see them. And indeed, calling them as they are.

FK

[Brian]

Well, they do everything bigger and better in Texas...even in the Ivy League it appears! 

Still trying to get my head around drunk bike racing...that's not even something I'd do sober...

To clarify, the team drinking and the team biking are comprised of different people, though some of the bikers do show up to the race drunk already.

So, basically, nothing much has changed since John Landis's 'Animal House' film of 1978 with its portrayal of an-apparently-endless round of drunken excess?

Fantastically funny film which never fails to crack me up Full of marvellous quotes-like the Dean to a student "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son".

And there was me thinking that Texas upheld the new standards of American decency and decorum Still, nice to know that the future leaders of the free world developed a drink problem while at university

Not to mention the current leader of the free world. 

But you do have classes and stuff, right? At all? 

As it happens, I'm in class right now 

[Lilas Pastia]

André: T.C. lives in Israel!

Honig, unless I'm mistaken, it's life as usual in Israel ?   

I really miss Danny (he's been away for at least a month, if not two). He's one the most honest and gentle members here. Hope nothing happened to him  .

[adamdavid80]

This might help explain some people here, and some people gone...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081107/sc_nm/us_brain_bullies

[Maciek]

And note how the experiment involved music!

[Renfield]

Stopping by for a visit, amidst lots of - happily fruitful - work and a still-growing collection, I see a few posters whose contributions I'd enjoyed are now gone. Of course, many are still left.

But especially regarding M being banned, I'd like to express my regret that this board has yet to collectively cultivate the steel nerves required for contemporary public internet discussion, across all its levels.

I am not suggesting it is good, appropriate or laudable for a person to be disruptive or inconsiderate. But I have, since before I joined this board, come to acknowledge that the online medium entails the exhibition of such behaviour from certain people; people who would not otherwise act thus, but do in this context.


Banning, in my personal view, is an action reserved for a member of a group who is present only to disrupt, or for the case that the other members of the group in their entirety demand it.

It is likely the second clause in action, here. And fair enough it is. All things considered, however, it would seem common courtesy not to slam the door on someone's back, even if that person would not have returned it. Although of course, and especially in matters of courtesy, (with a nod towards Que) "à chacun son goût".


Until my next spell of activity, work (curricular and otherwise) permitting, I hope the discussions are as productive, the wit as sharp, and the atmosphere as inclusive as it's ever been on this forum at its best.


Best regards from Edinburgh!



[My lack of a home internet connection was the main reason I did not pay this visit sooner, for the record.]

[Dundonnell]

Nice to hear that you are surviving the rigours of a Scottish winter   I live 45 miles north of Edinburgh

I hope that you will be able to be a regular poster again here before too long. Your posts were always written with supreme eloquence and demonstrated very considerable musical insight and sensitivity.

[Lethevich]

Banning, in my personal view, is an action reserved for a member of a group who is present only to disrupt

...and yet Christi remains... 0:)

[karlhenning]

...and yet Christi remains... 0:)

What's your favorite episode?

[Gurn Blanston]

What's your favorite episode?

I liked, like, the one where she said that Mahler sucked. Remember that one? That was a hoot!   

[Christo]

As my near-namesake himself confessed (in the How many CDs do you own thread) that he only owns three CDs, two of them filled with "Christmas music", we perhaps better classify him as a "starter". 

Of course we're all curious about the third. Is it Bach, or Herbert, or Bloch, or ... ? 

[karlhenning]

I liked, like, the one where she said that Mahler sucked. Remember that one? That was a hoot!   

Hot Lips said that, Gurn? 

[springrite]

Of course we're all curious about the third. Is it Bach, or Herbert, or Bloch, or ... ? 

...or Yani...or Clyderman...

[karlhenning]

Bite your tongue, Paul! 

[Florestan]

...or Yani...or Clyderman...

Yes, Claiderman playing Johnny Mandel's Three Movements from MASH.