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Re: Hijacking A Thread

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2023-09-01 21:54

As moderators we get involved when a thread wanders toward the offensive, but generally we stay away - I find threads that go somewhat off topic much more interesting than 95% of the threads that are repeats of something I've already seen in the last 25 or 30 years. I used to say "try searching". That doesn't work "there are so many responses - I don't want to read that many". Now I just let them go and only read in passing. We have literally thousands of threads on (beginner, intermediate, professional) mouthpieces, ligatures, barrels, Selmer, Buffet, Leblanc, etc., models that were new when the BBoard was young and are now classic or have fallen by the wayside. Reeds - I think all the brands have been covered, extant and non-extant (lots of coverage of the old Morre' reeds that were unavailable when this BBoard started already).

We _could_ go to 100% moderation - but no one pays me for this and all you'd get is MY ideas on what we should yack about. That would be a baaaaad idea, as evidenced by a few other lists around. I have my biases ...

Do we take people off the list for being a**hats? Once in a while. Doesn't take even two hands to count the times we've done that. Other than the spammers, of course. 5-10 of those a week. Why do we get spammers? Because they think you're a nice and generous audience.

Have I hijacked the thread? Yes.

Post Edited (2023-09-01 22:26)

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