The beginning of the end.

 

Will I still be banned?

 

I was posting technical tips for repairing tube amplifiers...
then the hecklers would swoop in and make attack posts...
Then the moderators would threaten to ban me for what the hecklers were doing.

I would urge people to measure and test; one step at a time.
The hecklers would urge people to ignore testing, proceed according to assumptions and guessing.
Experienced knowledgeable educated people are picked on and bullied.
Hacks are held in the highest esteem.

 

That pretty much sums up my experience on TGP.

 

The continuation of dumbing down society to make everyone equal.

 

Is this the same company that own this place?

 

Yes. They've bought up just about every message board community across the internet.

 

Obviously some people are taking the changing of ownership very hard. Some confusion and perhaps last nights liquor is still in their system. Take a break from posting for a while.

 

To tell the truth, and I know not everyone shares this opinion, I really haven't noticed any real degradation of this site since Verticalscope took it over.

Yes, I miss Scott. He was a classy guy and I enjoyed meeting him several times and his steady, even hand at running the site, but for me at least I still see the site in much the same light.

 

AI's opinion for their business model it that they acquire established forums and optimize them for ad revenue & user engagement.

 

And all that sweet, sweet human created data for AI training.

 

They've acquired a bunch of forums so it looks like Alex sold all of the ones he owned.

VS will do what VS does, and it doesn't bode well for those forums.

 

Great! Now I can get random white screens there too! 😕

 

I know people on GC talk down TGP, but I don't really see a whole lot of difference between them, apart from the fact that TGP is much bigger. There are plusses and minuses that go with that.

 

I used to be one of them, but I've started to realize that it was simply me, trying to use rules and codes of conduct from GC while posting on TGP and somehow expecting them to abide by them.

I have never (as far as I can remember) been suspended or banned here, but I have been on TGP, and I didn't do anything there, that I haven't done here.

I think when you're ten times as big, maybe you have to apply the rules more closely so if I posted something that might be acceptable here, but got suspended for it there, how is that their fault?

I will say that there was definitely a very....spiritual element which seemed protected there so if you said ANYthing even remotely.....un-spiritual.....poof, instaban.

Anyway, there are some great people there, and some real douchebags, just like here.

 

Given all the American misspellings included in the Community Rules here at GC, the 'The VerticalScope Community Team' should be right at home doing funky stuff at TGP.

 

This is pretty much the picture in my head of the average guy on TGP
Only with a red hat on

 

I don't have any use for AI and I try to avoid it, but that will quickly (if not already) become impossible.

 

It's in our face now; every time I google a question, the first hits are usually AI generated.

 

If TGP becomes moderated the way this group is, it will self destruct within days! The former TGP administration sure had a puritan slant, but they did keep the group from constantly breaking into chaos and kept the discussion focused on music gear and music. To me, that is a good thing and I would welcome it here (even though I once got a warning on TGP for saying Josh for JHS looks like Allan from Barbie; it wasn't a stab in anyway, they simply look similar, but I think the admins saw it as some type of emasculating comment about one of their own).

 

They do an ok job for sure, even though I’ve had a couple of questionable warnings. Are they paid or is it a thankless job? Some of them even seemed surprised and unaware of the Vertical Scope purchase.

VC will keep it running the same as it has been, it’s a big investment and they’ve done this before and learned from mistakes(hopefully). TGP has changed hands a few times in the last little while and this is just the progression of things. It’s big, and that’s both good and bad.