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i do try and do my moderating in early morning and if possible in the evenings, like now.  i don't post many of my new songs of late due to the lack of interest and only begin a new thread if i have something to say, but i am a boring person (apparently) so i don't have a lot to say anyway!
a lot of my time is taken up with this brexit nonsense. the whole of the UK is split. sorry....politics, no, no.

i would like to echo my condolences to our NZ friends and offer any support that they may feel i can help with. such an idiotic waste of life on a difference in the way people worship what we all recognise as one God just worshipped in their own ways. life is precious, taking a life is the one true sin.     

I my self have not been around much, so guilty as charged. I some times write entire post then delete them before I post because I remember the best advice I ever got. better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. and like Doug said my intrest comes and goes.     

Chordie is a daily stop for me, and the various projects, song writing, poems, new gear days, etc. are always interesting. Apart from the Tuesday and Wednesday weekly columns I do, the real interest personally is that visiting Chordie daily keeps guitar playing on the front burner, if you will. Once done moderating, posting, commenting, etc., I'll typically seize the moment of inspiration and pick a guitar for a while.

For what it's worth, if we ever became too wrapped up in "social issues", that would diminish the value of what I consider a fantastic website. I think we all just get a little stale / disinterested / busy at times ... that's life.     

Agree 100%     

Zurf, there are stated guide lines or don't you read the "stickies?" I thought the 1. no swearing, 2. no spam, 3. don't be abusive to your fellow members as is seen on other less reputable sites, is quite plain?
I thought the main litany for Chordie was to help other musicians and to encourage them as well as inspiring them to improve and maybe attain the thing we all desire....recognition of what we do or write. If you cant achieve that without "effing and jeffing" or rubbishing a persons efforts then maybe I'm on the wrong site? I think I'm old enough and adult enough that I don't need to use bad language, yes I do use it but not in polite company and I hope most of our members here aren't childish enough to have to stick the "F" bomb in every other word?     

I'm too am guilty of a lack of participation.  Since I became single late last Fall,  I've spent more time living in the real world as opposed to the cyber world. I've also been playing more, working on some new songs and trying to learn to sing properly. Then there's the whole dating thing at 60. It's a different world out there than it was the last time I was single.

On a whim,  I drove up to Boston last week to see Al Stewart. Of course I thought of our own JJJ but had no way to reach out to him since I don't use a "smartphone" and don't have his number.

I do stop in here a few times a week to see what everyone is doing but haven't been posting much. I'll try to do better.      

THAT IS NO EXAGGERATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  EVEN AT 51!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ITS ALL ABOUT BEING WEIGHED AND MEASURED AND COMPETING AGAINST GHOST, OR ANOTHER PERSON OR YOUR BANK ACCOUNT OR THE "BE MY TRAVEL AGENT AND PAY FOR OUR TRIPS, We have to be equal parts Burt Kicher and Robin Williams, daddy warbucks, and countless other criteria for  the thing now days.   

ok off my soap box!     

whats that number!???! LOLOLOLOLOL     

Since they are public numbers I don't see where this would violate any rules at Chordie

Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Visitor's Office: 202-456-2121

A lot of those scammers create multiple profiles. After I started responding that way ,  the number of scam messages dropped to almost zero. LOL!

Have fun.      

Regarding my comments on moderation, a member whose profile name included a profanity asked a question. I moved the post to a forum not visible to other members and notified other moderators that I was contacting the member to answer the question and to request reregistering under a different profile name. A different moderator banned the member before I could send a message. I was frustrated for being hamstrung in that way and let them know. Three moderators who I've known for ten years began insulting and presuming things about me as a result. I contacted the site owner for a call on the appropriate way to handle. He said he preferred my approach. The three continued the barrage on me. Three moderators quit over the treatment to which I was subjected for suggesting we treat members with courtesy. Two have come back, but only rarely and only at the insistence of Beamer, who wanted our input on some songs he had posted.

When three moderators quit on the same day because of the heavy handedness of other moderators, that's overmoderation. When moderation staff ignores the preference of the site owner to defend their heavy handedness, that's over moderation. How many moderators are listed for the site compared to non-moderating contributors? I haven't counted, but it's probably around 1:1. That's the predictable outcome.

I stand by my statement. We have few contributors because of overmoderation.     

Anybody heard from Upyerkilt, Old Doll, James Mc____ (can't remember his last name), Marcallan, Jerome outside of his niche in Theory and Recording, Topdown, BaldGuitarDude, or even me much lately? Some have left completely, and others have severely curtailed their participation over this issue. In the meanwhile, the site is safe for the possibility that one day Phill's grandchild might possibly come here and not be corrupted. But - so far as I know there isn't one shred of evidence suggesting that reading a profane word has actually corrupted anyone. So, good for us for protecting people who aren't here from something that is highly unlikely, I suppose.

I used my grandson as a simily, there is a new generation of musicians out there who should be encouraged not made to feel belittled by old hands squabbling over profanity. No one wants a load of spam popping up half way through reading the lyrics of a song...or do we?
As for banning members, did you inform the other mods to what you were doing?
On the other hand, people move on or pass on or have a grump with someone that was abusive or heavy handed.
It's not always an easy job.