epsilon75 wrote:Desert_Voyager wrote:24db wrote:
I think Rons statement fairly clearly shows where the problem lies, which is shame for the 99% of the forum members that always got along and didn't have to email the mods with abuse. Now everyone has lost a good place for information and a site to advertise their music, I still used to read it from time to time.
I don't. I think it is utterly biased, as the moderators enforced some very strange rules with instant bans.... and they gave rude messages.... and their clique were permitted to make extremely rude insinuations to some members, I am not surprised that their abuse was met back with abuse. Only the ones who didn't get banned because they went with the flow have lost "their" forum. I think that there will be another forum that will be dominated by sour grapes and "experts on everything" to take its place already.
You have hit the nail on the head there DV..........diehard members were allowed to get away with almost anything
Very true. They were allowed to break the "on the fly" rules (rules made on the fly used to ban whomever they wanted to).
I think that the forum didn't improve the sales figures for Groove that they'd had hoped. That's probably one main reason why they took down the forum. I even noticed those behind Groove signed up at the forum under assumed names to "praise" Groove label releases.
Those who had control over who controlled who was banned or not banned didn't seem interested in all views and thoughts about music. They just wanted to hawk their product.