Increase Forum Drama of late?

[TampIt]

Did you get The Triffids into the studio?

G'day Barry O'Speedwagon

Nope - acoustic songwriters & groups, not electric, and I only recorded our "once a month" guest nights - the other evenings were "whoever showed up". These days I wish I had recorded a few of the electric ones... like that busker in Freo that was so, so good on electric dobro (JB). We ran it non profit - although I sprang for all the tape costs out of my second business (tax ruling) / hobby (my take).

I did manage to get a few international / interstate visitors there as well as locals - I always gave them a free cassette of their gig, and quite a few released it as a limited edition to those in the trade (or in the know). I still have quite a few Harmon Kardon cassette decks in storage from that process (I did all cassettes in real time into a wall of separate decks using Maxell and TDK cassette tapes).

Nowadays we know that Ampex 10" Grand Master open reel tapes had faulty glue on their substrate for the last ten+ years before they went broke. About 2/3rds (200) of my tapes are Ampex, so recovering what I can will be a priority once my new build is finished. Luckily the other 100 or so are Maxell, TDK and Memorex - they should be OK. Ironically, the cassettes may now be better than those Ampex open reels (damn it). Losing my music room was such a disaster in more ways than one - I had only just started transferring all my recordings to "best digital at the time" 44/16. At least new ones will eventually be done at 192/24 or higher so they should be a rough equivalent to the open reels in sound quality (CDs just aren't even close). Not a bad achievement for a finance / IT / auditing dude I guess.

Now back to a cuppa (ahhhhh)


TampIt

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

G'day simonsk8r

At $6 per month (i.e. peppercorn) rent whilst the renovations were happening it attracted a lot of "different" interest groups who lacked the finances to be elsewhere. In hindsight I reckon part of the dysfunction was the sobering fact that their rent would "at the very least" quadruple when the restore was completed. Ex1 suggested I use the recording studio the day after it was finished in March 1983 - the fact that she had drawn the short straw and attended the committee meeting that evening was "a mere coincidence" (yeah sure..., however that is what she said).

Now you mention it Monty Python could have covered a real meeting as a skit and no one would believe it was actual reality.

Tamp"the things we get ourselves into when we are younger"It

Did you get The Triffids into the studio?

[TampIt]

Haha woooow... that could almost be a skit... not a very pleasant or well thought out grouping of people huh!

G'day simonsk8r

At $6 per month (i.e. peppercorn) rent whilst the renovations were happening it attracted a lot of "different" interest groups who lacked the finances to be elsewhere. In hindsight I reckon part of the dysfunction was the sobering fact that their rent would "at the very least" quadruple when the restore was completed. Ex1 suggested I use the recording studio the day after it was finished in March 1983 - the fact that she had drawn the short straw and attended the committee meeting that evening was "a mere coincidence" (yeah sure..., however that is what she said).

Now you mention it Monty Python could have covered a real meeting as a skit and no one would believe it was actual reality.

Tamp"the things we get ourselves into when we are younger"It

[simonsk8r]

G'day Yelta

You have (curse you Red Baron...) reminded me of an interest group of my misspent youth. We were renting a room (cheaply) as a non profit registered organisation. The venue was part of a large historic / heritage listed hotel which also required a moderate amount of restoration activity from every member group with a room.

Try being a "forced member" of a 32 member committee made of of 32 wildly different interest groups who each had a room or three. The acoustic music club I was involved with at the time used to literally draw straws to decide which victim... er person... had to attend each week.

Needless to say the Cannabis Law Reform Society did not agree often with the British Returned Soldiers League, who hated the (female Tamil) Sri Lankan Dance Society who despised the "artist in the attic" for the revolving door of femme fatales (I reckon he used to bring a different one each week to alleviate the monotony), who disliked the (elderly) Embroidery Society (ladies), who had major issues with the (young) local glassblower as her fumes were stuffing up their work... the list went on and on and on. Honestly, it was the most dysfunctional committee I have ever attended - and no, they did not enjoy the "verbal cut and thrust" as each member was convinced that their only point of view was the only valid one in the room. The previous meetings' minutes not only took well over an hour to be accepted, physical blows were all too common. Even the Oz pollies question time is a milder version of some weeks (yep, weekly meetings - shudder).

Needless to say, some of the restoration work was "interesting" rather than good quality. No wonder I also used my newly designed and built "recording studio" each week in lieu of facing that lot after a few months. Compared to that, hosting up to seventy people at home was a breeze for the next 15 years.

CS at its worst is only about 10% of the sheer viciousness of that lot.

Enjoy your cuppa - and no thanks for dredging up that particular repressed memory from my distant past.


TampIt

Haha woooow... that could almost be a skit... not a very pleasant or well thought out grouping of people huh!

[TampIt]

I'm a member of another forum inhabited mainly by oldies, if your looking for an argument that's the place to be, members come and go through a revolving door, either because they've been banned or pissed off.

A grumpier, more argumentative, irascible, perpetually offended group I've yet to encounter, I suspect they thoroughly enjoy the verbal cut and thrust.

G'day Yelta

You have (curse you Red Baron...) reminded me of an interest group of my misspent youth. We were renting a room (cheaply) as a non profit registered organisation. The venue was part of a large historic / heritage listed hotel which also required a moderate amount of restoration activity from every member group with a room.

Try being a "forced member" of a 32 member committee made of of 32 wildly different interest groups who each had a room or three. The acoustic music club I was involved with at the time used to literally draw straws to decide which victim... er person... had to attend each week.

Needless to say the Cannabis Law Reform Society did not agree often with the British Returned Soldiers League, who hated the (female Tamil) Sri Lankan Dance Society who despised the "artist in the attic" for the revolving door of femme fatales (I reckon he used to bring a different one each week to alleviate the monotony), who disliked the (elderly) Embroidery Society (ladies), who had major issues with the (young) local glassblower as her fumes were stuffing up their work... the list went on and on and on. Honestly, it was the most dysfunctional committee I have ever attended - and no, they did not enjoy the "verbal cut and thrust" as each member was convinced that their only point of view was the only valid one in the room. The previous meetings' minutes not only took well over an hour to be accepted, physical blows were all too common. Even the Oz pollies question time is a milder version of some weeks (yep, weekly meetings - shudder).

Needless to say, some of the restoration work was "interesting" rather than good quality. No wonder I also used my newly designed and built "recording studio" each week in lieu of facing that lot after a few months. Compared to that, hosting up to seventy people at home was a breeze for the next 15 years.

CS at its worst is only about 10% of the sheer viciousness of that lot.

Enjoy your cuppa - and no thanks for dredging up that particular repressed memory from my distant past.


TampIt

[Yelta]

I'm a member of another forum inhabited mainly by oldies, if your looking for an argument that's the place to be, members come and go through a revolving door, either because they've been banned or pissed off.

A grumpier, more argumentative, irascible, perpetually offended group I've yet to encounter, I suspect they thoroughly enjoy the verbal cut and thrust.

[BobSac]

I'm sorry MB, I won't do it again

I used to own and run a forum, so I know how much work it can be and appreciate what they are when they te good. I don't know what you're talking about because imo there's little going on here that isn't friendly, it's one of the better forums around.

I don't think you're ever going to be free of the types that like to be troublesome unfortunately

[Yelta]

Thanks.
PS: I have never reported a post that "Report Post" way, although I probably should have on occasion. Nice to know it is there anyway.

I have, report post and Add to ignore list, handy tools.

[TampIt]

It's a seasonal thing.

Every winter humans get narky (cold, wet, lack of daylight - I don't know) but we've seen the pattern over many years.
I have to say we do an awesome job of dealing with it, even if you don't see what we are doing behind the scenes and you would be surprised just how much you never see.

We are also contactable, the easiest way to deal with a problem is to use the "Report Post" triangle under every post. That sends an email to myself and Javaphile and we typically discuss what we should do (ie: let it run its course or delete or watch or warn etc). We usually don't contact the person that reports the post (only so much time in a life) but we do deal with every report.

If you see something you think is wrong, report it.

G'day Andy

"I have to say we do an awesome job of dealing with it, even if you don't see what we are doing behind the scenes and you would be surprised just how much you never see."
Yep, having to do the same thing on another, far less friendly site I reckon you deserve a bow. Awesome job indeed.

Thanks.

TampIt
PS: I have never reported a post that "Report Post" way, although I probably should have on occasion. Nice to know it is there anyway.

[simonsk8r]

Tea is better than coffee.




*oh no whaaaaat have I dooooooone :s *

[Mb21]

Herzog and Yelta have sort of summed up both sides of why my post was made. New person (new or low / irregular poster) makes a post, regular poster reply, a bit of back and forth and then it just continues with bickering for posts on end. Just wish people would take it off line to discuss or simply realise that new person doesn’t want to / can’t see the other point of view and we chalk that up as waste of time posting to help and job done.
i should learn to not read the carry on but I don’t think CoffeeSnobs what like the comments section of Facebook.

[Mb21]

I personally don’t have an issue with that Erimus as coffeesnobs forum isn’t something that life critical or the like but is disrespectful and annoying to not be a decent person and not be civil / have the ability to take disagreement behind closed doors (PM). Makes me wonder how some people would be in a work environment.
enough whinging from me off the read some positive and help stuff!

[Erimus]

There is no drama because the iffy posts have been deleted to protect the guilty one.

[Javaphile]

Get popcorn ready^

Java "Popcorn, check!" phile

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Get popcorn ready^

Why don't you report Andy to himself, and see what happens? Tell him he's being very proprietorial.