Absent Friends & Missing Persons

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

My thanks to Alpie for removing some of the more irrelevant comments - but further Posts that aren't about "Absent Persons & Missing Friends" will also be removed from this point on.

I trust everyone will understand why.

[Hornspieler]

My thanks to Alpie for removing some of the more irrelevant comments - but further Posts that aren't about "Absent Persons & Missing Friends" will also be removed from this point on.

I trust everyone will understand why.

[Pulcinella]

If this is a forum where pointing out that a contributor who makes personal attacks is likely to make people leave is to be censored then I think I will go away and consider whether I want to remain a part of it .

Beef Oven called Alain - bigoted and prejudiced simply for expressing a view that the UK was of less interest to him since the vote for Brexit- yet his posting was allowed to remain . It seems that the troll can do what he likes on this forum with very limited action from moderators .

I have indeed gone away. (Before anyone points out the inconsistency, of course I have had to come back to post this!)
I guess I can still be contacted via a PM so long as I actually remain a member.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It is a great shame that the "Absent Friends" Thread is turning into "Present Foes". It would be a much greater shame if everybody who has suggested that they might leave (on this Thread and by PM) actually did so - but naming names and calling others "Trolls" is not the best way of communicating one's disapproval of another Forumista's behaviour in the Forum. The potential damage to the Forum here is considerable - but, to be honest, I do not see the point of its existence if this is all it's going to become. There was a suggestion that the Forum might close at the time when FoR3 closed and frenchie wanted to step down. At that time I thought that the Forum was important enough to its members for there to be a need for its continuation. Perhaps that was naive, and we should have let it go the way of other similar online chatrooms.

If Forumistas - all of us - wish to continue, we're going to have to put others who perpetually upset us on "ignore", and keep them there. The Forum is valuable to us all (for some of us even "invaluable") as a means of keeping in contact with others who share our interests across the country and beyond. Because of the Forum, I can discuss in depth matters that aren't of interest to most of the people I know - I suspect that that is true of others. And that has meant online conversation and banter with both BeefO and Barbs - as have most other Forumistas, both of whom have started some of the most popular and longest-running Threads here.

I presume that nobody wants the Forum to close. This is bringing it as close as it has ever been to doing so. Please reconsider.

Thank you.

[gurnemanz]

How sad that the poison which Brexit has unleashed upon our country should extend even to our classical music board.

[ahinton]

My thanks to Alpie for removing some of the more irrelevant comments - but further Posts that aren't about "Absent Persons & Missing Friends" will also be removed from this point on.

I trust everyone will understand why.

I should certainly hope so; after all, what is it about adherence to the topic Absent Friends & Missing Persons that's so hard to understand?...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

How sad that the poison which Brexit has unleashed upon our country should extend even to our classical music board.

I agree. I think we need to acknowledge that this is a matter that we won't achieve consensus on, and just move on to discuss the many other matters that we can remain friendly about.

Like Exposition repeats.

[ahinton]

It is a great shame that the "Absent Friends" Thread is turning into "Present Foes". It would be a much greater shame if everybody who has suggested that they might leave (on this Thread and by PM) actually did so - but naming names and calling others "Trolls" is not the best way of communicating one's disapproval of another Forumista's behaviour in the Forum. The potential damage to the Forum here is considerable - but, to be honest, I do not see the point of its existence if this is all it's going to become. There was a suggestion that the Forum might close at the time when FoR3 closed and frenchie wanted to step down. At that time I thought that the Forum was important enough to its members for there to be a need for its continuation. Perhaps that was naive, and we should have let it go the way of other similar online chatrooms.

If Forumistas - all of us - wish to continue, we're going to have to put others who perpetually upset us on "ignore", and keep them there. The Forum is valuable to us all (for some of us even "invaluable") as a means of keeping in contact with others who share our interests across the country and beyond. Because of the Forum, I can discuss in depth matters that aren't of interest to most of the people I know - I suspect that that is true of others. And that has meant online conversation and banter with both BeefO and Barbs - as have most other Forumistas, both of whom have started some of the most popular and longest-running Threads here.

I presume that nobody wants the Forum to close. This is bringing it as close as it has ever been to doing so. Please reconsider.

Thank you.

Hear, hear!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I really miss Third Viennese School. Still.

[ahinton]

I agree. I think we need to acknowledge that this is a matter that we won't achieve consensus on, and just move on to discuss the many other matters that we can remain friendly about.

Like Exposition repeats.

Quite. As long as there's no Exposition repeat of Brexit!

[vinteuil]

I agree. I think we need to acknowledge that this is a matter that we won't achieve consensus on, and just move on to discuss the many other matters that we can remain friendly about.

Like Exposition repeats.

... if you think people here can remain friendly about Exposition Repeats - just wait until discussion returns to Double Dotting - to Notes Inégales - One Voice Per Part - Vibrato....




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[ahinton]

... if you think people here can remain friendly about Exposition Repeats - just wait until discussion returns to Double Dotting - to Notes Inégales - One Voice Per Part - Vibrato....

...to say nothing of playing keyboard music by J S Bach, his contemporaries and forebears on modern Steinways, Bösendorfers and the like.

That said, I humbly submit that it's not about whether Forumites can remain friendly in such discussions but whether they do...

Mind you, notes inégales might prove to be more of a problem than the other instances to the extent that it could be argued to be a manifestation of inequalities in society...

Ahem.

Coat's on already...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A useful rule of thumb is that it's OK to disagree with another poster, but not to attack the poster personally.




And keep off politics.

[Serial_Apologist]

Mind you, notes inégales might prove to be more of a problem than the other instances to the extent that it could be argued to be a manifestation of inequalities in society...

Or could be one meaning for the existence of serial apologists!

[ahinton]

Or could be one meaning for the existence of serial apologists!

I'm not so sure about that; after all, aren't the twelve tones supposed to be equal to one another?(!)...