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Old 04-03-2007, 06:32 PM
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I'm starting to get fed up with small minded, petty bullies on virtually every bass forum I go to - including the one I run!!

Oh please don't ever let this one tolerate pointless pedantry, antisocial behaviour and cliquey-ness!!

I remember even on The Bottom Line, there was one guy who was an admin who got on everyone's nerves by his exhaustive battling over the most irrelevant points of fact. There's also a member of Bassworld who resigned from being a mod because we'd recieved too many complaints about him antagonising members. We pointed out to him that we'd recieved complaints, that it was making the rest of the team look bad and so asked him what he would be prepared to do. Instead of stepping up to the plate and working with us, he quit instead. Now I believe he's circulating a photo on Talkbass taken from my myspace page which has been retouched to make it look obscene. Ironically, the more he does things like this the more justified I feel in the approach we took with him.

I've alerted the mods on that particular forum on Talkbass but... ...well, I guess all 4 of them aren't not on the internet all the time, are they?

Speaking of Talkbass, I posted a fairly innocuous enquiry about what kinds of basses there are out there which sound like a 70's jazz bass and at the point where the thread starts winding down, I post the bass that I decided to get and one particular user decides to start having a bit of a go at me. I try to reason but get nowhere. So I point out to him that he's just point scoring, but that's like trying to reason with a slow motion avalanche of cold porridge (oatmeal to you merrycans). I didn't do anything to deserve such dreadful treatment! I felt like I was being bullied!

I'm also a bit upset because one of my team at work had a serious stroke over the weekend and he's completely paralysed down his left side. It all feels like its getting on top of me at the moment.
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Old 04-03-2007, 07:37 PM
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Steve, sorry to hear about your workmate.
You should spend more time on the Down Here (NZ) thread where everyone loves you.
I know I speak for Stan... and 2nd fiddle Rob.

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Old 04-04-2007, 12:21 PM
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Thanks Richard. One of my team recieved a quick phone call from him yesterday (while the nurses weren't looking) and he seems to be recovering. Apparently he just suddenly came over weak on Saturday and collapsed into a chair. They suspect that a stroke was the cause.
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Old 04-04-2007, 01:34 PM
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Steve, sorry to hear about your workmate.
You should spend more time on the Down Here (NZ) thread where everyone loves you.
I know I speak for Stan... and 2nd fiddle Rob.

Your pal Richard
Hi Steve. I hope your co-worker is recovering. Strokes are pretty bad and they usually hit two in a row, so be prepared.

For the time, Master Ken has a very civil environment here. So refreshing. So how's the Celinder doing? I didn't keep up with that thread after you purchased. I read up to that point and thought it probably sounded like you got a good J-bass type. It's so strange what people will jump on. I tend to think all Fenders and the copies sound pretty much the same and I don't dare get into that with the Fender heads at TB. Way too much superstition about it all. Of course I have an old P, and it sounds great;- when someone that knows how to play plays it. When a guitarist picks it up, it will make one wonder.

Part of TB is just knowing when to say, OK, whatever. I'm biting on the argumentative types a lot less often over there. It's good practice when someone tries to poke to just let it go. There are reasonable people there also. Sometimes I think the arguments are started just to keep a thread on page 1. And the whole thing seems to be some huge bass marketing hypothetical lately. If you had $1K, and already owned every possible configuration of strings and frets and pick-ups in existence, which SadullaFodulus would you put a down payment on? Get Real!
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Old 04-04-2007, 02:04 PM
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Hi David, my colleague doesn't seem too upset - he's a very humble guy with an ironic sense of humour. He keeps to himself and seems to have endless reserves of patience so working with him is a breeze. Plus he's very experienced and I can chuck just about any project his way and know that he'll wrestle with it and nail it down somehow. I'm just glad that he seems to be in good spirits.

As for Talkbass, I've gotten Paul involved and so far he's on my side. He did suggest that I was mud slinging as much as the others, but I refuted this given that the topic was my motives for the purchase and I had the right to assert my opinion as fact. Toasted is just emotionally-stunted and lacks any degree of humility. Lets say no more on that. I'm getting fed up with taking cr*p over Bassworld so I may well make this forum the only one I use if the other BW mods don't intervene on my behalf. Looks like I have to book a date in a diary for the TB mods to respond. So slow! We're like lightning on Bassworld by comparison!

Anyways, the Celinder is pretty good. It does a great impersonation of Marcus Miller's bass but I'm not a great fan of Jazz basses if the truth be known. While they're oomphy and snappy, I miss the lower midrange power that Smiths and Musicman basses deliver. I use the Smiths as my every day, first call basses and then the 4 strings I own are all supposed to deliver 'classic' funk bass sounds. I got the Celinder bass simply because I'm setting up a band where the sound is going to be useful for particular songs.

FWIW, I revamped my website over the weekend and added pics:
http://www.freewebs.com/crazykiwi_bass/mybasses.htm

The Celinder is shown there also.
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Old 04-04-2007, 03:25 PM
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BTW - does anyone else agree that moderating can be a thankless task at times?
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Old 04-04-2007, 03:56 PM
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BTW - does anyone else agree that moderating can be a thankless task at times?
I know that keeping the Down Here (NZ0 thread moving along can be tough, especially when Stan Haskins isn't pulling his weight.
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