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Re: Who's Our Daddy (grand that is)

Author: msloss
Date: 2004-12-28 02:17

Hank, this is partly observation, and partly from actually speaking with some of the pros who have wandered off over time:

Three basic things seem to be going on. (1) Some of the denizens of the board have been disrespectful of good advice given by those qualified to give it, whether under pseudonym or not. Since they are essentially giving freely what they would otherwise charge a great deal for in a studio setting, that is hardly cricket. And yes, I think some of those snipers may have made Mr. Charette's very short list.

(2) Perhaps related to the first, there has been plenty of unqualified advice dispensed that drowns out the valuable good stuff. Those who speak loud enough and often enough tend to win in these public forums. Again, certain folks just won't give any more of their time in that environment.

(3) The triteness (if that isn't a word, let's make it one for today) of some of the posts limits the level of interest on the part of some of the former valuable participants in our discourse. We certainly should not take ourselves too seriously, and the humor makes this board truly enjoyable. What I speak of is the periodic reappearance of "What did you name your clarinet" and threads of similar ilk. Hardly the kind of critical discussion that merits the attention of the pros.

This board is a free market of ideas and discussion, and I credit Mark and Glenn for keeping their editorial scalpels holstered for the most part. I myself enjoy the community environment and trying to help out where I can. I do greatly regret though that we have lost the participation of some very high profile artists both named and unnamed due at least in part to the unprofessionalism of the environment.

I have harbored wishes of seeing the pros come back, and contemplated ways we could make this happen. Perhaps there could be "uberposters" who have the curriculum vitae to answer and discuss on critical topics who would be the go-to and even final word on certain posts. Even more hopeful, but I'm sure well beyond the amount of time our gracious hosts care to spend on this, I would love to see a subset of posts that would be more tightly controlled for content where users could post questions and those "uberposters" would be the only ones cleared to provide answers. Other members can pose followup questions, but overall the content is limited to master class/seminar level discussion and we quietly listen to the experts.

A bulletin board fantasia for a Monday evening.

Cheers.

Mark Sloss

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