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Like this do you mean Snowy???

goose wrote: Snow Dog wrote: ^ Of course they are real, thats why they have been ejected from the site! Are you saying if they weren't real they wouldn't have been ejected from the site?     When I first thought that it sounded funny. Where did the humour go between thinking and posting?

I'm not sure of your point Goose. I thought he was asking if people were current members were faking these profiles , it would be easy

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You see!

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Hmmm,nice.

I know who you are!   SS?

I also was checking in here since a long time, maybe last summer, but I didn't have the courage to subscribe (My english was a major concern). And I really feel it was different before I decided to enter as a regular member. Maybe I am part of `those annoying youngster, I don't know, but still, I hope no one will leave because of how it seem to be changing.

Maybe there could be a section only for people with over (100) posts. It's a lame solution, I know, but still you can avoid the ones just going here to make trouble then get away after. There probably is a kind of section like that already existing I am not aware of, because I am not a collaborator or reviewer...

^ Points well taken, Easy and Barbs -- thanks!

Still, for a cultured and sensitive new-age guy like myself , it's perhaps best that I minimize my time on those anarchic "wild west" public forums....

Personally Peter, I tend to steer clear of participating in the DNRTM threads myself. As a very general observation, I don't feel they add much to the site, and as you imply, just provide an outlet for pointless and often aggressive discussion. There have been a few exceptions, where intelligent debate has taken place, but even then I find them of limited value as I'm only here for the music.

It's easy enough just to ignore that section completely though.

As a whole, I think the discussion in the main prog lounge has been reasonably good of late, with the exception of the threads posted in the wrong place by people too lazy to think about where they belong, and all those dull "Rate my collection" threads.

I appreciate what you say about keeping to the CZ and PMs, but it is folk like you and rest of the old guard who can raise the quality of the discussions in the main forum, and set an example for others to follow.

Peter wrote: ... Does anyone else out there feel increasingly angered, depressed, and "de-motivated" when reading the barrage of outright twaddle that seems to typify this place these days?  It's "just a music forum," I know, but it USED to be a FUN place! BTW, I may just hunt down and kill the next person who writes "way overrated!"  Thoughts, anyone? Encouraging words?

I agree with you.  Although I haven't been a member for very long, I have been a frequent visitor to this site for nearly two years, and have enjoyed reading posts in the forum since it was created (Jan/Feb. 04).  It is sad to see this, but isn't the goal of this site to introduce many new people to the world of progressive rock?  Although there are the inevitable excesses, we must concentrate on the immense good that progarchives has done...I owe 99% of my prog knowledge/enjoyment to this wonderful site, and I'm sure there are many others. 

I wish that you decide to stay and post regularly, Mr. Rideout...because I very much enjoy reading your posts, along with all of the other "old-timers".

And I hope that I am not one of the "bad" one's that you refer to.