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Tommy CUlt · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 156

.... so, to sum up, it would seem the use of backing tracks is both acceptable and widespread - even some professional acoustic players use or consider using them. Smile

Not every person in SL will like every musicians music (go figure Razz

) Most of all - have fun at what you do. This is SL, a place where people get to do things they may never have done in RL - sometimes this point is lost Wink

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Bourque Rau · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 58 Location: south carolina

anyone who performs in SL/RL is "putting it out there", expressing, sharing, creating ... I'm flummoxed about how their choice of performance is derided by some in both worlds. (And I ponder "is there a similar discussion for those musicians who ONLY play an instrument but don't sing?" ... )

Art/music is subjective, more so than most other endeavors we undertake.

I have my preferences, I rarely revisit a performer who doesn't suit me, there are genres of music that my ear doesn't crave. But if I'm in earshot of such a performance I always applaud and appreciate the effort.

in RL and SL, however, an artist of any genre whose work I may adore (whether music, art, literature, film) will find me absent from future performances if their off stage expressions, GRANTING them full right to express! ... pains me too deeply. 'cause I grant myself full right to miss out on experiences I might otherwise enjoy for sake of personal harmony.
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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1175 Location: Rhode Island

Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1175 Location: Rhode Island

I'm not going to respond to what von Johin said. The next logical step based on his escalation would be to rip him up musically as he did for the second time with me but what's the point. He writes like he's paid by the word so there's no possible chance of winning any forum battle anyway.
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EvaMoon · Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 449

Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1175 Location: Rhode Island

I've canceled all gigs in SL and will confine my activities to Eden. I trust this will be sufficient.
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vonjohin · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 458 Location: Nashville, TN

For the record, I sent Silas several PM, the last of which sat unanswered for six weeks before I finally deleted it from being undelivered, asking him to cool it, take off the mean ad hoc things he said about me. He didn't want to answer or reply. The ad hoc insults remained. I asked for mod help. The mods never answered the PM, or even opened it, for over six weeks. I asked for help, here and in-world with him. I asked his "friends" to say something to him, ask him to tone it down. They would only say "Silas has issues" or "He's prone to these kind of things and they don't endear him to many." Help though, I could not get it.

Perhaps this time, the second time, that Silas has posted mean things about this forum, the people who "run" SL music in general, etc. and vowed to stay away it will really happen. When he did the mean insults last time, he ran away to his blog, posted nasty stuff about this forum and the people who use it, and stayed away about a week. Then he took that down from his site, hoping you wouldn't know, and came back to stir the pot.

If the mod had read the PM I sent, they would have seen I was trying very hard to take the high road and rise above this, but they never opened the PMs. Before Silas pushed, again and again like a taunting cyberbully, I never before returned fire. I always replied with "that was uncalled for" and tried to be adult about it. Six weeks, on only one of the worst examples of his nastiness, I watched my name get smeared for nothing. Nothing. After getting called on the carpet, he finally apologized.

I am not given to outburst like that. Silas pushed too far. I am sorry, to everyone but Silas, that I did this and they had to see it. If he thinks posting mean, ad hoc things about people is fair game to have left online and show up in Google searches, so be it. Now he has his own nice collection of mean things out there for people to find if they ever wanted to search for him.

If there is no moderation of mean, nasty, ad hoc insults to other posters, then the unfortunate result is that when a poster gets attacked he either lets the attack stay, which is then spidered by Google, and it is there forever, or it gets removed and hopefully falls off the search. Optionally, they are left to defend themselves. Finally, I defended myself. I've had to experience this in Google because Silas is a mean person who says mean things, so now he gets a taste of his own meds. Spider on, Google.

Again, I am sorry to everyone here for my outburst. I have never done this before and I don't see me every doing it again.

I will only add that WHEN I SEE HIS insults removed in their entirety, I will edit these posts to nothing. Its up to him. He threw the first punches in this battle he wanted with me. He can take the postings down.

ticious · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 2070 Location: Chicago

vonjohin · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 458 Location: Nashville, TN

Its a wonderful quote. I like it. I tried the concept. The taunting continued.
Silas is a cyberbully. This is why he launches ad hoc attacks on people. Not just me. Oh, its far from just me. Read what he says to others, and to what he says to people not even here to defend themselves, like for example, Moody. Its a shame. The mods know where the line is drawn without having to get into minutia. The line is common courtesy. Its stuff we learned, or should have learned, in kindergarten. If you wouldn't want it said about you, you shouldn't say it about somebody else.

The only problem with Tacitus's approach is that he didn't factor in the 21st century and Google. The abuse no longer gradually dies away. It stays forever on the Internet, indexed, crawled and spidered for all to see. This is what makes moderation of ad hoc insults, mean-spirited, nasty things said to others in what is supposed to be a "community" a good thing.

I am, again, sorry for the outburst. I should not respond to a bully, it makes it worse. Every man has his breaking point. He broke me. I crossed that line. To you and the others, I apologize.