Hey, I'm just talking about making every thread about YOU (and your amazing insights, superior intelect, and BETTER approaches or solutions to EVERY forum situation (performance, recording, instrument feature, playing technique, etc., etc., etc.). Maybe there's a place where only ONE person's opinion is always the only correct one and is ALWAYS superior to anything anyone else may think or say, but I haven't found it yet.

If there is ONE SURE THING that will kill a forum and stifle membership, it's boredom...and the presence of ONE dominant individual who seems to participate ONLY to display his IMAGINED superior knowledge and intellect for the rest of us mere mortals to be amazed and inspired by. It's not that individuals don't have anything to offer, au contraire, it's more about the smug, condescending way in which they impart it.

There used to be a lot of colorful characters on this forum, some smart, some dumb, and some in-between. Some were likable, some not so much, but the one thing they had in common is that they made it feel like a community and not a place where everything was an intellectual exercise presided over by a grand wizard with a slew of HI-TECH suggestions that a bunch of elderly LO-TECH forumites were NEVER going to try. I think that approach has been tried without success on other start-up Arranger forums.

The Arranger world is small enough as it is, let's not make it smaller by intimidating existing and prospective new members with the feeling that there is no joy to be found here, just the one thing that can kill all forums, single source dominance. If a post is technical, then a technical response is in order. If it's 'social', let's keep it social.

Of course, as usual, this is just MY opinion, and as such, is worth what most opinions are worth....ZIP.

chas