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Post subject: Gibson Forums Shut Down
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:31 pm
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Went to log onto the Gibson Forums sight this morning. It's been shut down.
Probably because of the content of some of the posts lately. Everyone complaining about Censorship and then some redneck good'ol boy goes off on a racists, homophobic, profanity laced tirade.
Anyway, it's down. :cry:


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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:32 pm
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Great, hope they don't get bored and spam this forum to death. :(


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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:37 pm
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If users dont follow the Troll's game everything would be OK. The problem is that when people start a conversation with them everything just felt down... dont feed the trolls, that's what we have to do...!

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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:39 pm
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That sucks for the people that use it properly.

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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:43 pm
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Brad and FMIC will not let that happen here! And we will help report it!


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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:49 pm
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Have to be honest here guys, I had my Les Paul before any of my Fenders. So naturally I used the gibson forum before this one, I think I made about 5 post's in total. Not the friendliest forum on the net, it has to be said. I'm sure there were some genuine folks there, I just didn't connect with them. Like the previous poster has already said, I hope they don't come here for their kix. However if we do start seeing such threads, I say "radio silenece" and just report them to admin. Just my 2 cents worth :D


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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:53 pm
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Not to change the subject but I hope you are having a great day Snowy!! :D


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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:53 pm
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It's a shame that they closed down the whole forum and not just hte topics that were causing the trouble. I don't want to guess what kind of poster frequent the Gibson pages, but I would hope that the Fender Posters are a little more civil and less destructive towards the guitar community and society in general.


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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:01 pm
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I've been on some mean forums in the past (auto), and believe me, some of those people get really really nasty.

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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:11 pm
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Darkly Dreaming wrote:
That sucks for the people that use it properly.


This......

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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:45 pm
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It's back up now.

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Hope they've tightened the rules concerning profanity and flame wars! :?


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It looks open to me.

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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:59 pm
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cvilleira wrote:
It looks open to me.


You ought to be able to tell with those spy glasses you have CV! :lol:


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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:02 pm
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Yeah, I'm surprised to here that it's down and somewhat sad. Somehow it seems to give a victory to the bad guys.
A warning for us perhaps, to keep on top of things here, they may migrate to this site and like fhop said, we can help Brad and ourselves by reporting any socially degrading misdemeanours with all possible dispatch.
Cheers.... :D

Oh!...it's back up, right.


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