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Forum Maintenance Not A Concern Anymore

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We've had a few notifications of errors on the forum over time. Allow me to explain:

When we created this forum, we did it with the intention of having free political and religious speech added to the usual gear talk. And surprise surprise, some members abused this freedom. Also, we opened our doors to people on other forums who were complaining about the fascist leftist moderating going on over there.

We provided a safe space :lol: for people to talk freely in a reasonable manner without getting banned or have some woke snowflake report them to the mods behind their backs. Just like you do in a bar or pub. And all for fucking free.

But you know what? Nobody wanted it.

So we decided: fuck it. If the forum blows up, we don't care. We gave people a chance, and they shit all over it.

This forum will remain up as long as it functions. But we're not doing any maintenance. If there's information you think is important, grab it now.
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Best thing that could happen, really.

8-)

Every single one of these guitar gear sites is dead. No one is posting anything, except the bots and paid posters on the Vertical Scrote sites.

No one is playing - or can play for shit.

It's all just "guitar owners" talking about all manner of bullshit.. social media for guitar owners. :lol:

All these sites should go the way MetroAmp and PlexiPalace did..


:D poof :D
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PLX wrote: Wed Oct 01, 2025 11:31 am Best thing that could happen, really.

8-)

Every single one of these guitar gear sites is dead. No one is posting anything, except the bots and paid posters on the Vertical Scrote sites.

No one is playing - or can play for shit.

It's all just "guitar owners" talking about all manner of bullshit.. social media for guitar owners. :lol:

All these sites should go the way MetroAmp and PlexiPalace did..


:D poof :D
true.

www.rig-talk.com is 4 retarded homosexual guys, running ChatGPT bots and about 50 sock-puppet accounts. :lol:

thegearforum.com is 3 retarded homosexual guys, running ChatGPT bots and like 30 sock-puppet accounts. :lol:

thegearpage, marshallforum, TDPRI, MyLesPaul, and the rest of the Vertical Scope owned guitar forums are basically a handful of paid VS posters running sock puppets.. trolling the site and tryna to make the forum look like it's not dead.

thetonerooms is basically one guy running a handful of sock-puppet accounts, selling guitar straps, and welcoming every new bot and sock-puppet to the site. The most activity you'll see there is 7-page cry-fests about dead forumites that admittedly no one there actually knew, aside from posting online.

Birthday announcements for accounts that no longer even participate on the site, and a gay dude who's avatar is a picture of himself wearing a skirt and almost daily posting clips of himself playing 1930's era jazz guitar music. :lol:


Every one of these dysfunctional sites should just go away.

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ShredSquatch wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 4:25 pm www.rig-talk.com is 4 retarded homosexual guys, running ChatGPT bots and about 50 sock-puppet accounts. :lol:

thegearforum.com is 3 retarded homosexual guys, running ChatGPT bots and like 30 sock-puppet accounts. :lol:

thegearpage, marshallforum, TDPRI, MyLesPaul, and the rest of the Vertical Scope owned guitar forums are basically a handful of paid VS posters running sock puppets.. trolling the site and tryna to make the forum look like it's not dead.
the way they do it at all these sights is like this.. they train an AI chatbot to react to certain accounts in an adversarial mode.

what that means is, if you're that account, you can post something anytime of the day or night, holidays, whatever, and a "random" account will quote you and post negative, argumentative, and/or an insulting response to you.


how do they target who to apply this behaviour to? how does an account get flagged for this sort of negative attention/treatment?

when they detect your not one of them - i.e. a devil-worshipping homosexual man / or a Canadian. :idea:
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Mailman1971 wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 10:33 pm a devil-worshipping homosexual man / or a Canadian. :idea:
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japenus wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 10:43 pm
Mailman1971 wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 10:33 pm a devil-worshipping homosexual man / or a Canadian. :idea:
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one of them is really into hockey.
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Wait, what?
I figured you queens were into "neo-soul"?
Go figure...
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.. Speaking of "can't play for shit". :lol:
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At least I play.
Whether good or bad.
Built my amps.
Dont take a bunch of pics and buy overdrive pedals.
Not a bot.
Or a queer bot for that matter.

Hey PLX, seeing as youre on, have any want or need for those resistors like you showed on RigTalk when someone who was asking about wanting a power soak?
Those bigger, brass looking ones with the leg out each end?
Work gave me a bunch of new ones as they werent using them anymore.
I have no need and they cost me nothing...
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When we created this forum, we did it with the intention of having free political and religious speech added to the usual gear talk.

I really dont understand why these topics need to be on a guitar gear forum?
I may have made a comment or two, but never in all my years have these been topics id discuss.
Id rather go fishing, rip my moto or discuss why Zakk Wylde doesnt do Pride and Glory again...
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