Burning Reflection wrote:Jens I hate to say it, but if what you posted is true, I'm giving up on following RR until something of real substance comes out.
Maybe it's because I got wasted as hell and saw Ensiferum and Necrophagist last night, but I feel a pretty bad headache right now. It's like I wake up to check up on my favorite bands and I get a headache...pretty lame imo
thanks and good looking out Jens
Well it seems like "someone" reacted to what I wrote now.
I don't know any of it to be factually true, but I certainly do see a pattern. This is the second time with RR I've seen the same thing. (And I myself am a bit ashamed to say that I caused an obscure error page to go up on stratovarius.com back in 2004 based on the same idea of TT's.)
You have to admit its rather plausible. I mean, normally if you have the time to take a site offline and redesign it, you also have time to warn the users. Moreover, you also have time to delete spam, and reply to obviously incorrect information such as "I heard from TT's brother that he's quitting the business" or whatever the hell it was. For instance, deleting all the spam by one user takes a few seconds.
This thread only has a couple of hundred views and I'll guess I'll move it to "flames" now so it's only readable by registered users and doesn't get indexed by google, but anyway -- if I see the same retarded ploy being used now for the third time, and I post something, and I can bait those dudes into not wasting their (and their fans') time and energy with that kind of games then I am happy.
I admit it sounds rather difficult to get involved and stay "following" a band as a fan when they sort of yank the carpet (on purpose) multiple times. I saw some people putting quite a lot of emotional energy into posting thoughtful things and making that new RR forum a decent place. But maybe they'll just delete all of it. (.. also, like the old RR forum and that ancient tolkki.com forum which also was deleted, twice as a matter of fact if I remember)
( Note that the previous paragraph is again just a friendly attempt to bait them not to make the mistake of deleting the old forum, but to instead just delete the spam they let in and leave it up

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