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The # of posts was to illustrate that you have some spare time. Nothing more. I know you won't believe me, but that is what I meant...pro bono work, and you have the time.

Why are you so angry?

When one does have a lot of time and/or does not have a mean to have other fun due to various reasons, such as financial or physical constraints etc, hanging out in PW is an ideal place to have fun. Writing a personal blog is also fun too, for example writing about one's journey on learning piano etc.

When one does have a lot of time and/or does not have a mean to have other fun due to various reasons, such as financial or physical constraints etc, hanging out in PW is an ideal place to have fun. Writing a personal blog is also fun too, for example writing about one's journey on learning piano etc.

I agree, but like rocket88 noticed, this extra time often turns what should be occasional fun into anger (and frustration) when said time is too much and poster too frustrated for whatever reason.

You'd think a forum about piano and music would be friendly, but the Internet is so often used to vent, no matter what the topic. So it's best to ignore such posts/posters IMO, because they do neither you nor the poster any good bickering back and forth.

A lot of anger out there in the world these days, manifested all over the place in many different ways, and it's sad to see. But venting on the Internet is innocent compared to how others handle their frustrations (i.e crime, etc.).

How venting on the Internet takes away from other more traditional (and dangerous) venting outlets would make for an interesting undergraduate psychology course.

Now back to the topic at hand..

RonaldSteinway and Alexb are two people who've had altercations with me via PM. Alexb just sent me one yesterday telling me that he was going to warn everybody on PW about me and how I was insincere and what not. RonaldSteinway even called me dumb and crazy via PM and seemingly he hasn't even received a warning from a mod though I reported him when he started calling me names via PM. He wouldn't be trying to pick up a fight again by posting ONE post in a huge thread targeting just me if the mods had done something at that time (I apologize if you already did warn him and he is doing in spite of your warning). The same goes for Alexb. These are troublemakers. I will not directly address them here. If one of the mods do happen to pass by, I'd like to ask you if this behavior is acceptable. Here is this long drawn out discussion with opinions coming from two valid sides and suddenly pops up two people who apparently have personal problems with one of the posters and chooses posts directed against him or made by him to make one (or two) solitary comment on, completely irrelevant to the topic.

I'm posting this here out in the open instead of just notifying them to the mods because I usually don't know if there was any follow up. So I'll leave it out here so that people can decide whether or not to take them seriously. Alexb acts as though he's a saint, advocating people to ignore angry posters. However, only hypocrites do what he does: Warn somebody over PM that they are going to "expose your insincerity to the world", and then make hateful posts in the public forum, doing exactly what he supposedly hates in what I'm doing!

I'm sorry that the other readers have to read this but I really didn't think a private notification to a mod was going to do anything to these guys. Sorry mods.. I know you are doing a great job, and that too unpaid work. So you probably don't get the time to take care of every little issue that every person has on this forum. So I chose not to bother you this time.