I swore to myself that I wouldn't post any HC stuff here but....

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/De...ouncement-About-Harmony-Central/ba-p/35464945

[h=2]Important Announcement About Harmony Central[/h]by Dendy Jarrett yesterday

Dear Harmony Central Community Member:

Harmony Central has been getting a lot of attention lately—the forum structure is back to a familiar environment, the Home page focuses on editorial (with the return of the ever-popular news feed), and many User Reviews are back. (Most reviews dating back to 1996 are also in the database, however they are not being searched properly. We’re working on this, and hope to resolve this issue soon.)

Harmony Central’s Mission Statement is “Educating, entertaining, and empowering the world’s largest online community of musicians.” Unfortunately, for several years Harmony Central has been banned from public schools, libraries, music conservatories, university music departments, and the like. Additionally, various ad agencies have refused to advertise due to the extreme nature of some forums, as well as language.
This needs to change, because it costs money to provide a community like Harmony Central—and it’s discouraging that some institutions aren’t even allowed to know we exist. Furthermore, Harmony Central recently became Safe Harbor Certified, allowing musicians as young as 13 to have access to the site. The next generation needs to be able to tap Harmony Central’s incredible expertise.

Therefore, we need to provide a more civilized environment across all of the forums. Starting Thursday, the Off Topic forums will become Opt-In forums that require you to request access. Once you’ve been granted access, you’ll see them on the forums list just like you always have, and will see no difference going forward even though they’ll be hidden from general users.

Also, over the weekend we’ll be turning on a limited language filter (for the non-hidden forums) to restrict language that’s not appropriate in a public setting. The bottom line is that Harmony Central will be shifting to a PG-13 status as of Friday, May 24th, 2013.

We hope you will embrace these positive changes, and that they will improve your experience at Harmony Central. As always, thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Dendy Jarrett



Director of Harmony Central Communities, for Team Harmony Central
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Or as Sad Navigator so accurately put it: http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Gu...y-for-Ads-and-Children/m-p/35468673#U35468673

My forum has restrictions because of the nature of my business but they are taking an existing community that has behaved a certain way for over a decade and are telling them that the way they post is no longer allowed. Its almost like they want to start over again from zero with the community but are too afraid to just erase the user database.
 
Before reading the article, ask yourself this question:

"What would a guy named Dendy Jarrett look like, and what would he want to do?"

If you answered "Geeky" and "Be a giant buzzkill," well then congratulations.
 
2manband said:
Before reading the article, ask yourself this question:

"What would a guy named Dendy Jarrett look like, and what would he want to do?"

If you answered "Geeky" and "Be a giant buzzkill, but trying to be more hip by having his profile picture off center and almost out of frame," well then congratulations.
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"Well Mrs. Guitar Jam, we've done all we can. It's time to respect his final wishes and disconnect the life support machinery."

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pmc100's comment made me lol.

Hanging around kiddie forums will violate my parole ​
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Mark Wein said:
It kinda makes me angry.
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You just really have to wonder how the people in charge of whatever HC has become were ever able to reach a point where they were allowed to make any decisions about much of anything.

Clueless fucktards completely destroying what was once a great community.
 
It's been a whole 3 months since I was there, and I hardly recognized anyone there.

HC has gone to the outdoor playground at McDonald's.
 
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