QueenZone discussion #1603555

Richard Orchard wrote: hi All, Just giving people a heads-up - i will be shutting down queenzone on 1 November. A few reasons: 1. Don't have the time to maintain the site - can't be bothered with sorting out all the spammers, fixing things. 2. Cost - don't really want to spend any more money on the site (only about $50 per month, but all adds up) 3. Don't really have much passion for what remains of Queen anymore. 4. There are lots of avenues for conversation/downloading stuff/ etc now. So - for those few people that still viisit,you can arrange an alternative venue. I think the site started in about 1995 - so it has been going a while. i may put up the raw code/data somewhere if anyone ever wants to play with it. The discography by John S Stuart was good i thought. Richard

philip storey wrote: Please don't let all of this Forum disappear hand it over to somebody else maybe,I know it has it's fault's but it's head and shoulders above the likes of the Official Queen Fan Club's site ,where there is no room for banter and just a load of deluded fan's who part with £25 for two poor quality magazine's a year.

matt z wrote:

philip storey wrote: Please don't let all of this Forum disappear hand it over to somebody else maybe,I know it has it's fault's but it's head and shoulders above the likes of the Official Queen Fan Club's site ,where there is no room for banter and just a load of deluded fan's who part with £25 for two poor quality magazine's a year.

I've gotta say. This is absolute truth. QOL is a disaster whose moderation only permits sycophantic "truths" and adulation. Not that they're undeserved, Only there's no real discourse there. I don't even bother

CHEVYMAN wrote: The administrator ban me from there and I haven’t even posted hardly any there lol. I don’t like the regulations on certain subjects anyway it’s apart of who Freddie was and what some of his songs were truly about.I used to belong to a fb group and had a argument with one lady and it blew up here bigger than Dallas so the whole bunch told the administrator I was a troll so silly. I been a member on Queen chats for a while but since they are gonna have to move there they ban me so crazy lol I don’t even post much over there. I wasn’t even really interested to many restrictions I feel you.

CHEVYMAN wrote: Moorhead makes no sense give him some loving

Raf wrote: Hey Richard, First of all, thanks for all your hard work over all these years. I've learned a lot on this forum and made some good friends here :) As many people seem interested in saving the conversations, wouldn't it be feasible to post a raw dump of the database on Github? It's free and the people who would know what to do with it are probably comfortable with that site. I've made a crawler to save every post and export it in json, but I'm afraid of using it and bringing the server down with so many requests per minute over the course of a few days. :x

CHEVYMAN wrote: I love to talk about the songs. I just love music.

Richard Orchard wrote: 1. I believe in free speech. 2. People should be able to "ignore" things they don't like. 3. The time when I did open it up to more moderators - I was bombarded with people complaining about fairness of the moderation.

Richard Orchard wrote: The Database is about 3GB in size. First post in the DB is listed as 5 July 2003. There are 1,164,802 individual posts (replies + topic starters). I will put the code and backup of the DB on github - so, if some people are interested they can play around with it. Code is a bit embarrassing.... Wrote it a long time ago, finding my way as i went along.... I will try and archive/hardcopy the forum topics. i have had some success with a system to do that sort of thing. Will see how that goes - no promises though.

Negative Creep wrote: It will be very sad to see the forums go. I haven't bothered with the new forum that was set up - because I think it stank that 2 people in particular deliberately set out to argue constantly with someone they could have very easily not interacted with, with the clear intention of making the forum horrendous and to launch their own. People like that can go fuck themselves frankly.

The Real Wizard wrote:

Richard Orchard wrote: And the new forum seems to be going splendidly nonetheless, with nearly a thousand members. But not a single one of us who migrated from the original hotel to the new one aren't ungrateful for what it accomplished at its peak.

What is the "new forum"?

The Real Wizard wrote:

Richard Orchard wrote: But now the world is a very different place. Queen are one of the biggest names in the biz once again, and much of the dialogue has moved to social media. And the new forum seems to be going splendidly nonetheless, with nearly a thousand members. But not a single one of us who migrated from the original hotel to the new one aren't ungrateful for what it accomplished at its peak.

What is the "new forum"?
Sorry dbl post

AlbaNo1 wrote:

Negative Creep wrote: It will be very sad to see the forums go. I haven't bothered with the new forum that was set up - because I think it stank that 2 people in particular deliberately set out to argue constantly with someone they could have very easily not interacted with, with the clear intention of making the forum horrendous and to launch their own. People like that can go fuck themselves frankly.

In a nutshell

PrimeJiveUSA wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote: And the new forum seems to be going splendidly nonetheless, with nearly a thousand members. But not a single one of us who migrated from the original hotel to the new one aren't ungrateful for what it accomplished at its peak.

What is the "new forum"?

The Real Wizard wrote:

AlbaNo1 wrote:

Negative Creep wrote: It will be very sad to see the forums go. I haven't bothered with the new forum that was set up - because I think it stank that 2 people in particular deliberately set out to argue constantly with someone they could have very easily not interacted with, with the clear intention of making the forum horrendous and to launch their own. People like that can go fuck themselves frankly.

In a nutshell

How ironic yet unsurprising - a forum is being shut down largely due to trolling, and you guys are trolling the eulogy thread with a conspiracy theory and siding with other trolls. I'd expect nothing less from you two. You could've demonstrated a shed of grace like most others who are putting the negativity aside and reminiscing about the good times... but why start now? Good riddance.

AlbaNo1 wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote:

AlbaNo1 wrote:

Negative Creep wrote: It will be very sad to see the forums go. I haven't bothered with the new forum that was set up - because I think it stank that 2 people in particular deliberately set out to argue constantly with someone they could have very easily not interacted with, with the clear intention of making the forum horrendous and to launch their own. People like that can go fuck themselves frankly.

In a nutshell

How ironic yet unsurprising - a forum is being shut down largely due to trolling, and you guys are trolling the eulogy thread with a conspiracy theory and siding with other trolls. I'd expect nothing less from you two. You could've demonstrated a shed of grace like most others who are putting the negativity aside and reminiscing about the good times... but why start now? Good riddance.

Actually trolling didn’t feature in the 4 stated reasons for closing it. And good riddance to you . For my own amusement I will contemplate the ratio of your post count to sexual experiences . Bore off.

The Real Wizard wrote:

AlbaNo1 wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote:

AlbaNo1 wrote:

Negative Creep wrote: It will be very sad to see the forums go. I haven't bothered with the new forum that was set up - because I think it stank that 2 people in particular deliberately set out to argue constantly with someone they could have very easily not interacted with, with the clear intention of making the forum horrendous and to launch their own. People like that can go fuck themselves frankly.

In a nutshell

How ironic yet unsurprising - a forum is being shut down largely due to trolling, and you guys are trolling the eulogy thread with a conspiracy theory and siding with other trolls. I'd expect nothing less from you two. You could've demonstrated a shed of grace like most others who are putting the negativity aside and reminiscing about the good times... but why start now? Good riddance.

Actually trolling didn’t feature in the 4 stated reasons for closing it. And good riddance to you . For my own amusement I will contemplate the ratio of your post count to sexual experiences . Bore off.

If you think Queenzone wouldn't be closing down if the trolls hadn't forced 95% of its members to migrate elsewhere, you're out of your mind. It's obvious to plenty of others who have posted in six pages of this thread now. I averaged three posts per day, which is about five minutes of my time. And yet here you are admittedly spending your spare time thinking about someone else's sex life. I'm sure it feels great to project your insecurities onto others. This exchange is a fitting epitaph to this place. Once again - good riddance.

sienna

The Real Wizard wrote:

PrimeJiveUSA wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote: And the new forum seems to be going splendidly nonetheless, with nearly a thousand members. But not a single one of us who migrated from the original hotel to the new one aren't ungrateful for what it accomplished at its peak.

What is the "new forum"?

See my signature.

The Real Wizard wrote:

AlbaNo1 wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote:

AlbaNo1 wrote:

Negative Creep wrote: It will be very sad to see the forums go. I haven't bothered with the new forum that was set up - because I think it stank that 2 people in particular deliberately set out to argue constantly with someone they could have very easily not interacted with, with the clear intention of making the forum horrendous and to launch their own. People like that can go fuck themselves frankly.

In a nutshell

How ironic yet unsurprising - a forum is being shut down largely due to trolling, and you guys are trolling the eulogy thread with a conspiracy theory and siding with other trolls. I'd expect nothing less from you two. You could've demonstrated a shed of grace like most others who are putting the negativity aside and reminiscing about the good times... but why start now? Good riddance.

Actually trolling didn’t feature in the 4 stated reasons for closing it. And good riddance to you . For my own amusement I will contemplate the ratio of your post count to sexual experiences . Bore off.

If you think Queenzone wouldn't be closing down if the trolls hadn't forced 95% of its members to migrate elsewhere, you're out of your mind. It's obvious to plenty of others who have posted in six pages of this thread now. I averaged three posts per day, which is about five minutes of my time. And yet here you are admittedly spending your spare time thinking about someone else's sex life. I'm sure it feels great to project your insecurities onto others. This exchange is a fitting epitaph to this place. Once again - good riddance.

CHEVYMAN wrote: Brenski, you need to stop you are taking the Gay community’s freedom of speech away by not allowing them to talk about subjects related to their sexual orientation. Your forum will not grow that way. Do you know how many gays bisexuals and all of the above make up Queens followers. That was Freddie’s vision. It was for all the unwanted oppressed misfits his champions of the world and you are destroying their right to freedom of liberation. Don’t expect them to follow your site.Our opinions and ideas and feelings matter too!!!!!!!The heterosexual community is in trouble because they don’t have the capacity to show unconditional love and acceptance.Some of us have been called perverts, sexual deviants, child molesters, we are judged for the way we view our bodies as works of art. We are judged for the way we love and who we love. We have been called the f word. We are different we all recognized this from early ages we sure as hell hide it because we knew we would surely be judged and this is proof again we are being shunned even in the year 2020.I rest my case you have done something very wrong using the excuse of conflict as a excuse to not give us that freedom to talk. Just tell them how you really feel how disgusted the sight of them make you feel.

AlbaNo1 wrote:

Negative Creep wrote: It will be very sad to see the forums go. I haven't bothered with the new forum that was set up - because I think it stank that 2 people in particular deliberately set out to argue constantly with someone they could have very easily not interacted with, with the clear intention of making the forum horrendous and to launch their own. People like that can go fuck themselves frankly.

In a nutshell

AlbaNo1 wrote:Not really because the same people , or at least one of them . totally changed their behaviour on the new site, whilst continuing to come back and argue here. To quote the Queenzone site administrator. 1. I believe in free speech. 2. People should be able to "ignore" things they don't like.

CHEVYMAN wrote: Brenski, was one of the biggest trolls here why don’t you ask him how many of his followers are gonna use his site are from the Gay community and no till I was fucked with I wasn’t hateful to anyone. Brenski was a super troll here it’s a bad move for the people there. I had an account there but when I seen he ban such topics important to my passion of who I am I hardly ever posted. Only reason I was ban. I got into a confrontation here with a bigoted troll Debbie mason a Thor doesn’t even want his name on their thread over there. So yeah you guys need to find a way to grab up memories of those threads.You notice Brenski doesn’t talk about those.What speaking of isn’t rubbish it is caring and compassion for a shunned community and their right to speak. If that subject were included wouldn’t that create more followers of course it would but they want to create a community of bigots. Queen sung to all people and the misfits then and they do now

CHEVYMAN wrote: Moonie,I’m talking respectful I’m just stating that it isn’t right for certain groups of people not to talk about subjects that are important to them as long as there are moderators their it shouldn’t be a problem. You are denying someone’s freedom of speech and yes bigotry does exist today and is going strong the ladies I had confrontation with were all heterosexual women judging me for my choices in pictures of my own body and art . When they clearly viewed Gay men having sex in art form full engagement. People can’t pic and choose what they think is appropriate for them and then judge me for showing my breast.breast are art. The porn they viewed with excitement was also art there’s no difference so before you judge please get the whole picture. Yes these are the ladies coming to your forum they don’t teach knitting classes

CHEVYMAN wrote: So people aren’t allowed to talk about subjects related to their orientation it’s their freedom of speech all other things are allowed that’s my point it’s bigotry. The human body is art and my point was you guys are letting people within your forum that discuss these topics and as you call it are like minded people brenski just doesn’t know it yet.Thanks for your honest and time!!!!!!!! If you look back it looks like you are the rude one and your like minded closed minded people. Your species is doomed because it’s in capability to accept and to love are all you lurkers seeing this no acceptance this is the new forum .bigotry and no acceptance, compassion or love. Good company will be there thread name and I bet there will be a lot of private activity moderators won’t see because I was in a private fb group with this ladies and some of the stuff embarrassed me.Oh these people saying goodbye like they are leaving most of them are already over to the other forum and have been for some time.

Penetration_Guru wrote: This thread has turned out to be the entire forum in microcosm. Starts of respectful and interesting, ends up in facile mudslinging. Of that 3Gb, 75% will need pruning out to form an archive worthwhile of the QueenZone name at its peak.

CHEVYMAN wrote: Then someone step up and do it your not addressing insults towards me by men and I’m a woman so please someone step up !!!!!!!!!