| The Real Wizard 23.09.2004 00:20 |
What was once an amazing place to chat about Queen and so many other topics has become a place filled with far too many incompetent newbies and intolerant oldtimers. Insults and wars have become far too rampant in a once lively and welcoming place. I'll lurk around now and then and perhaps occasionally post, but there's nothing really here for me anymore. Plus, recently I've gotten a job as a guitar teacher at a music studio, so I'll have much less free time for this place, anyway. I never thought I'd say these words: I love my job. However, I will definitely do my best to keep you all updated throughout my process of auditioning for WWRY Toronto next year. It's been a great ride, and at times a wonderful learning experience, but the best days of QZ are definitely behind us. All here whom I deeply respect know who you are. My email address is in my profile for anyone who wants to keep in touch. Take care, all. Bob, aka Sir GH |
| Saint Jiub 23.09.2004 01:01 |
You won't be getting many e-mails. Profiles no longer show e-mail addresses. |
| Brian_Mays_Wig 23.09.2004 03:04 |
I totally agree with you Bob. I'm gutted that QZ has become what it has. I think that this place seriously needs a moderator for the time being just to get things straightened out. Ive met some nice people on here and learned alot about my fave band, but the boards are a complete and utter shambles. Its pathetic, pathetic idiots such as HeMatiunlknlknfhycvj, Breanna, DrsDaJa, Mrs_Mercury and the like that have completely fucked it up for everyone. Good luck in your new job and for the future. B_M_W. |
| Albyboy 23.09.2004 03:25 |
Even if I wish you all the best for your new job, I really hope you will still find the time and the will to post on here... I've not been here for that long but I always thought you were one of the most relevant voices of the forum... In addiction to that, you really seem to me a nice person and I'm sure that your friends here would miss you a lot... ...Anyway I must say that sometimes topics are pissing me off as well and so I think I can understand the reasons behind your disappointment... Hope to keep on seeing you here... Really... :-) Albyboy |
| joeyjojo 23.09.2004 03:31 |
Sadly, online communities, like real ones, rise and fall. It's really tough to maintain a steady level of civil interaction sans moderation of some sort. |
| Daburcor? 23.09.2004 03:46 |
Good luck with the auditions next year!!! |
| FriedChicken 23.09.2004 06:01 |
Ill miss you bob. But then again i'm sure ill see you on MSN |
| YourValentine 23.09.2004 06:31 |
Things may change quicker than you think and maybe you'll find the board more interesting very soon :) However, good luck for the auditions - a Queenzoner playing the Canadian WWRY would sure make us proud. |
| Janet 23.09.2004 06:40 |
Take care and good luck! |
| jericho05 23.09.2004 07:49 |
I hope you still find some time to post. You seem like a decent person. Anyways good luck and I hope to see you in the musical! |
| Jjeroen 23.09.2004 07:54 |
Unfortunately you are just too right, Bob... And YV, I respect your optimism, but it is been going on too long now. I've given up hope anyway... Baer-esque crap and bashing that's all that's in here nowadays. Damn, because of that I only have about 1200 posts... Soon people like DAJA will think I'm a newbie!! ;-) |
| Jjeroen 23.09.2004 07:55 |
Oops... double p |
| YourValentine 23.09.2004 08:06 |
I have a feeling that the charles baer impersonator is quite popular on this board, some long time members reply on a regular basis - even Sir Bob:) If there were no replies, he would have given up already. It's true that I am an optimist and I am sure the board will get better. |
| Mr.Jingles 23.09.2004 08:24 |
Cya Bob I don't know if this will be the last time we'll see you, because quite a while ago we had the same problem and you decided to leave but months later you came back. So we'll see if you'll miss this place, or totally forget about it. Wish you the best, dude. |
| deleted user 23.09.2004 08:26 |
Take care!! |
| Fenderek 23.09.2004 08:26 |
Sad but True... Hope we'll talk more on MSN... |
| Sir Archie 'Tiffany' Leach 23.09.2004 12:25 |
All the best old timer! Good luck for the future. |
| Mayboy 23.09.2004 12:39 |
Take care and good luck Bob! :) |
| agneepath! 11994 23.09.2004 14:01 |
"What was once an amazing place to chat about Queen and so many other topics has become a place filled with far too many incompetent newbies and intolerant oldtimers." I partly agree - but its mainly (2 in particular) idiotic newish zoners who think just by increasing their post count they will be ragarded as senior / expert by the rest. Best of luck - and i'm sure you won't be able to resist coming back. I think richard has deleted Drs Daja acoount - which is a good start! |
| Brian_Mays_Wig 23.09.2004 14:10 |
HeM, Breanna and mrs_mercury need deleting too. |
| Mayboy 23.09.2004 15:49 |
Brian_Mays_Wig wrote: HeM, Breanna and mrs_mercury need deleting too.according to a post by Barbara in the "Queenzone.com" section Mrs_mercury and HeM have been deleted already |
| LiveAidQueen 23.09.2004 16:22 |
Goodnight |
| Mean Mistreater 23.09.2004 16:24 |
I gave up on QZ a while back too, BUT my days go by ever so slow, and I need something to do when my soap operas are boring, and on top of that my introversion prevents me from having a social life...maybe I am agoraphobic? |
| inu-liger 23.09.2004 17:34 |
Is it me, or have some of the older, better posters dissappeared too? |
| the oppositionist 23.09.2004 17:55 |
Dont go Bob. I hav a feeling barb isnt just being optimistic here- sounds like she knows something :D |
| LiveAidQueen 23.09.2004 18:20 |
Inu Yasha (a.k.a. Lum's Stormtroopers) wrote: Is it me, or have some of the older, better posters dissappeared too?A few....a few... |
| geeksandgeeks 23.09.2004 18:45 |
Bob, I agree with you, but I'll be staying here for quite a bit longer. Just in case we ever again get a nice, intelligent newbie who genuinely wants to discuss Queen, I want at least one of we Deities to be there for them. Where the hell did everyone GO, anyway? Where are fatty, Krizzy, Dan Corson, Erin, Flashman, Taylor-Mayed, all those people including the ones I forgot who used to keep this board alive? In the near future if things don't improve, I, too, will probably be fading away. So in preparation for that moment, it's been great getting to know all of you for these wonderful two years, and I hope we can keep in touch. Thank you so much, all of you. |
| LiveAidQueen 23.09.2004 18:54 |
geeksandgeeks wrote: Where the hell did everyone GO, anyway? Where are fatty, Krizzy, Dan Corson, Erin, Flashman, Taylor-Mayed, all those people including the ones I forgot who used to keep this board alive?I know what you mean. They were great...Flash is still here...Erin...Taylor-Mayed and Dan were great. At least we still have AC, Pete, Ally, YV, Hans, Niek, and anyone else I forgot (lol) They are all great people... |
| YourValentine 23.09.2004 19:23 |
Dan and Krizzy are still here. Fatty comes and goes but he is watching you. Dan keeps changing his name so you need to follow him, right now he is Puppet Dangelus. Many older members are still active posters. |
| Penis - Vagina 23.09.2004 20:15 |
Hope you change your mind Bob :) I miss Deacon Fan the most. |
| Albyboy 23.09.2004 20:30 |
<font color=#6495ED>Cold <font color=#A0522D>Earth wrote: Hope you change your mind Bob :) I miss Deacon Fan the most.Hmmm... No, I can't say the same... I liked Whirled Peas much much much more. :-) Albyboy |
| Penis - Vagina 23.09.2004 21:17 |
Well, "Whirled Peas" was a brilliant name, but that guy was kind of annoying. :) |
| SergeantPepperDG 23.09.2004 21:18 |
I would have never understood what "Cold Space" meant if I hadn't read your profile. I'm REALLY, really slow sometimes. |
| joeyjojo 23.09.2004 22:43 |
How about some of the old timers start some new threads. Sort of like stories around the campfire... |
| The Real Wizard 23.09.2004 23:58 |
Well, I have to admit, after peeking at this topic this afternoon, I was lost for words, and couldn't think of anything coherent to say at the time. From my perspective, what was expected to be a thread with a couple newbies replying with their usual asinine comments actually ended up being a reason in itself for me to wonder why I wanted to leave in the first place. It was almost like being at one's own funeral... discovering that people think something of you and care for you, and that they really wouldn't completely say so unless you were leaving them in some way. Thanks everyone for your kind words towards me. They mean quite a lot. I see that the war-hungry newbies seem to have been removed completely. The "banning policy" topic is an unfortunate thing to have happened, but I think it was completely necessary. A dozen thanks to Richard and Barbara. I suppose I can revise my original statement to say, "I have given up on QZ, as it was". So with that in mind, let's make QZ that welcoming place it once was, folks. If you all are up for it, then I am too. But if QZ continues to be the place it has been for the past few months, then I certainly will have little to no desire to hang around. P.S. Thanks for keeping Baer alive! |
| Penis - Vagina 24.09.2004 00:03 |
Sir GH (ah yeah) wrote: P.S. Thanks for keeping Baer alive!Nevermind what I said... please leave! j/k ;) |
| Penis - Vagina 24.09.2004 00:05 |
SergeantPepperDG wrote: I would have never understood what "Cold Space" meant if I hadn't read your profile. I'm REALLY, really slow sometimes.Haha, don't you hate it when you get something wrong at a time like this? It's Cold EARTH dear :-P I think Whirled Peas might be reappearing soon....... BTW, I keep forgetting that Cher pic is in there. It makes no sense. I was seeing how big I could have a photo while it still being a small enough filesize, and her lovely black hair helped to keep the size smaller, since black takes fewer bits or something. I can't explain why I had that pic on hand to begin with though :-P |
| MayFan 24.09.2004 00:19 |
Well..I didn't read this whole thread (too tired =P) but I'd like to say that, still being a newbie of sorts, I enjoy talking Queen and music in general here. I enjoy posting with ppl here and I hope no one ever feels the need to leave. The political threads were definitely getting to be too much. I say we just stop posting on all the stupid stuff and I think they will just go away. |
| Brimon 24.09.2004 05:34 |
This may sound silly, but reading some of the replies to Bobs leaving message, I started getting a bit choked up. Then I read Bob saying hes going to stay at QZ, and well, its all getting too emotional for me. So Im going to pop on Eye of the Tiger by Survivor to cheer myself up. Oh and good luck with your new job. Its the eye of the tiger Its the thrill of the fight Rising up de de de de de de de de |
| iGSM 24.09.2004 07:50 |
Have the Rolling Stones killed. |
| ^wicked^ 24.09.2004 08:20 |
He's had it in for me ever since I accidently ran over his dog. Actually, replace 'accidently' with 'repeatedly', and replace 'dog' with 'son'. And that is all I have to say about that. |
| wstüssyb 24.09.2004 11:32 |
Where the hell did everyone GO, anyway? Where are fatty, Krizzy, Dan Corson, Erin, Flashman, Taylor-Mayed, all those people including the ones I forgot who used to keep this board alive? %%$#@$&&#@ fucking fine, dont mention me ^^ |
| Fenderek 24.09.2004 11:36 |
Well- where the hell are you...? :) |
| Goo 24.09.2004 14:47 |
Glad you've decided not to leave, GH. IMO, you're probably one of the top queenzoners. Good luck with your new job, and with the audition, I'll be sure to go see it! |
| The Real Wizard 24.09.2004 15:11 |
I didn't say I was planning on staying indefinitely. I think it's fair to say that I'll come back for good if/when I see some positive change here over the next little while. This place has meant a lot to me over the past couple years, and it has been awful to see it in the state it was in up to yesterday. I'd like to see QZ become a real forum again, and I think I can see that happening... an overall welcoming and productive place. Time will tell. In the meantime, I use MSN, so my email address is bobw_22@hotmail.com for anyone who wants to keep in touch. I hope you're one of them, Goo, and Music Man, too. *edit* I really shouldn't mention any more names, as surely I will leave someone out if I attempt a list! |
| geeksandgeeks 24.09.2004 19:10 |
wstüssyb wrote: Where the hell did everyone GO, anyway? Where are fatty, Krizzy, Dan Corson, Erin, Flashman, Taylor-Mayed, all those people including the ones I forgot who used to keep this board alive? %%$#@$&&#@ fucking fine, dont mention me ^^Oh feh, you know I love you :) Gee whiz, Bob, you're getting ME all choked up now...and I was feeling a bit low, too. Thanks. As far as this about what you expected/didn't expect...who the fuck do you think you're trying to kid, pal? ;) You think we don't care about you? I, of course, am an icy, cold-hearted bitch, and I know that SOMEONE is going to jump on and tell me I'm getting too involved in this virtual world (hint: DON'T DO IT, IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT IT), but I consider you folks my friends. Well, not all of you, but I'm sure you can guess who I'm excluding. And by the way, Binomial Whatsyourface - I was laughing for about five minutes after reading your sig. |
| The Real Wizard 24.09.2004 19:34 |
geeksandgeeks wrote: Gee whiz, Bob, you're getting ME all choked up now...and I was feeling a bit low, too. Thanks. As far as this about what you expected/didn't expect...who the fuck do you think you're trying to kid, pal? ;) You think we don't care about you? I, of course, am an icy, cold-hearted bitch, and I know that SOMEONE is going to jump on and tell me I'm getting too involved in this virtual world (hint: DON'T DO IT, IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT IT), but I consider you folks my friends. Well, not all of you, but I'm sure you can guess who I'm excluding.After a post like this, how could I ever leave now? :) "Cold-hearted bitch" never was part of my perceptions of you, but now you've got me thinking! Really, in all seriousness, I intended for that to be my last post for a very long time, and to just check back the next day to see a couple of worthless filler posts. I was just so disappointed with this place at the time that the thought of something so positive didn't even cross my mind. You guys are the best. Except me back full tilt within a couple weeks. I do need to get used to the new job and work hard on my jazz harmony class. Looking forward to some more great times here. |
| geeksandgeeks 24.09.2004 20:16 |
Sir GH<br><font size=1>ah yeah</font> wrote:"Icy Cold-Hearted Bitch" is my friends' nickname for me :)geeksandgeeks wrote: Gee whiz, Bob, you're getting ME all choked up now...and I was feeling a bit low, too. Thanks. As far as this about what you expected/didn't expect...who the fuck do you think you're trying to kid, pal? ;) You think we don't care about you? I, of course, am an icy, cold-hearted bitch, and I know that SOMEONE is going to jump on and tell me I'm getting too involved in this virtual world (hint: DON'T DO IT, IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT IT), but I consider you folks my friends. Well, not all of you, but I'm sure you can guess who I'm excluding.After a post like this, how could I ever leave now? :) "Cold-hearted bitch" never was part of my perceptions of you, but now you've got me thinking! Really, in all seriousness, I intended for that to be my last post for a very long time, and to just check back the next day to see a couple of worthless filler posts. I was just so disappointed with this place at the time that the thought of something so positive didn't even cross my mind. You guys are the best. Except me back full tilt within a couple weeks. I do need to get used to the new job and work hard on my jazz harmony class. Looking forward to some more great times here. Well damn, now I fell special. And God, how can I leave now? It might work for two or three days, and then I'd give into the temptation. Oldbies, are you reading this? COME BACK. If you don't come back, Mandy, who is experienced with torture, might decide to take you on a NATURE HIKE, where we identify EVERY SINGLE TREE IN KENTUCKY. GOT IT? Good. *smiles sweetly* |
| Daburcor? 24.09.2004 21:27 |
wstüssyb wrote: Where the hell did everyone GO, anyway? Where are fatty, Krizzy, Dan Corson, Erin, Flashman, Taylor-Mayed, all those people including the ones I forgot who used to keep this board alive? %%$#@$&&#@ fucking fine, dont mention me ^^I'm still here! <----- Dan Corson |