Rude

@Boo - I was aiming for humour, not rudeness.

Perhaps it's time for me to stop making non-guitar-related comments.  It's too easy to misconstrue meaning in on-line comms when you get into "other" topics.

I was aiming for humour, not rudeness.

Perhaps it's time for me to stop making non-guitar-related comments.  It's too easy to misconstrue meaning in on-line comms when you get into "other" topics.

@tv101 Oh for goodness sake, don’t be daft, I’m pretty much uninsultable. 🤣 I’m from Lancashire, I can take the crack (this means having a laugh, even when the joke is on me). 🤣

I wanted to experiment by not using emojis and to highlight how important they are in the written word. Some might think emojis are a bit childish but I think they are essential in communicating the emotional intent of the words you have just written. In face to face conversation and even audio communication, humans can usually determine the intended emotional attachment to the words being spoken. With the written work, there is a lot more left open to interpretation by the reader. 

Now, normally I would have said “Rude 🤣👍” or something similar. 

But, if I wrote just “Rude”, it leaves it wide open to interpretation, with the risk of causing offence or any other emotion, it’s all down to the reader. When designing a UX (User Interface) on a piece of software, we want it to be as easy and intuitive as possible for the end user. I think it’s the same for designing and construction a sentence or paragraph etc. 

Back in times of old, when people wrote letters on that stuff called paper, emojis were not a thing but if we scribbled faces and other doodles on the page, you were doing it wrong. It was a pretty rigid and strict format that we were taught in school and that was how we would do it for life. But along came computers and blew all of that out of the water. Email is still a little strict, it still has a format but social media etc don’t, it’s a free for all. That’s why emojis were invented because someone recognised that different people could read the same bit of text and interpret the emotional intention differently and therefore could totally miss the point of the communication. 

I think emojis are essential, I see them as punctuation these days. That’s why social media is insane because everyone can be connected to everyone in the same conversation and as soon as one person gets offended, it spirals into chaos. 

Forms of communication have changed a lot over human history and we must adapt to that along side it. 

So, I encourage everyone to use emojis. **FIND YOUR EMOJI KEYBOARD** 🤣😁😜😣😱😯😭🥰🥳😡🤬🤯🤢🤮

@tv101 and everyone, don’t ever stop larking about and having the crack (again, this means having a laugh), it’s what binds us all together. The world needs laughter, especially in times like these. 😁😂🤣👍

@Boo

Background to my comment.

For 5 years, I was the (originally) 25% owner, then (ultimately) 50% owner of the UK's largest guitar-related online forum.  We built it from scratch (literally nothing), and it grew into around 15k signed-up members and ~2m hits/mth at the time I left.

I walked away 2.5yrs ago because of the hassle caused by "people".  It's difficult to avoid "people" when you're running an internet forum, particularly one as busy as that one is. 

Online is not a natural human communication medium.  We rely hugely on body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, context, knowing each other (etc), in our communication.  Relying on the typed/read word, particularly when that's often a hastily typed word on a phone screen, or a word typed at the end of a busy day (etc), allows for a LOT of misinterpretation, misunderstanding, and - sadly - often a lot of quite forceful arguments.  Unhelpfully, it's a lot easier to have a forceful argument online and argumentative keyboards say a lot more than a person would ever say face to face.

As you say, the emojis are a critical part of online comms because they can at least indicate intended meaning and substitute (poorly) for the absence of the associated body language, facial expressions, et al.

I saw your comment ("Rude") and thought, "yes, it was".  Not intentionally rude, but it could be read and understood as such.  I'd not included any emojis to add the context, so you *could* have interpreted it as a serious comment.

I do not want this forum, this community, to go the way of the one that I built, and left.  This is more specialised, more focused and WAY smaller, plus it's a lot more interactive (livestreams) and I think it will always have the spirit-of-Bailey running through it, and keeping it true to his values.

Hence me saying that perhaps I should just stick to on-topic comments.

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@tv101 Yeah I understand completely, online disinhibition is real alright and it does cause endless trouble. In this forum, I think we have grasped the fundamentals of each of our personalities and I think we all have quite a good sense of humour. Having said that, I hear what you say about your experience with your other forum and how we shouldn’t let this one become the same. As much as we can lark about, someone at some point could get offended and kick off, causing a *hitstorm. Maybe we should reign it in a bit. We know our intentions are good but some people just want the world to burn. Not me. 🙂

This is The Best Song by Bob Dylan that I've heard........ 

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Hi guys ....the comments I posted and insulting myself (and @boo) as we are upt’ north. 

ive been called alsorts over the years and the crack on a forum is part of the fun..so insult away.

so @tv101 @boo @mattbeels and any others on here just keep it going and I can say if I say Rude or cheek or others it’s just an attempt at a humorous retort..

oh and if I was to insult someone they would know about it 🤣🤣🤣..loving being back on here and thanks for the concern comments

oh and @russ great Dylan song 👍🏻

oh and @russ great Dylan song

Cheers @deej. 😁👍 

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it sounds like the type of job that can comfortably support a guitar building habit.

It can @mattbeels but it interferes with your available time...hence the potential in rethinking what I want to do going forward...

Hi guys ....the comments I posted and insulting myself (and @boo) as we are upt’ north. 

ive been called alsorts over the years and the crack on a forum is part of the fun..so insult away.

so @tv101 @boo @mattbeels and any others on here just keep it going and I can say if I say Rude or cheek or others it’s just an attempt at a humorous retort..

oh and if I was to insult someone they would know about it 🤣🤣🤣..loving being back on here and thanks for the concern comments

@deej Exactly this ☝️🙄☝️ I totally agree. We know how to have the crack, call us what you want, it’s all good fun. 😂

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but it interferes with your available time...hence the potential in rethinking

@deej

That’s a good point, definitely time for a rethink! 👍💥🍕🎸🎸🎸😎🤦‍♂️🕶♓️👾

(I feel so emoji right now...)

This is The Best Song by Jimi Hendrix that I've heard......... classic. 

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Great track @russ, I always thought that intro was one of the heaviest things ever!

Although I dig Hendrix I’m not a big fan of his or psychedelic music in general. However this song rocks! So does Mitch Mitchell, what a groovy drummer...

Jimi!!!!!!!! Voodoo Child!!!! 

This is The Best Song by The Scorpions that I've heard....... this is my favourite lineup too. 

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@russ

Those were good years for Scorpions, and that’s a crazy track! I have a few favorites from that era but this time I‘ll go with the obvious one as it’s an absolute ripper! This is proto shred folks!

Those were good years for Scorpions, and that’s a crazy track! I have a few favorites from that era but this time I‘ll go with the obvious one as it’s an absolute ripper! This is proto shred folks!

Excellent choice @mattbeels. 👍😁 

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Both great songs guys ...I’m going for the obvious