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They're not nearly as clever or interesting as us, are they?

ORGANISSIMO GROUP HUG!!!!!!!!!

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It was out for a few hours last week having some upgrades. I'd imagine the same is true here.

...many of us post on both and we're no more interesting here than we are there ;) !

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Every few days means I'm in the habit of going off on AAJ on a regular basis? Don't think so. I did make a comment about them on the 19th. So what? It's my right to say so. Do you have a problem with that. It appears that you do my friend.

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I seem to recall you suggesting newbies take themselves to AAJ as a starting point:

Like I said I wasn't trying to be nasty and applaud Jim's post. I think it expresses the philosophy here of experienced listeners and players. But if you're a newbie to jazz, I just don't think is the place. I think AAJ is that place.

Somewhere not terribly interesting is 'the place' for newbies?

Anyway, I'm not thinking specifically of you but of a number of posters here who regularly feel the need to remind their fellow board members of the other boards they are disinterested by.

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Of course you have an absolute right to say this. As I have the right to point out how precious it sounds.

My problem? I just think it sad that an excellent board is blighted by this sort of self-congratulatory nonsense. As it is blighted by the way that an innocent novice to the board can be goaded by a pack of alpha males; makes an interesting contrast to the sycophancy that is unleashed whenever anyone who has written a book appears.

I'm afraid what the insiders here see as the board's strengths are, to my mind, a weakness. An insularity that can lead some members to believe the myths they've created about themselves.

But then I'm British. I never did Summer Camp bonding with the boys. I probably just don't understand the culture.

[Apologies to the many posters here for whom these criticisms are completely inappropriate. It might also be noted that I'm making them at the board in question, not at a distance with a group of AAJ cronies]

Edit: This might not quite link with your post now as you changed it between me first reading it and posting this.

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Bev,

I don't find AAJ all that terribly interesting to me but it doesn't mean it's not a good site (and if I said otherwise, then I'm wrong). I don't think we're constantly harping on how superior this board is. I just think the feeling is that AAJ is just not the place that many of us call our jazz home.

Precious? That's cute.

I don't see self congratulation going on here. People like this board more than others. What's wrong with that? As far as sycophancy, it's far from that. When a Larry Kart appears, are you going to listen to them more than someone who is brand new. I think so. That's hardly sycophantic.

And frankly I don't get your statement at all about insularity. This is quite a diverse crowd with a broad range of jazz interests from swing to the avant garde. I think it's a quite broad crowd here.

And lastly, why bring up that you're British. If one of us made some comment like that, we'd be chopped up and left by the roadside.

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