ghost of miles Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 I can't seem to log into AAJ today--it's rejecting my password. Anybody else running into this problem? I seem to recall a recent thread about this, but even a Google search using "AAJ" didn't turn it up for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papsrus Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 They've been banned by the world wide web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Works for me. I'm using Firefox 3 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeline Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 (edited) They've been banned by the world wide web. (Good one, paps! ) Edited November 1, 2008 by seeline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValerieB Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 i had trouble and when i finally got in, i couldn't get new posts. i signed in again and it seems ok now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I stopped trying a couple years back when I was banned for the 2nd time. Life has been fine since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I stopped trying a couple years back when I was banned for the 2nd time. Life has been fine since then. Same here, except that I stopped trying when I was banned for the first time several years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 What on earth did you guys have to do to get banned? . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 (edited) What on earth did you guys have to do to get banned? . I got a cryptic message from Ricci when I was banned years ago and when I asked him to explain, I never heard back from him. Doesn't matter, I lost any interest I may have had in AAJ a long time ago. Edited November 2, 2008 by J.A.W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 What on earth did you guys have to do to get banned? . I said something negative about one of Ricci's paid clients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I avoid the boards like the plague but have been able to get some things across writing reviews there. And there are some very good people on staff there, believe it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 They are useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeline Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 (edited) I avoid the boards like the plague but have been able to get some things across writing reviews there. And there are some very good people on staff there, believe it or not. Maybe so, but the board has gone to hell. Little to no moderator intervention for the most part (even when very much needed), then a lowering of the boom on people who disagree with Mike Ricci and/or some of the current denizens of the music theory and musician to musician sections of the board = disaster. And banning. Lots of banning. Now there's next to no discussion. It's a shame - but now that some time has elapsed since I was banned, I can see that there's little left to salvage. Edited November 2, 2008 by seeline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Maybe so, but the board has gone to hell. Little to no moderator intervention for the most part (even when very much needed), then a lowering of the boom on people who disagree with Mike Ricci and/or some of the current denizens of the music theory and musician to musician sections of the board = disaster. The only part of the board I go to and those two forums have been pretty dead for months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeline Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 (edited) Which is probably because the same 6-7 people are responsible for more than 90% of the posts in those forums. There's a lot of closed-mindedness, which makes it almost impossible to have a discussion with them. Edited November 2, 2008 by seeline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I rarely post anything! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I was banned too. Came back a month later just because I could and post a little because. . . I haven't yet really figured that out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 (edited) I check out the 'British Jazz Reissues' thread (page 22,384) but other than that only rarely visit. Edited November 2, 2008 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 I left years ago, don't miss and never going back as long as Mike Ricci is running the place. The guy's a jerk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 I'd sooner go back to that "Day in Harlem" board. At least the rules there were silly interesting rather than silly stupid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 I'd sooner go back to that "Day in Harlem" board. At least the rules there were silly interesting rather than silly stupid... Does that board still exist? I couldn't find it. I guess it never survived the departure of all former BNBB members when this board started... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Barton Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 I haven't even visited the site for ages. Just out of curiosity I decided to check it out. I ran into similar sign-in problems for the forums so didn't bother going any further. A waste of time. They pretty much bored me to tears the last time I was there. The only really cool posters have long since migrated over here to the Big O. Clifford has a point in terms of some of the writers. It's too bad that the software that they use seems to mangle everything. A couple of the CD reviews that I tried to read were practically incomprehensible because of all the $^&*(@ gobbledegook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeline Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 (edited) For the reviews (etc.) everything - including line breaks - has to be hand-coded. It's not for the faint of heart. Edited November 4, 2008 by seeline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Barton Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 For the reviews (etc.) everything - including line breaks - has to be hand-coded. It's not for the faint of heart. Good point. That's one of the reasons I haven't contributed anything for ages either! It hadn't occurred to me that all the miscellaneous characters were probably generated by incomplete or incorrect HTML coding on the part of the contributor. Duh... An interesting sidebar though: recently I made a very good contact who got in touch with me because of my contributor profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel A Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 I'd sooner go back to that "Day in Harlem" board. At least the rules there were silly interesting rather than silly stupid... Does that board still exist? I couldn't find it. I guess it never survived the departure of all former BNBB members when this board started... The Harlem site is still there, but the board was closed a couple of years ago, I think. For the last years there was absolutely no action at all - much like how it was before the closing of the BNBB. I believe everybody came and went within one single week in the spring of 2003... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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