Is Tubenet busted?

[the elephant]

Oh, I thought you were talking about TN, but I understand now.

[sweaty]

I never even give TubeNet a second thought. I have no reason to since the current administration and mods have banned me.

I was also banned. I consider it a badge of honor given their intense fear of independent and rational thought. A fraudster's biggest fear is to be exposed. The leaders of that forum, when their moral and intellectual weakness were revealed, panicked, went into "fight or flight" mode, and banned anyone who could think for themselves and express their thoughts coherently.

[russiantuba]

I just clicked on the ITEA forums link. Clearly, their main concern is not music or tubas/euphoniums. They discredit themselves.

I think anyone could start a forum topic of relevant interest to them, and form local communities (like I am in the pro musicians one which might be members only. Someone could probably go and form a T.U.B.A. alumni ones Note—I am not even suggesting to go over there, but wanted to mention it being late to the party). I think the Seattle tuba community one was added to show who was playing in the area for example.

I think with several top players and teachers coming here to advertise openings and to sell horns, our site is well enough established.

[the elephant]

Why? Does it say something? I finally got logged back in and all it says is that the board is temporarily down and to try again in a few minutes.

I see the same thing here, but I'm permanently banned too.

[sweaty]

ITEA gave themselves a specific name, but are interested in a different subject. If a business tried to sell you something different from what it was labeled, would you do business with them? Not me. I give my time, money, and effort to those with integrity.

[arpthark]

Looks like the site is back up.

[humBell]

Just checked too... with no new posts since may?

[sdloveless]

Well, I did have a TubeNet account. Yesterday, even though the site was down, I could still sign in. Just couldn't see anything. Then I was signed out and couldn't sign in. Now I seem to no longer have an account. Maybe they were purging inactive accounts? I certainly hadn't posted there in years. Mostly I'd just check the for sale listings every once in a great while.

Not a big deal for me. Nothing of real value was lost.

[Eric Murphy]

I just tried to log in with my account. It says my account doesn't exist. It also says there are 0 registered users online at the bottom of the page. Maybe they got rid of all accounts?

[windshieldbug]

Just went on fine!

[UncleBeer]

Nothing of real value was lost.

The big loss was when seasoned professionals left that site, deleting posts containing decades of valuable experience & expertise. Zero regrets.

[Eric Murphy]

I tried to recover my account, but that isn't working. I also tried to make a new account, but it just keeps refreshing the "I agree to these terms" page when I click "I agree to these terms" button. Fine. I'm much happier on tubaforum anyway!

[the elephant]

Everything is up and running, but nothing works.

???

I tried posting or replying in seveal forums and all were stopped with the invalid form message.

Also, take a look at the birthdays, today. LOTS and LOTS of 46-year-olds on TN, baby. It's like the Class of 1997 signed up en masse, all with very similar names.

agrohimvlc (46), agrohimhun (46), agrohimujv (46), agrohimcoh (46), agrohimnbb (46), agrohimtjw (46), agrohimttb (46), agrohimvuf (46), agrohimkmy (46), agrohimvqn (46), agrohimwrd (46), agrohimdqe (46), agrohimnwo (46), agrohimqbg (46), agrohimnnc (46), agrohimnke (46), agrohimrvc (46), agrohimcis (46), agrohimdbb (46), agrohimrpr (46), agrohimawz (46), agrohimmcg (46), agrohimuju (46), agrohimsvf (46), agrohimass (46), agrohimxzg (46), agrohimebw (46), agrohimojs (46), agrohimzee (46)

Perhaps this bot invasion is what they are trying to clean up (or not)? quick search shows that Agrohim is one of the largest manufacturers of pesticides in Russia.

WTF?

That place is just plain weird.

[humBell]

Not everything is busted.

It marked a thread read (er... blue) after i viewed it.

But i tried and failed to post something, so yeah.

Pretty static.

[MiBrassFS]

I left that place some time before all the weird went down. I mostly left because I really didn’t get the dynamic and, being quite ill for a good portion of my involvement, it was mostly from own lack of perception and perspective. What I do get now is that some really nice, even handed and helpful folks were clearly not treated very well. I don’t read any of them as “anti-anybody” either.

I don’t have a login and have spent zero time looking at their stuff. Seems like a resource lost and a waste of time visiting there now. I’m not interested in giving them any validation.

[tadawson]

Seems fine and responsive 5 mins ago . . .

[the elephant]

Seems fine and responsive 5 mins ago . . .

Try to make a new post or to comment in an existing thread…

[donn]

Whether it's worth participating in today, or not, the site still has a lot of accumulated information from people who aren't here, or even alive, and at a casual look it isn't archived on web.archive.org (not the posts.) It would be a shame to see it go off to the bit recyclers.

[Three Valves]

PHEW it’s such a relief that there’s NO political agendas ever being expressed here! /sarcasm

A huge shout out to the moderators who take the time regular remove political posts.

PM Me as soon as someone here calls your employer and demands you be fired for what you said, or worse, for what they mischaracterization what you said.

Your false equivalence is duly noted.

[Mark]

In reference to the original post: Who cares if it's busted or not? In my opinion, this board has become what TubeNet of old was and in my opinion is much better. Sure, we no longer have Klaus and a few others who have been claimed by time, but we still have a wealth of knowledge here. And with special thanks to our admins and moderators, we will get better as time passes. And that's all I have to say about that.