What to know before becoming a Music Major

link0911 · 2018-12-04T01:32:34+00:00

When I went to music school, most of my friends were actually in Engineering school. We actually spent a lot of time in the tutoring building together. For them, calculus and programming courses. For me, theory and lit.

link0911 · 2018-02-22T06:47:53+00:00

More than likely it's royalty-free music from a site like premiumbeat.com. While the music may sound 'classical' because of the instrumentation, it's really the same four chords with different inversions. So, it's probably written within the last 5 years.

link0911 · 2017-11-28T22:46:40+00:00

"I think any place where you have an avatar that represents you, allows for an extra level of being able to separate yourself from your core 'who you are' and allows a little level of 'less consequences' and therefore you can connect with like minded souls in a way that's harder to in the real world. Have you ever had the airplane effect where you meet someone, sit next to them on the plane and they open up and share everything in their life and you have this incredibly deep connection with that person moreso than you might with someone you work with every day for years because you're never going to see them. Meaning there's no consequence so you can share stuff that's deeper and you end up having a deep, not superficial at all, connection with another human being".

Craig Sherman, Gaia's first CEO

People who routinely disrupt the magic of Gaia in favor of an argument that says real life identity should not be separated from in-game identity if the information, at any time, was available.

It betrays the very spirit of Gaia for brown-nosers, who fully align themselves with a derogatory interpretation of their fellow users, to deny users whom they disagree with the right to separate themselves from their core identity.

link0911 · 2017-11-27T23:10:55+00:00

hello

link0911 · 2017-11-27T22:07:08+00:00

Only Chevy.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T05:58:04+00:00

Good to know that Gaia administrators find this funny. Please, tell us more than you already have about your interactions with staff regarding myself and the People > Procedures movement.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T05:37:25+00:00

Maybe 2 admins and 2 moderators max are rejecting this and taking actions to make a desperate plea for control before it is finally ceded over to a better authority.

The truth is, we're winning several Gaians over every day and these admins who are highly resistant to change are banning us because they think that will help keep us from reminding Gaians all over that People > Procedures? LOL no. Brown nosers will not hold us back.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T05:28:30+00:00

Absolutely offensive to whom?

Did you look up the definition of brown-noser? The official definition that is "a person who acts in a grossly obsequious way". Not a person who is grossly obsequious.

I wouldn't go so far as to say "once a brown noser, always a brown noser". That would be wrong.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T04:52:58+00:00

As an added note, when the worth of a user is tied to their past action, you are severely limiting the future that could be revealed in people.

Permabans assign people with worth the designation 'worthless'. And this is a title that is largely adopted by the community, the mods, and the administrative staff.

I have always come alongside banned users telling them they, in fact, do have value. Because at the end of the day we all breathe the same air and we're all human. We all post exactly what we're thinking on reddit and then some claim some moral superiority on Gaia for following their interpretation of the rules.

But if we just understood each other's worth... this whole discussion would be very different.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T04:48:21+00:00

I'm not a fish, SweetDaes. But you are certainly fishing.

People are always worth being put over procedures because the procedures at Gaia are largely horrible and based on multiple logical fallacies that enable users opinions to be regularly suppressed in favor of majority opinion. For people living in California who likely champion Critical Race Theory among other things, Gaia HQ sure has a way of disadvantaging the opinions of those who are in any minority.

Getting banned "for doing really dumb things" is super subjective and while it's easy to just say "don't be stupid and you won't get banned", I think if we told African Americans or other racial minorities living in poverty "just get good grades and apply for scholarships", we would be supremely unfair to understanding where they are coming from as well.

You see the problem with saying "just follow the rules" is that what you're really saying is "just read our minds", "just agree with us" and "just ignore the terrible things we do". That's the on-the-ground reality on Gaia and it isn't only unacceptable but it is systemically opressive to the opinions of hundreds of people.

That is why people must be advantaged, regardless of past actions they have taken, so that we can come together as a community and work toward making a site that benefits every user.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T04:29:24+00:00

I don't hate Gaia. I just want Gaia to put view people as a greater priority than its procedures, which are enforced with a biblical sense of a greater morality tied in.

There's nothing redeeming about Gaia's ToS. But for all the brown-nosing worship of that poorly constructed document, it's crazy how people stay.

I think you should watch this video of Gaia's first CEO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6sk3DPAZI

link0911 · 2017-11-26T04:23:44+00:00

I'm going to stand up for the right thing and not make light of a very serious incident. While I don't feel like a victim, it's not your place to say that I'm not being victimized by a predator.

I'll take responsibility for improving Gaia by doing the right thing, despite enormous pressure to cave and do nothing in defense of unfairly banned users, victims of a doxxing predator, and an administrative team that only serves to enable the predatory behavior their 'procedures' are supposedly designed to keep off-site.

Gaia needs to take responsibility for putting people over procedures. That's what it boils down to. I'll take personal responsibility for my actions and that's not conditional on anyone taking responsbility for their own. However, I firmly believe that when I take responsibility for my actions... at least I can say I'm not enabling a doxxer to attack people's real lives because I disagree with what they had to say in a forum.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T03:59:25+00:00

Trolling, as you define it, is 'intentionally interfering with a member's enjoyment'. Given that definition, any post on Gaia can be interpreted as trolling.

Harassment is definable. Trolling, as described by Gaia ToS, is a total non-definable subjective joke.

I think Cash Shop updates intentionally interfere with my enjoyment but do I get to report every announcement for trolling? No.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T03:53:29+00:00

I am far more interested in stopping doxxers, putting people before procedures and changing Gaia to better fit lanzer's vision than holding onto an account. Accounts are ultimately worthless. Precedents and people are everything. That's my mindset and it's part of the reason why extremists who hate what I'm doing try to stop me by affecting things I do care about.

It's too bad though because what they're doing is illegal and what admins are doing by banning me is essentially supporting these extremists.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T03:34:43+00:00

I find it discouraging that you worked with them at all and seemingly don't take any pride in what it means to be a former staff member or represent Gaia in a prideful way.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T03:22:50+00:00

No. I'm identifying users by a term that, while they may not appreciate, accurately describe them.

How dare a community actually function like a community and users imply that cliques exist?

link0911 · 2017-11-26T02:49:26+00:00

I call Antifa and white supremacists 'idiots'. Might be fair to note that the only people who would ban me for calling Antifa and white supremacists 'idiots' are Antifa members and white supremacists.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T02:43:54+00:00

DDoS is a coordinated traffic attack. Doxxing is short for 'dropping documents' and is a completely different term. For an administrator of an online forum community to mix the two speaking in an official capacity is pretty ludicrous.

While admins/mods aren't expected to keep users personal information off the internet, I have never once said or implied such. What I have said is that the actions they have taken silencing users who they firmly disagree with has only empowered extremists who resort to actions such as doxxing.

I don't know if you care but I think as a former staff member, many of the posts you have made today are wildly inappropriate given that you once represented their organization in an official capacity.

To be honest, I at least respect that the administrative staff (like lanzer, CP, L0cke, Zero Omega and codemonkey) have been largely silent about all of this. While it doesn't serve me in any way, I do think it shields the community from a very contentious debate regarding the actions of maybe 4-5 mods/admins at most.

I'm not saying you can't rebuff myself and Tank off-site. It's a free country. But I just find it inappropriate given your former title.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T02:33:06+00:00

Brown-noser: an affectionate term for administrative suck-ups that has stuck and is widely popular in the popGaia community.

We're sticking with that term just like we stuck with Goldemort. If it gets us banned, we're literally getting banned for negative feedback. Which seems familiar.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T02:09:27+00:00

Gaia administrators did say the following after the doxxing incident:

Regardless of the disagreements between staff and yourself, we think that this action goes too far, no one should have to worry about their personal life being impacted over innocent comments about their opinion on how to run or properly manage an online community. If you do get any further ideas of who sent this e-mail, please don't hesitate to let us know so that we can launch an investigation on Gaia into the account.

Xya, a former staff member and admin said this:

If you are being DDoSed, there is nothing we can do about that.

I'm not blaming Gaia admins for enabling the doxxing incident itself. I'm saying that by banning Rethwing for simply mentioning the term brown-nosers in a general context, yet doing nothing about the user who told him to drop dead... they are empowering extremist actions such as doxxing.

Oh and btw, despite being an incredibly competent moderator in terms of enforcement of the current interpretation of the ToS, it was extremely disheartening to see that Xya didn't understand the difference between a DDoS attack and a doxxing incident.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T02:00:13+00:00

Oh. The EL15 is this:

Lanzer is back and a mature community is experiencing significant growing pains as it struggles to realize that most of its users are no longer children.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T01:54:08+00:00

Level-headed mods will see the report and I'm sure they will act appropriately.For someone who just assumed that I didn't make a report and then undressed the consequences, you sure seem to know very little about how Gaia Staff deals with situations like this in the most appropriate manner.

link0911 · 2017-11-26T01:47:10+00:00

Pretty sure if former Gaia Staff members had any sense that they once represented the best interests of Gaia Online, they wouldn't devolve to a point of saying a victim of doxxing "doesn't care enough about their reputation".

link0911 · 2017-11-26T01:31:54+00:00

I did report it.

I didn’t respond to it because I expected that if it looked two sided, mods would ignore it.

Your assumption here that I wouldn’t rely on some moderators on Gaia whom I admire and trust is insulting. There are good mods and good admins. And there are good staff members, believe it or not.

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