Ok, I"m going to add my thoughts as well. I understand completely that you don't want random crap cluttering the forums up and I agree with that completely. But I figure we're taking it a bit too far when that regulation starts to overwhelm things like the Open Discussion section. If someone posts something nonsensical in the Music Theory section, then that's not helping anyone learn anything and I agree that that kind of thing must not happen. But isn't the open discussion supposed to be a section where we engage in whatever we want?

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Furthermore, what about the mods? How many of the mods have posted nonsense? I'm not going to go and point fingers, but it's not like we couldn't make a list of nonsense that mods have made.

In addition to that, not all of us are just registered users. Some of us are high bandwidth, paying customers. I don't use the lessons as much as I could, but part of the reason I pay is because I want to help the forum, but I don't know if I like the idea of paying if it starts feeling more like a dictatorship. I know, you probably make enough money from this already to be able to afford banning a good number of high bandwidth users, so how much does this one matter, right?

Again, I understand and agree there should be limits and things like what goes on in the yep thread should stay contained in places like the yep thread, but if you're goal is to completely annhililate all every size shape and form of such a thing then why wait any longer? This forum has become more of a family to me than my real family. I've learned a lot here, and I've grown a lot here, and those are things I wouldn't give up for anything. But I still contribute to the nonsense. Sometimes nonsense just seems like the best thing to say. But I still do it. No amount of help elsewhere on the site can change the fact that I post nonsense. So I'm part of the problem. The shots are yours to call, so it's not like you really need my, or anyone else's permission to do what you want. It's your forum. Make it what you want it to be. If you're going to ban people that post nonsense for posting nonsense then start with me.