Posts by silverdrifter24

It's my party — honestly sounds like some absolute trash from Katy Perry’s teen dream era. Just bad. Barely even listenable... 2/10

I still love you just like I used to 🙏

There's this whole other world out there—honestly, it’s not even worth bringing up because nothing else can touch it... ☕

😂 This thread is absolute gold!

Everything’s fine until they start threatening you with private investigators...🧐

I just love Whitney Houston. Every time someone brings her up, I get this lump in my throat and my eyes just well up...
Picking a favorite song is impossible. They’re all special, just different vibes.

But man, that effortless way she sang? That was something else. I truly believe a talent like hers only comes around once in three centuries. 🙂

It’s such a shame she went down that path—and I mean that from the perspective of those of us watching from the outside, knowing exactly what she could have been if things had gone differently...

Anyway, she's in a better, more beautiful place now.

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I'm with Agassi on this one. There’s just too much of it lately. All the insults, all the constant poking... I actually found an old post from back when Gregory Adams3 called me stupid. Maybe it was just childish or whatever, and I didn't take it to heart personally, but if it isn't worth keeping for the record, it should be deleted. From what I understand, that kind of stuff isn't allowed here. If I were someone else, it could have escalated into something way more serious 😉
Since we're nitpicking though... This is just one example of...

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hehe, rustydrifter10... we're talking picks here... I've got my ATP Picks (tables, predictions) and my WTA Picks (tables, predictions), hehe 🙂

Anyway, let's move on from that...

Keep us posted on the results. Hoping for a win at the finish line 🙂

rustydrifter10 said:Regarding that, we run into glitches sometimes and reports don't always go through. If it isn't too much trouble, it might be a good idea to just DM one of the moderators if there’s a specific issue with a PDF and they haven't responded to the report button...

The moderators for that PDF decide which threads get pinned.

I checked how much they moderate over on the tennis board, I'll dig a little deeper.

Yeah, that report button can lag or just fail entirely, but the moderators are supposed to be here to track user achievements and crack down on insults. I know that's how other subforums operate... 😉

If one topic is pinned at the top (ATP) and another isn't (WTA), I think it only makes sense for them both to be pinned or neither... 🤣
We aren't asking to pin some random chat thread or something totally useless for navigation. But fine.

Fine.

Fortaleza might be active in handball, skiing, or whatever other random sports exist, but when it comes to tennis, he hasn't been around much lately.
Moses is the same way. If he only shows up once every six months, all you can leave is this: 🤣(I have no clue why he even has moderation duties given he isn't qualified)

Those aren't moderators to me! If just being present on the forum is the only requirement for moderation, then fine, great! But those moderators should actually show their faces!

Basically: the subforum itself is totally unbalanced.
nobody reacts to reported posts
nobody reacts to appeals to make certain threads stickies

Quite frankly, Louie just can't do it (he can claim he can, but the facts say otherwise), and everyone else is just nowhere to be found! They aren't in the tennis section! They aren't accessible... you practically need to send them a telegram to get a hold of them...

I'm not suggesting slytinker11 because she knows her stuff, and moderation would just limit her potential.

I suggest Greco!

I already started typing you a DM asking why the hell this thread was locked.

Fine, whatever..

Look, sorry, but I don't think you actually get what's going on here. The actual proposal and the reasoning behind it were laid out right in the first post.

Is "the subforum is a mess because the moderators are MIA" really not a good enough reason? 🤣And hey, their absence is their own business, I guess.

Look, Louis needs some backup, period. Let the current mods stay inactive if they want—that's their private life, fine. But it’s our problem when nobody reacts to reported posts.. It means the whole subforum is falling apart... etc.

Sorry, but me opening this topic and posting a real suggestion was way more constructive than your reply.

So, the bottom line is: we want a new moderator who actually shows up! Someone active—because being absent is their own damn business!

Thanks a lot 🎉

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Look, this PDF in the title is a mess when it comes to moderation. We've got 4(!!!!) registered moderators listed, but 3 of them—Moses, slytinker11, and Fortaleza!!!!—haven't shown their faces or actually moderated anything in forever. Honestly, I don't think we even need more than 2, maybe 3, as long as they actually show up and do the work!
Louis (my favorite) does a great job, but he can't carry the whole thing on his own.

In my opinion, those three should have their authority stripped and handed over to people who actually care.

Please take my suggestion into account to improve the quality of this PDF and, ultimately, the entire forum.

The active users hanging out in our little sub-forum mostly agree with me, which is just one more reason to actually do something about this. This whole place wouldn't even function without the users anyway... ☕

Thanks and best regards! 🙂

silverpanther13 said:hmm, what are we even talking about here? Are all these festivals just lip-syncing acts? 🤔

Look, if they don't allow lip-syncing, then there isn't any lip-syncing. It's not rocket science... 😬

I honestly can't think of a single festival out there that mixes live vocals with playback sets. It just doesn't happen... 🤔

Playback is nothing but straight-up lying to the audience if the singer claims they’re performing live while just mouthing the words. Those pre-recorded setups are the absolute worst. You're trying so hard to trick people into thinking it's a "live" set... but honestly? People aren't as clueless as you think. They can tell immediately.

Most big US festivals basically demand playback performances, and if you ask me, you shouldn't blame the artists—blame the organizers. Most of those festivals are a joke anyway, but whatever, that's a whole different conversation.

Look, if a singer is sick or physically can't hit the notes that night, I don't have a problem with them using playback. In that specific case, it actually serves a purpose. Canceling a show just leaves fans pissed off, and nobody's out to ruin someone's night like that.
On the flip side, personally, I view lip-syncing as being just as bad as someone standing on stage butchering every single note. If you're globally famous because of massive hits but you can't actually sing, there's no shame in using playback. The shows will sell out regardless because of your name alone, whether the vocals are there or not.
No matter how you slice it, someone is going to make fun of you. ☕

Besides, in today's music industry, playback has just become the norm, whether we like it or not. It happens because of mediocre vocals, intense choreography, or whatever else. That's just the reality of it.
The truth is, all these acts still draw huge crowds despite the lip-syncing.

Personally, I don't mind playback, even though I'll always prefer hearing a real live performance whenever I pay to see a concert.
It's all just show business... ☕