The Never Ending Pool

i totally agree with you, zimmy1.

new fans bring a fresh perspective and an oft-needed dose of enthusiasm.

we were all new fans at one time.

zimmy1 wrote:

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I like hearing there views on the world of bob as they are only now discovering what a lot of us have allready experienced and wish we could experience for the first time again

Hear Hear

at the old dylanpool, by the way, tim out of mind never had a bad word to say about anybody, and yet a number of people came to really hate him, due mostly to his intentionally and persistently insipid persona.

as for me, tim could almost always make me laugh in spite of myself. it was like "i don't want to laugh at this, but i just can't help it." he'd just keep at it until he wore you down.

i was at a bob gig a few years ago and was talking to a couple of young fans, they must have been about 17 years old .They had the dylan shirts on and were all excited at seeing hin live.I asked them if it was there first concert and they told me it was.I asked them what they hoped he would sing, to which one replied " i hope he sings corrina corrina as it's one of my favourites.Do you think he'll sing it ? unfortunatly i had to reply not a chance lol !! but i hadn't thought about that particular song in a long while and it made me smile.

finding two 17 years old who (a) had heard of bob dylan, (b) had heard of corrina, corrina and (c) wanted to hear bob dylan sing corrina, corrina is quite a remarkable feat indeed.

they were girls as well

Welcome back ACP.

Let me apologize for Josepi, middle school started back for him last week and he is all out of sorts. He's in 8th grade now and next year he will be headed to the big High School! So, you can imagine how big his head is at a pubescent time like this.

Hope to see more of you around, this place could use a good jump start.

Just don't make fun of anyone's spelling, Head guy at this site takes it personally, even if it has nothing to do with him!

God Bless.
Mr. Lewis

Tim is a great moderator. Where the hell have you been?

angry crow puking wrote[in part]:

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in his [Arthur Louie's] absence, incessant flame wars erupted, in part because a group of callous sophisticates who were long-time dylanpool users considered younger, newer and less knowledgeable users to be a nuisance

I don't agree, in general, with this statement.

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anyway, with arlo gone, threads tended to get out of control until arlo drastically compounded the problem by appointing two heavy-handed moderators who acted with bias, in secrecy and without explanation.

All humans act with bias, so that, to me, is a non-issue. Sometimes, it is necessary for moderators and administration to act in a confidential manner, and are not required to explain their every action to the users, in general.

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i don't blame arlo one bit for closing it when he did, but i do blame him for abandoning it in the first place. he need only have checked in once a week or so to maintain a presence, and that would have made all the difference.

I agree with the thrust of angry crow puking's remark, here. But Arthur did not want to be checking in once a week or so. Given this, what he failed to do was to grant his moderators authority to ban or suspend a user's priveleges when they deemed it necessary.

It's not hard to understand why DylanPool failed: moderators without authority. That never works, no matter the enterprise.

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do i personally share some of the blame for the end of the old dylanpool? yes, sure i do. many of us do. and it saddens me to this day.

That acp acknowledges some blame is commendable. That he is still saddened to this day, I find doubtful. But then that's just my opinion.

To say, however, that "many" share the blame for the demise of DylanPool, some perspective is needed. Think of the rotton apple that spoils all the apples in the box. Of the couple of hundred active contributors at the DPool forums, there were also about a dozen or so "bad actors." Some were "regulars," some not. So, to say that "many" share the blame, the reference needs to be made concerning many of the dozen or so.

angry crow puking wrote:

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obviously, i haven't visited this site for a while,
but is this for real?

someone made tim out of mind a moderator?

wow. apparently they'll let anyone mod these days.

this really blows my mind.


does tim punish you if you don't make an overabundance of inane posts?

does he constantly insist that he's gotta have more cowbell?


i've really got to visit here more often.

very glad to see you here acp. welcome to The Never Ending Pool!!

the wait has been too long, but please, there is one more thing...

I'M 52 !

angry crow puking wrote:

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josepi, is "your momma" really the wittiest reply you could come up with?

zimmy1, you may be a "Platinum Boarder" but you don't have a clue what my relationship is with tim out of mind.

mightflynn, thanks for your observation. i have no doubt that what you say is true.

somelocalloser, thanks for the 4*um Cat welcome. i appreciate it.

Little Mittens was happy to oblige.

He's out at his post getting some sun now.

Here Timmie, more cowbell:

Crow, your humor and insight have been missed. Stick around for awhile. By the way...Tim was a great choice for moderator. No complaints from me! You'll find that all of the mods are active here and respected. Hopefully that will keep this place alive.

And thank you all for the kind words and cowbells

And fair play to you, angry crow puking.

I'm 34.