Group DIY Censorship Is Out Of Control

[Tubetec]

I never accessed the political/controversial section ,so I have no idea what it was like ,
Its no wonder it wasnt popular though , it seemed more like an invitation to pick a fight .

Now all the uncomfortable topics and the people who made them are out of the way ,
and theres talk of it being shut down .

Owing to the number of my posts removed from the brewery and its impact on my reaction score , I can only assume I topped a list of people targeted because of their views, I hold no lasting resentment towards any members , no one was forced to read my posts .

I do recall in the melee surrounding the changing of the rules and moving of the goal posts in Brewery , a not so frequent member wishing it was closed and all reaction scores accumulated in there cancelled , well you know what they say ,be careful what you wish for ,it might just come true .

I see now the 'This too shall pass' thread has also vanished and the people who contributed in a good spirit are treated just the same as the people who argued at every turn of the page and so the entropy continues ...........

[mediatechnology]

I try hard to put myself in other's shoes but, my wife is pretty tiny...lol

Yeah but you look pretty good in those high heels.

I read pucho's OP and it was fine yet anyone can swoop into a thread, derail it and JR - being fully cucked by management or someone like livingsounds - moves the thread into no man's land.

It's not just the Brewery either. Sometime in the last couple of years I posted a legacy Triad catalog in the technical documents section that was too big to upload so I linked to it. Some newbie whiner complained and it was summarily deleted by AbbeyRoad de Enfer. No thank you, no offer to upload - he just deleted it without the courtesy of even contacting me. I was super-pissed and ended up posting it in the formerly paid-for White Market area. After that I never posted any tech documents. Why bother to do something nice if you're going to be treated like shit. The adherence to Ethan's rules - who is no longer with us and hasn't been for years - serves as a convenient excuse for being control-freak dicks.

And speaking of being a dick this is classic JR in post #3: https://proaudiodesignforum.com/forum/p ... .php?t=960

He didn't like the idea but the problem was he'd never heard of a TL431 and didn't have a clue about it. Then he claims that the TL431 is some "specialty" circuit:

For DIY do what floats your boat, in large scale production I have seen small specialty circuits come and go... hopefully its primary function (shunt regulator?) will keep it in active production for a while.

The TL431 is probably the most widely-sold analog IC ever and there's usually at least one in every switching power supply since the late 1970s. IIRC at the time Mouser had several million in stock. The squirrel killer pissed on the idea but he knew absolutely nothing about the IC so he couldn't honestly critique the design or even understand the basic concept. I got tired of his arrogant ignorance. I'm sure the day he left Peavy - or was terminated - was a huge source of relief for Hartley. Thorn removed from side. I tolerated him until he became the censor.

FWIW I ended up using this circuit in the production AudioScape XL-305 as a current shunt monitor. JR hasn't designed anything in years if not decades other than a meter for APB Dynasonics.

[scott2000]

I never accessed the political/controversial section ,so I have no idea what it was like ,
Its no wonder it wasnt popular though , it seemed more like an invitation to pick a fight .

Me neither... pfft..anything appears to be an invitation to pick a fight for some...
I'm waiting for someone to come complain that JR and I are talking about working on our old vehicles that should be banned to the land in their eyes..

this is classic JR

I don't know... I like a good clash of the titans when it comes to things I don't understand... Being as technically dumb as I am allows me to see there are no losers in those battles....
Hopefully one day you guys will work through it.

Can't wait for Thanksgiving... Just realized I'm starving....

[mediatechnology]

I'm waiting for someone to come complain that JR and I are talking about working on our old vehicles that should be banned to the land in their eyes..

I posted about how flooded electric vehicles were exploding in Florida and the little prick livingsounds asked it to be moved to no man's land.
How is it that is controversial?
It isn't: It's a personal attack against me by a little dick socialist control freak who's overly sensitive and cucks JR.

[Tubetec]

https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?t=31607

I only just found this piece , comments to follow ,

[mediatechnology]

At one time I had the address and phone number for Keith Ubben in San Marcos and a lot of information from Free Stomp Boxes and my own research which I shared with Ian Bell and JR via GDIY PM.

Those PMs apparently were intercepted, read and deleted from the GDIY site.

Ubben also has the homebrew site and sells brewing equipment and supplies. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/

I also was in communication with Faith Lopez and had the GDIY sales brochure which I publicly posted on GDIY. After that Faith would not communicate with me to respond to my inquiries about running a banner ad. If GDIY did not have something to hide it wouldn't have the need to ban people who question them regarding ownership and intent.

Somehow JR believes that Ethan still calls the shots and won't modify policy until he hears from Ethan that its OK. I don't know if that's an excuse or he's deluded.

I think that there are also shills at GDIY that takeover old inactive accounts and assume the identity of the original. These accounts posted in the Brewery and were use to counter "disinformation." Some people, who are members,may be getting paid. The evidence of this - in other fora and media - was discovered during Covid.

I know this occurs because it happened once here with posts by Roger Foote that discussed geoengineering. Some impostor associated with the site "metabunk" took over an active member's account - in violation of forum rules - to counter Roger. The active member later admitted that he had allowed someone else to use his account which is how Roger and I discovered the fraud.

GDIY is a dumpster fire and it appears to be getting worse not better. I struggled to find any content that really interested me and when I did post there were some individuals that seemed hostile which drowned out the majority of ones that were not. thor.zmt was one of the worst.

[Tubetec]

Nothing new , but it at least confirms the underhanded modus operandi of Groupbuilder.com ,

I just visited Groupdiy and this morning theres a new banner add selling mainly cheap soldering equipment ,
I suggest every member as well as vistors to Groupdiy who want to silently voice their objection to the way the place is being run to use their favourite add block software to kill this income stream ,built off the backs of the people who contributed in good faith ,without remuneration .

I did find another site with a listing about group builder , each of the reviews gave a glowing report about the management , each of the posts used an almost identical wording and a load of what seemed like outlandishly fake sounding user names .

My own experience at Groupdiy also lends creedence to the idea that PM's were being hacked and email addresses harvested from them ,
The only place I ever entered my current email was in Pm and some how my email contact details at Groupdiy were changed without my permission or knowledge .

https://groupbuilder.com/privacy.php
Their privacy policy which isnt easily accessible via the main home page ,

And a little excerpt from their webpage ,
'Buying your forum
If you're seeking a steward to offer you the best price and respect your community long-term, our multi-decade track record shows our commitment to forums and members.'
Well we know thats total bullshit .

[scott2000]

I only just found this piece , comments to follow ,

all of the links to gdiy from that post are gone...
I actually tried saving gdiy, and a page of API schematics from there in Wayback since it has that function restored now but , for whatever reason, the gdiy url is excluded from there.. Not sure what to make of that ..it's off limits to mere mortals....

[Tubetec]

Well ,
Obviously the reason Groupbuilder havnt included their websites on waybackmachine is they want a way to cleanup unfavourable content that emerges,
Fortunately many concerned Gdiy users will have screen captured the interactions surrounding the events in question ,
Maybe it might be a good idea to create a space where people can anonymously dump screen captures of the deleted posts .

[Tubetec]

Something new today ,
A discrete pop up advert appeared on Groupdiy for the PCBA fabrication service,
this commecialisation is only going to get worse ,
its relatively easy for anyone to kill the adds on the page , adds that pop up in their own box are a bit more tricky to stop .