I’ve asked Rich to make the Uilleann Pipes section of the board a read-only forum. This will allow interested users to access the material that has been posted there since the forum was established. Visitors will not be able to post.
I’m taking this action without certainty about whether I will open the forum again or, if I do, when. It will give me a chance to consider options.
The dilemma is that most of the posts and most of the users play by the rules. They recognize that it’s my board and I’ve entitled to have something to say about proper behavior when people use the board. The problem is that the few people who won’t respect the rules create too much grief for me and, frankly, there’s just no incentive for me to continue with it.
As always happens, those who post nasty things about people and their businesses will cry censorship and claim that they weren’t allowed to express negative views on the forum. I’ll now repeat that’s just not the case. There are courteous ways to post negative views. Most know how to do this and some either don’t know how to do so or don’t care to do so.
That said, I’ll be thinking about some possibilities and I’ll post here later if I come up with something.
I’d like to express my regrets to those of you have made good use of the UP forum. I hope to try to work something out for you in the not-too-distant future.