Is it just me or does anyone else think the pace of the forum has slowed down the last few months. Is everybody to busy playing there pipes or are people just not bothering to post any more ? Where there used to be a constant stream of posts everyday ,we are now lucky if there is half a dozen in a day,and the weekends seem even slower.
Whats going on ?
RORY
I told myself that I should be practicing more and posting less…DAMN IT! Now look at what you’ve made me do! 
I have definitely noticed fewer posts lately, especially by Rory. I was starting to worry about him. I even tried to stir the waters yesterday with some jokes about vpipes and the new villeann piping forum, and no response. Maybe just not that funny… I am practicing less, surfing the forum the same amount. Maybe someone should conduct a survey about how much time we spend practicing versus surfing…
Maybe there’s just nothing more to say.
Just wait until my set arrives in October. I will make it a point to post weekly updates as I attempt to avoid divorce and murder at the hands of my wife and children. 
This is my first post. 
Piping like crazy.
I really hadn’t noticed… 
I don’t know whether it’s that bad…For example, the whistle forum is much more active, and with even less new info passed I think.
Pity that Peter is gone…
Maybe you guys have gone past the point of ‘vast new information’ and now it simply takes longer and longer for anything truly new to pop up. And since some people get bored easily…they stop posting. Leaving a board filled with ‘I just bought a these pipes’ and ‘where do I begin’ questions.
I agree. But, that’s what he wanted. Maybe he’ll return someday under a new user-name.
If you really want to know
(and to be bold):
The list was a great resource early on, including in David’s (Daye) previous manifestation. To be frank, it was invaluable, helpful, and full of great posts. I am told by many of the former fine contributers, that they have given up on the list due to the sheer amount of nonsensical posts, and/or occasionally drop by to find that indeed the list is simply not as good as “the good auld days.”
I agree with this for the most part but I can’t help thinking that if folk truly want this and other lists to be more beneficial for themsleves and to other pipers, then they ought to show a little spine, stop lamenting the good times past and contribute quality posts to these lists, like you do Padraig… and I enjoy and get a lot out of your posts BTW.
I’m not suggesting that posts be nothing but serious pipe talk, but to those out there who have given up sharing their knowledge because they feel there isn’t enough ‘quality’ contribution (and you know who you are), I ask that they lighten up and do something constructive. If folk do not like the current trend on this and other lists, do something positive to better them.
Sometimes I get the impression that a lot of pipers are simply big babies. 
Brazenkaine: You’re right. The experience with message boards shows that this happens very often, because the truly knowledgeable people, who started the board leave in time - and sometimes they are replaced by people of “equal” knowledge, sometimes not. And certain joy of “yippee, I can meet people who do the same” can hardly endure reading 953526th What whistle should I play?
This is not to say that local people are not knowledgeable - just that it’s a trend of message boards.
I have seen several boards to be shining glorious, and then dwindling in 2-4 years to state where old veterans sometimes visit, see it’s not the place it used to be, and go again. And I can’t rememer a message board, where the same collective would last for much more than 3-4 years. People change, they come and go.
And sometimes, the activity of moderators is crucial, as well. When moderating another board here, we used to be there every day, talking, joking etc. After 3 years, it dried out a bit - it can be hardly endured for so long. But as the community grows in numbers (quadratically, I’d say, whereas quality grows logaritmically ), more time has to be spend on moderating, and less on posting.
Maybe things will pick up in September, especially as most of our posters live in the Northern Hemisphere.
that’s very kind of you. Thanks.
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Wake up, wake uuuuup, darling Corey…
Actually for two reasons I blame the grumpy old scotch geyser. For one he’s always telling the newcomers to get off their computer and start practising and second, if you translate his signature into English you will see he telling you not to say anything if you have nothing to say. Well 99.9% of the time I have nothing to say and it never stops me,in fact the only thing that stops me posting more often is my one fingered typing techique.
RORY
Alas, I’m still so clueless in my piping that I don’t even know what I need to ask let alone how to ask it.
If it helps though, I’ve been using the search feature to try to save y’all from at least a little interrogative redundancy.
Scotch geyser or geezer, BTW? (or both?) 