I wasn't. Honest.

txladykat said:

oh my God will you two stop quoting up top...its confusing the hell out of me.

Ironically, the only boot that was ever sent to me was unsolicited by an org member. I got an email that only said "check this out". It was instrumental. I asked whose it was and was told it was a prince boot. That is the only time I listened to a boot.

The Prince 'fan' community is a pretty weird place for Prince fans to be. Which is pretty weird. I mean it seems like you're an outsider if u like Prince. Difficult to share your enthusiasm without getting flamed. Which is what's been eating me personally in the last while and came to a head when I expressed a view on the legal situation at HQ and was shouted down even though the analysis offered has turned out to be pretty on the money as far as what happened since.

Since I've kind of 'lost the rag' a little with these haters, how weird must it be for the subject of the fandom to be aware that such is such? Ask the Kaiser Chiefs if they'll be kindly disposed towards a fan site with their name and image all over it which pretty much preaches that they're nasty people?

It's fu*king NUTS is what it is.

I don't give two fu*ks what happened with Uptown or Housequake really. Whay should I? No really. Is it unreasonable to not wanna know their business and their gripes? I feel like I've been forced to take a view on their decade-old whinging about Prince simply because the latest gripes and provocations from them are being posted all over the community.

There was a time not so long ago when I seemed to be able to use HQ and the Org without getting involved with it at all but when you're having the greatest Prince summer of the decade you want to stay in touch with the other enthusiasts throughout. Except that the sherpy nerp nerps just won't HOLD IT DOWN. They HAVE to make you appreciate how Prince is a lying cheating scumbag. So you look at the evidence and you notice that there's NOTHING from his side of things...just aggrieved accounts that those who are baying for Prince's blood haven't even taken the trouble to read anyway.

It's N.U.T.S is what it is.

I'm almost bored with it all now. It was fun baiting the haters for a while but they really are from the Land that Fuckwit Forgot.

Jaysus and his dancing ducks!

lspear76 said:

Oh and why are they Bringing the Org in the discussion by telling Web Sheriff to check out the photos on here. They probably know about the photos on here but the problem seems to be Housequake face it prince probably does not like the site, where housequake spouts about independence, you can be independent without causing friction for yourself.

And telling Web Sheriff/Prince to Go fuck thereselves aint going to help

I don't get ur point Gemini

txladykat said:

just a joke about winning friends when posting something that could be perceived as snitching...with that being said, the org doesn't even allow folks to subtly hint at trading boots in private.

sosgemini said:

thanks for the clarification. however, if i was "snitching" don't you think I would have provided the member name? Also, I obviously am not "trading" as I clearly stated that item was sent to me unsolicited and that I had no desire to even receive the item. I made the comment because so many people are constantly bashing housequake because of that particular forum, when it was not even a housequake member who sent me something unsolicited. There was not even a hint of trading whatsoever in my post, merely a mention that someone had sent me something unsolicited.

btw. you only quoted part of my post, which actually takes it completely out of context and makes it seem as if that is all I am doing. if the whole post was quoted, it would very well show it was not a cheap shot.

but, since it was mentioned, i am so tired of the holier than thou attitude (and I am not referring to you). People want to bash the quake for running a bootleg forum and say we should respect Prince's wishes, and all the while some of those very same people actively trade. it is hypocracy at its best.

I love the quake, and I love the org. I am an active member on both, I have friends on both, I love qualities about both. I have never been one to get into arguments with others, I have never been warned for violating the rules because I play nice and I play fair. I really just don't get why the "our place is better than yours" attitude. Why can't both places be good for their own reasons? You have good seeds and bad seeds on all boards, not just one site or the other.

At last, Housequake is getting its comeuppance. Normally, I don't delight in the hardships of others and in what may bring discouragement, but the hostile, egocentric moderators on that site had a public bitch slap coming to them.

At last, Housequake is getting its comeuppance. Normally, I don't delight in the hardships of others and in what may bring discouragement, but the hostile, egocentric moderators on that site had a public bitch slap coming to them.

I'd already decided that I'd let my personal grieviances about HQ go come October 1st so I offer this constructively:
Aaron, from what little I've read of him (he's fairly quiet on HQ) is a guy that anyone can deal with. He's got a 'long fuse'.
But there are moderators on HQ who have very short fuses and who are incapable of moderating their own expression never mind those of the users of the site.

In the realest of terms, if so many users are upset with the way that they've been treated on a fan site where not just negative but full-on abusive treatment of the object of fandom seems to be positively encouraged, then what is the object of the fandom to think?
Find me another fan site where there is that kind of 'house vibe'.
Would a younger band like, say, Kaiser Chiefs, like it if their fan site pursued a general vibe of 'The Kaiser Chiefs are a bunch of shitheads'? Would they want to tolerate the use of their name and image on that site?

HQ has many fans but many of them have uncategorically stated that they hate Prince. No matter what Prince does, they want to see it as a refecltion of THEIR image of him. That's up to them but what's unreasonable is thinking that Prince would want to treat them in the same way as his ACTUAL fans.

HQ needs to moderate ITSELF and apply that moderation as policy on their site.
This is not censorship unless getting a grip is an act of self-censorship (actually it is)

Copycat said:

so by the sounds of it you are not 'welcoming' refugee's from HQ!

very sad to read that some members are playing "tennis" on what is so this and so that about HQ and/or the org.

in the end what is happening to HQ has to do with all of us as Prince fans/fams (whatever you like to call yourselves).

I hope this will not happen though as this is happening it might happen to the org. in the future as well. So stop being so damn arrogant!!!

Now would be a good time for everyone to remember that love conquers all.

I love you.

very sad to read that some members are playing "tennis" on what is so this and so that about HQ and/or the org.

in the end what is happening to HQ has to do with all of us as Prince fans/fams (whatever you like to call yourselves).

I hope this will not happen though as this is happening it might happen to the org. in the future as well. So stop being so damn arrogant!!!

so by the sounds of it you are not 'welcoming' refugee's from HQ!

How sad to read that ur dissin HQ for dissin the Org, which in turn makes u just as bad.

Come to any Prince forum and get urself in a war off pfffft

its a shame.

tammie said:

i disagree. not everyone would have handled things the same way in response to requests/letters. not saying how HQ handled it was right or wrong. I'm sure they did the best they can under the circumstances. i just don't believe that this battle/problem between Prince and HQ should automatically translates to battle between all fans and Prince.