Thought this was a pretty entertaining read, it's from our old friend Prussell, responding to the news of the end of CBS.
Shit, I never knew an internetz forum, about music of all things, could create such hostility. Remember, these are NOT my views, just stumbled accross it on that Detroit Luv forum. Ironically, he is the one who told me about CBS back in the day.
Hope your robot exoskeleton is reinforced. (will elefant skin help a robot?)
Now don't go on a tirade on Detroit Luv. Don't make me regret posting this. I just thought it was interesting to read an opposite view of things.
"whatever.
i joined the CBS in 2004, after lurking since its inception. i donated tracks to the database, i contributed to discussions.
yet, all contributions were met with no thanks and a sense of elitism that grew and grew until it became what it was in the last couple years: a contrived, grotesque version of its past self, all for the sole purpose of stroking Ferenc's ego. i stopped frequenting the board after it was announced that most areas would be unavailable to view unless you donated heavily (it was already in place that you must donate to list items for sale), and also after he announced that he would not tolerate any opinions that were not parallel to his own (he constantly threatened to ban). this is true; i believe one of his phrases was "free speech does not apply here...this is my domain" or something along those lines.
perhaps i was just being idealistic, but i thought that forum existed for discussing music, good or bad. yet there were times when i spoke out against what i thought were over-hyped or cheesy tracks, only to have Ferenc or his worshipers step in....he deleted threads about music or artists he didn't like, even if he was able to speak freely (and negatively) about them. of course, at the end there were very few of the 'old heads' on there, and instead was overrun by bandwagon-jumping noobs who were more than happy to hang on his gospel every word, defending the worst music and seemingly either too afraid or brainwashed to form their own opinions.
the final straw for me personally was when he mobilized an attack on Interdimensional Transmissions...not once, but twice. both times he made outrageous claims filled with flat-out lies and slanderous remarks (even though he knows IT has full documentation to corroborate their side of it), including thinly-veiled encouragements of violence and threats against BMG & Erika. of course it was no surprise BMG had a mailbox full of death threats from CBS "robots" the next morning. mind you, both times this did not end until they called Ferenc directly to ask him WTF was his deal, at which point he would back down and post on the CBS that "problem was resolved, no need to threaten anymore because "it worked".
as an addendum, i also tried to bring him to Detroit on 2 different occasions, only to have him cancel each time because he would read V for Vendetta again and decide that the US was a totalitarian fascist regime and refused to interact with any American (according to his agent).
don't be sad for the CBS going away, be sad for what it became...."
