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On jude77 said

Well, if ever there was a post to respond to, this one seems like it.  I pop in CW everyday and their Deals Section is good, but Linked Musicians sets the bar in terms of hunting up the deals.  Bottom line: much appreciation and thanks to Peter for what he does.

Thanks.

I didn’t plan on handling deals when I started this site, my focus was to build out the site and focus more on content that educates and encourages people to play and produce music based on my own experience of giving up playing due to tendinitis pain and trying to play again after 20+ years after I was showing my son to play piano and realizing that I could play simple songs — like The Beatles and Coldplay. I thought that friend’s encouragement was an amazing thing and I thought, wouldn’t it be great if there were a community that didn’t have the toxicity so common at forums and social media where there was more encouragement focused on our mutual love of music.

I wanted to create a place that was very welcoming to everyone, where toxicity wasn’t tolerated. Where people could feel free to express positive and negative opinions of the products and services they use without being beaten into conformity, or where, like CW occasionally has with some of the regulars, people who make racist or bigoted posts are quickly made aware that behavior is not acceptable and either cease that activity or are no longer permitted to be part of this community. I’ll share that the foundation I had in mind for LM is based upon is “love one another.” I realize that’s a high bar, but that’s the bar I had/have in mind. To date, we’ve really only had several violations, which is surprisingly low when you consider that it’s been more than a year since we first launched our beta test group (Early Adopters) and it’s been several months since we opened to the public.

I thank you for being a part of it, @jude77.

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