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On Blacque Jacque Shellacque said

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If you guys are interested, on the non-public part of the site, I’ll share the horror story of what led to me finally closing the forum and OPEN MIC and candidly, it may mean that I won’t be posting anymore beyond the blog and keeping up the lists.

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I just hope that it is not that THEY won! 🙁

They haven’t won; in fact, we’ve won by having LinkedMusicians as a thriving, independent, ethical space with zero tolerance for bigotry. I remain committed to this community, though I’ve stepped back from the grind of the non-stop deal posting to address some necessary updates and ensure the site remains manageable for the long term.

The shift to using my real name pulled back the curtain on why these efforts are so important. Once my identity was linked to my history at the forum we grew out of, I discovered over a decade of pathological, defamatory trolling across various platforms. I can’t deny that it was jarring, and I needed some time to process the sheer extent of it.

This was entirely retaliatory—the result of me reporting these individuals for bigoted posts years ago. The validity of those reports was confirmed by the fact that every single bigoted or racist post I flagged was ultimately removed by the forum’s moderators.

I have no idea who these anonymous individuals are in real life and they don’t know me; my only connection to them has been through the administrative act of reporting their conduct or choosing not to do so anonymously. At the time, I wanted the people being targeted to know they had an advocate and a safe environment; it was about the integrity of the community, not the individuals making the posts.

It’s a bizarre experience to see an anonymous ‘alternate reality’ created about you that stands in such total opposition to your actual professional record and life’s work. If anything, it’s a sobering reminder of why the ethics and the bigotry-free environment we’ve established here at LinkedMusicians are so vital.

I spent some time writing this and providing more detail behind what occurred and why the values of this place are so important to me. I could easily write another chapter on the musical connections, but I thought, I’d address this one aspect at a very deep level:

Transparency, Integrity, and the “Why” Behind LinkedMusicians

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