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Great work, Jason!

Way to go, Jason!

Um, this is kind of awkward. It's the day after Jason angrily left the site and vowed never to return... and he has the top track on the charts. Man, fate is really funny thing! Well, funny and tragic at the same time.

Jason Stanley was harassed until he left this site. Maybe don't make your web app social if you can't be bothered to moderate the comments just a little bit?

@Matthew Cohen: I wasn't making fun of Jason. I was there and saw the whole thing. Jason was harassed mercilessly by a troll, but only after he provoked the troll by sending about 7 or 8 unreplied messages in a row and started a flame war.
Jason was a great guy who was always positive and helpful to other Soundgym members, but on this occasion he let his anger overcome him and did it all wrong. He let his anger get out of control with *Scott 'Em* (a garden-variety idiot troll, incredibly annoying but basically harmless until he started the rape threats...) but then Jason redirected that strong anger towards the site admins when they were only a small part of the overall problem. Changing his profile picture to say 'SoundGym isn't worth paying for' just because the site admins wouldn't fix a problem that he started? Not good. All he needed to do was ignore the troll...
The venom that Jason displayed towards Soundgym was over-the-top and so it looks like his account has been removed pretty quickly.
It's a shame because I'll miss his positive attitude and love for music and this community.
And it is tragic and funny that he now has the top song on the charts. That's how we should remember him.

That wasn't directed at you, Dylan. Definitely didn't think you were making fun of him. I agree with you that Jason probably could have handled the troll better. But I also think he was correct that it was the admin's responsibility to take care of things more swiftly. I'm not generally in favor of heavy handed comment moderation, but that is definitely not what Jason was asking for. 'Don't let users threaten each other with rape over and over again' seems like a pretty low bar to clear.

There is nothing about Soundgym (or most web apps) that requires a social component. We're all just learning to hear frequencies and dynamics better. If you are going to introduce a social component to your website, then you need to do some very minimal moderation. If you can't be bothered to do that, you shouldn't enable comments.

Well, this didn’t age well. Very unfortunate situation indeed.

Thanks for posting that, @Romano G.

I think that this screenshot is perfect, for the following reasons:

1. It's the perfect ''obituary'' for Jason's involvement with SG. It shows just how much he loved the community and saw the value of everything here.

2. It teaches us the lesson that overly strong emotions and taking problems too seriously can be fatal to something you love. It hammers home the fact that sometimes letting things go is much smarter than trying to protect/save the world but destroying what you love in the process. That is the perfect lesson for the entire world, especially in the 2020s.

3. It teaches us to remember about balance and perspective. This community is excellent 99.9% of the time. Why let 0.1% ruin your opinion of something when it's an unavoidable part of the system (as much as I hate to admit it, there will always be trolls on social websites and moderation is a minefield of an answer) and it's such a tiny, insignificant part of the whole system anyway?

Sending best wishes to you all. And I hope no-one screenshots this message, particularly not SoundGym... ha!

@Dylan Neal Well stated.