RIP performers.net

[gav]

Looks like this place has finally died.

[Lee Nelson]

It is certainly looking that way. I can trace the moment back to when the South Western US performers got involved. They seem to lack a certain understanding of international performance and only seem to speak redneck. Its hard to contribute at the moment.

[Peter]

Looks that way to me too. All I've see is some guy bitching because he pissed off some other performers and the shut him up, now he's crying about it. I notified Jim and asked him to ban the silly shmuck but nothing. So it seems you're right, P net has imitated a frog and croaked. Sorry to see it go

[Jim]

So... should I just delete everything? Are you guys done here?

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

Holding out hope.

I believe there is something here of value still. I don't want to cross my arms and dig in my heels and scream "noooooo" or anything, but, "NOOOOO!"

[Jim]

Peter, I can't ban someone for being a schmuck. If you don't like what someone is posting, don't read it and don't respond to it. That's the first rule of troll management.

As for the rest of the site, I have no control over the traffic here. I've been hosting the site since 1996 but there was never any business model and never any plan or expectations. I basically rented a warehouse and told the performing community to come hang out and shoot the shit. It was busy for a long time, but now people have other places to go to shoot the shit.

So, yeah. I'm honestly not sure what to do. Not too many performers come by these days... and I'm still paying the rent.

[Jim]

(It's not about the money. I was just continuing the metaphor.)

[Gregory Rush]

(It's not about the money. I was just continuing the metaphor.)

Keep it up, I personally know many who come here.
They may not post but it is a compilation of information,
culture, people, that would be sad if it did not stay....forever

It has been for a long time a great place to just read.
Butterfly man last message to me is priceless , I don't even
want to lose that. If anyone is un happy here they can just leave
and come back later, I always find something new here.

Cmon who we kidding, this place is the only place like it around!
I will for one would like a years notice !!! We keep getting new members
some of them I know in real life and never knew they were here. I found
many long lost friends here, and made new ones that are now lifetime friends.
Everytime I come on therf are people viewing the various topic.

Sure it gets quiet at times, that is cuz people are utilizing the information they got from here!!!! YOu know it Jim!

THnx again and thnx ahead of time.

[Gregory Rush]

VIewing

1 is viewing who is who.
1 is viewing Specific Pitches.

Look that's tow people lives you are gonna RUIN if you drop the board !!! LOL
Sure we have many places. like I log on FB and everyone one of my reatlives is like, well...its not quiet and no inforatmion.
Do not let anyone kid you on sociability sure we got phones other sites
BUT
For perorming infoamtion, tactics. places. manners etc Ther eis nothing
like it is here straight from performers and if you look at each year as
a whole. It is making itself very very useflauil.

Awesome Board Jim
Keep it up!
PS never let one or tow people bring down a monument to your lifestyle

[Gregory Rush]

Peter, I can't ban someone for being a schmuck. If you don't like what someone is posting, don't read it and don't respond to it. That's the first rule of troll management.

As for the rest of the site, I have no control over the traffic here. I've been hosting the site since 1996 but there was never any business model and never any plan or expectations. I basically rented a warehouse and told the performing community to come hang out and shoot the shit. It was busy for a long time, but now people have other places to go to shoot the shit.

So, yeah. I'm honestly not sure what to do. Not too many performers come by these days... and I'm still paying the rent.

I think if you ban the schmucks, they can no longer reproduce....
Schmuck or shmuck in American English is a pejorative meaning one who is stupid or foolish; or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person. The word entered English from Yiddish, where it has similar pejorative meanings, but its original meaning in Yiddish is penis.[1][2] Because of its vulgarity,[3] the word is euphemized as schmoe, which was the source of Al Capp's cartoon strip creature the shmoo.[4] Variants include schmo and shmo.

In Jewish homes, the word was "regarded as so vulgar as to be taboo."[5] Lenny Bruce, a Jewish standup comedian, wrote that the use of the word during his performances in 1962 led to his arrest on the West Coast "by a Yiddish undercover agent who had been placed in the club several nights running to determine if [his] use of Yiddish terms was a cover for profanity."[6]

Etymology [edit]

The German word Schmuck means "jewelry, adornments";[7] the equivalent in Yiddish is schmock or shmock.[3] In German the pejorative "schmuck" would be Schmock, closer to the original Yiddish word. The transition of the word from meaning "jewel" to meaning "penis" is related to the description of a man's genitals as "the family jewels."[8]

The Online Etymology Dictionary derives it from Eastern Yiddish shmok, literally "penis," from Old Polish smok, "grass snake, dragon,"[9] but Leo Rosten cites Dr. Shlomo Noble of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research as saying that shmok derives from shmuck and not the other way around.


I mean just look how confusing it would be!!!!!

[Gregory Rush]

To anyone who wants board shut down

That is very selfish.
Just leave.

Happy trails for everyone else. Can't ride a bike,
walk somewhere else but stop throwing stuff
at people on the trail still.

Thnx

[Gregory Rush]

I believe there is something here of value still. I don't want to cross my arms and dig in my heels and scream "noooooo" or anything, but, "NOOOOO!"

I am sure if all the members knew such an absurd post or
suggestion was made the would post overwhelmimgly in support.
Also I for one would pick up any work or tab that needs help,
I am not busy for the next few months..

[Peter]

Peter, I can't ban someone for being a schmuck. If you don't like what someone is posting, don't read it and don't respond to it. That's the first rule of troll management.

As for the rest of the site, I have no control over the traffic here. I've been hosting the site since 1996 but there was never any business model and never any plan or expectations. I basically rented a warehouse and told the performing community to come hang out and shoot the shit. It was busy for a long time, but now people have other places to go to shoot the shit.

So, yeah. I'm honestly not sure what to do. Not too many performers come by these days... and I'm still paying the rent.

Thanks for responding Jim. I understand. Glad to see it is still here.

[Godfrey Daniels]

Long as You're Living...

Hey Jim! Just happened to pop in today and see this. Keep the site up please if you can afford to do so!! I find it a unique and essential resource and it would suck if you killed it...

I've been committed to street performance since the '80's - however, many generations of performer have come and gone since then - the rules, economics, styles have changed. I think a lot of new people don't know this site exists. I think the site needs to promote itself. Do you have a Facebook version that can cross-fertilize?

Or, if this site didn't exist - where are the other forums to migrate to?

[gav]

Some times declaring something dead can breath new life into it.
Well, maybe just this time.

Let's just try to keep it free of all the troll ping pong that's been going on lately.
We don't need to here 20 times about peoples personal problems and other peoples objections to them.

I actually like(ed) the site, but not much of interest is posted these days, everyone has shifted to social media sites. Except me , I prefer pnet to facebook.