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Which individuals on here are the trolls, so I'll know who to stay away from?

When trying to get advice, how do I reach more guys in their 20s who like a wide variety of pop and soft rock music, play keyboard, but aren't active musicians already playing in a band?

When I do have an issue with someone on this board and he is being difficult, how do I get him to move on?

We're ALL trolls!!

You're persistent here, but you need to be persistent WHERE you want to find people - as I've said previously, there aren't tons of people from your town here. Bandmix is mostly used by other musicians who want to find others to play OUT with. These people set up profiles with their information - samples of their music, descriptions of what they are looking for, what equipment they have, etc.
You're being extremely picky about type of music, age of players, and now even where in your city they are. You might as well go sit on your front steps, play your instrument with a sign saying 'want to be my friend?'

Which individuals on here are the trolls, so I'll know who to stay away from?

When trying to get advice, how do I reach more guys in their 20s who like a wide variety of pop and soft rock music, play keyboard, but aren't active musicians already playing in a band?

When I do have an issue with someone on this board and he is being difficult, how do I get him to move on?

You're acting like a twelve year old... If you want a "partner". go to Match dot com. Seriously, you're just wasting everybody's time here. This is a musicians forum...not a fairy and tart tea meeting. Nobody here cares what you think about trolls... (If you don't like what I am saying, please feel free to press the ignore button...That's how you can deal with trolls... And No were not going away.)

I'm a troll and you are a crybaby. (hi, nice to meet ya)

They'll eat you alive and suck the marrow from your little chicken bones, you mini pansy from East Shuckashoe.

If you cry this much over so little, you have a big surprise coming outside in the big bad world, jr.
I may be the antithesis of you, but being soft doesn't get you anywhere at all.

Toughen up, now or at some point you will wish you did.

Turn some of your grief into music else you are a total loss and you're crying for no reason worthy of tears..

Guys. Easy! Realize that I would be doing a lot of the things you guys say, if I could talk to a lot more easygoing individuals on here who could help me learn about some more appropriate music message boards in my area.

The ones I was already persistent on Baton Rouge Rocks and Craigslist, were frequented by the same types of guys on this forum. And my responses ended up upsetting a lot of people, and the ones who were interested were much older than me and a lot of them were already comitted to other projects. And on Craigslist, starting around 2009, I started reaching people who saw my post as a joke, rather than as serious. And that's when I started posting on a few discussion boards. There were times on Craigslist when I tried the "Strictly platonic" section, but that didn't work very well either. That ended up making things worse, and I eventually was banned from Craigslist in early 2011, and then eventually Baton Rouge Rocks.

"If you want a "partner". go to Match dot com."

I would much rather use a free site, in other words, one where I don't have to pay to contact people, and use the forums. OKCupid was such a site, but that site was a dud from the start. They didn't have ANY forums to use, there wasn't anyway to filter who can see my profile, and of course, there weren't enough handsome, attractive guys on there who were solid keyboard players and who LOVED playing a wide mix of pop and soft rock music. The ones who did play music were either into classical, or alternative rock or were less skilled musicians.

I'm looking for a GUY friend around my age who plays keyboard and likes playing pop and soft rock music, and may also have some skills of his own to work on, but at the same time is a little more advanced than me and who I can learn some new skills from like songwriting, and using a computer to create and record music.

Try
http://20somethinggaymusicianswholikega ... riends.com
awhhh crap i think they shut the site down.

Don't waste space on the internet making up something stupid. I'm trying to reach individuals who are much smarter than the current people who are respondiong, who are obviously just trying to get a reaction out of me. The post above is EXACTLY how a lot of people on Baton Rouge Rocks reacted when they responded to my posts. Instead of trying to understand my personal preferences and trying to clear up any confusion, they would just throw anything out there and just expect me to try it.

The site I'm looking for may not be labeled as a pop and soft rock music message board, and may not be searchable in the databases of most major search engines. It might be a private board, or the board might be part of a larger site or larger network.

You got banned from CL??!!
And now you're getting 'trolled' here. Did you ever think that maybe it isn't WHERE you are posting, or WHAT you are posting - it's YOU?

"He needs a gag and a dildo" lol

The gag is for his mouth.

We're bored over here, made a dart board from your avatar and we're playing "baseball" with the darts.

Gene is up 5 to 2 in the bottom of the 5th.

(I can win yet, I just need to summon my dart prowess by channeling the spirit of Coors.) lol

*buurp*

You got banned from CL??!!
And now you're getting 'trolled' here. Did you ever think that maybe it isn't WHERE you are posting, or WHAT you are posting - it's YOU?

Damn it! Not you guys too. The problem is that the people I'm reaching are NOT listening to me and not making good decisions when they post.

When I was posting on Craigslist, my request was starting to get flagged a lot in late 2009-2011, and all because I was a little bit more thorough and detailed in my ad, and all because of how the system worked when posting ads. There was no way to set it up so that the ad didn't appear at the top of the listings when re-posting the same ad again.

And another thing I hated about Craigslist is that my readers weren't OPEN and nice enough to tell me if there was something in the ad that might've sounded offensive or missundertood.

You cannot whine and cry until we decide to do what you want us to do.

"It'll be a long wait". lol

You cannot whine and cry until we decide to do what you want us to do.

"It'll be a long wait". lol

Sir, give someone else a chance. You three are making things harder for me. And also I'm not forcing you guys to do anything you don't want to do. Also I am NOT whining. I'm telling you guys where I've been having problems in the past, and how to figure out WHY I'm reaching "people" instead of individuals who are much smarter, and are paying more attention to what they are responding to.

As I stated earlier, I was originally persistent in my area, but the boards I had access to weren't appropriate, and I was pretty much trolled from the start on Baton Rouge Rocks. The people that were interested ended up not having the right passion or the right skill set. Even posting ads in person ended up being a bust, and STILL attracted people who were into the wrong genre and were already a little too serious about pursuing a career in music and becoming famous.

Come on guys back up... you three are making things harder for him!

Come on guys back up... you three are making things harder for him!

You are as well.

Let me see someone different. Someone with a much better attitude than the ones who have been currently responding. I've been dealing with people like you guys since I started this search back around 2007 (both online AND in person). By that, I mean people who see me as some kind of joke or find a reason to pick on me because I deviate from the norm.

One thing that couldv'e improved my search in person wouldv'e been being able to set up a table so that I couldv'e taken the time to get to know my audience instead of posting an ad on a bulletin board or on a table and going back home and waiting for someone to respond, only to reach someone with mediocre talent or someone who was more into heavy metal rather than good pop and soft rock music.

You know that funny creepy feeling that comes about when you discover that that the person you are blogging with is in a lock-down , somewhere, in a place where the general public usually doesn't visit or drive by...

I'm getting that feeling LOL