Re: [Harp-L] REtirement from Videos and Posts

[Kevin Hamilton <kham27@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have learned to thicken my skin over the years and I can't even imagine
being a politician. While they make the decision to put themselves out
there and they can expect a storm of people telling them how much they
suck, it doesn't make it easy.

As far as people with crappy personal lives who post negative comments
because their personal lives suck, who needs em!

I too appreciate all your input and I am surprised at how much you offer
when I think about the business side of things.

I would hope you would both keep on posting and let it slide, as hard as
that is sometimes, when the negative humans misdirect their own
frustrations with themselves and their lives on you.

Your both wonderful human beings. But please, spend time taking a bite out
of life outside the confines of tech videos and online forums. I too find
myself being too much of a harmonica nerd!

All the best!

Kevin

On 9 January 2013 16:13, David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Matt, I've been doing that for years and largely get a similar response
> what you're talking about - although that doesn't bother me at all.
> Sometimes there's a thanks, usually not, but that doesn't bother me. I
> never expected thanks. What does bother me is that there is usually more
> negative than positive. When I started making harmonica tech videos, there
> was only one harp tech video on Youtube and it was in Portugese. Nothing
> whatsoever in the  English language.
> One of the first videos I ever did was how to disassemble a nailed
> harmonica 1/3 of the people who clicked whether they liked it or not
> clicked "dislike."  At that time, I may have still had the only harp tech
> videos on Youtube in the English language. And 1/3 of them clicked dislike,
> on what was probably one of two harp tech videos in the English language
> you could watch for free (the other one was also mine). Then, you have all
> these extremely negative comments from people you don't know and people who
> have never made a contribution to anything in their lives, most of these
> comments you have to delete. The one that pissed me off the most was "your
> daughter looks like she's really stupid." She was six years old at the
> time. Six years old! When you have several videos that top 10,000 views, I
> had one that was well over 50k, that stuff just pours, I mean pours in and
> I don't care who you are, it bothers you.
> You try to put something out there and there is so much pointless
> negativity and that's precisely why I deleted about 150 videos. Some of
> them I just couldn't bring myself to delete entirely and I kept them like
> you'd keep pictures in a photo album. I disappeared from all forums for
> about two years. I just didn't tell anybody, I just did it. Nobody noticed
> and that's a good thing, because it's a sign that the community is strong
> enough to carry on without any one person and that's what really matters.
> Somebody said on MBH recently they had always thought of me as prickly. I
> realized after he said it, that he was probably correct. Maybe if
> I'd retired from videos and posts as early as you are doing it, I wouldn't
> have turned into somebody who came across as  such a prick. I certainly
> never meant to come across that way and I don't feel that way deep down,
> but when you've been out there for a while, it gets to you. I should never
> have made any of them and I think you're making a good decision.
> Jason deals with about 50 million times worse than any of us. It's a
> wonder he summons the fortitude to do anything and I respect him very much
> for that. Not many people can steel themselves against stuff like he does.
> I can't.
>
> There is simply no point in doing videos. Enjoy your retirement.
>
> David Payne
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Matthew Smart <matthewsmart@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Harp-L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:59 AM
> Subject: [Harp-L] REtirement from Videos and Posts
>
> I found myself getting resentful last night because I answered several
> questions in the last few days on this forum and posted 5 free videos and
> only one person thanked me. But I realize that it is my own personal
> expectations and I have no reason to feel that way. Many of the items I
> share are linked to things that I sell (which may annoy you), but the truth
> is that the profit margin on tools is crap and I do it more because I spent
> 10 years in my mancave figuring this stuff out and I want to share it. You
> can watch most of them and not buy anything from me and still find them
> helpful.
>
> I have decided to retire from making videos and postingon this forum
> anymore because it is not worth my time. I can't remember the last time a
> member of the opposite sex crossed the threshold of apartment and so I'm
> going to focus more on living a good life instead of making geeky videos
> and answering harp tech questions.
>
> Here are the last new videos I made, which include reed gapping and
> embossing. 7 vids total. No purchase required. My gift to you.
>
> http://www.hetrickharmonica.com/harmonicashimstock_p/shimstock.htm
>
> http://www.hetrickharmonica.com/harmonicalightbox_p/lightbox.htm
>
> http://www.hetrickharmonica.com/HarmonicaReedGappingTool_p/brasstl.htm
>
> Regards and thank you to the few people that watched my videos or read my
> posts.
>
> M
>
> -- hetrickharmonica@xxxxxx
> http://www.hetrickharmonica.com/
>
> Thank you for choosing Hetrick
>