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Should this forum be kept alive ?
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Yes - 93.8%
5
No - 5.2%
1
No opinion - 1.0%

 
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CreoleJazz
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  		   Posted 12/23/2016 8:54 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I voted yes. Of course. Why wouldn't they keep this forum? It's been here for years. I've used Finale since the early 90s but I'll often go many months between times that I use it. I am always returning here for expert help as I "relearn" Finale again and again. LOL

I did notice, recently, that there is another, newer forum available, but I pretty much ignored it and just came here --- a familiar place I know is helpful.

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  		   Posted 12/20/2016 1:07 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Somehow this topic reminds me of the futility of lobbying the Electoral College.

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  		   Posted 12/20/2016 12:51 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Add to that the Mac Poll :
60 Yes, 2 No

TOTAL (PC + Mac) on Dec. 20 :
Yes : 145
No : 7

Including the "oops" votes which could not be cancelled.

Michel
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  		   Posted 12/20/2016 12:46 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
85 "yes", 5 "no" as of now.

As a percentage of those who actually read the forum at all, how large is this sample?

Brian

PS: 86 to 4 if only Dan had hit the right button!

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  		   Posted 12/20/2016 12:43 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
IDIOT... I clicked too fast and hit "No." Sorry guys, I'm one of those. I can't figure out how to undo it.

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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 3:00 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ralph,
You're assuming they actually READ the forum...


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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 2:58 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
bpalm said...
N. Grossingink said...
bpalm said...
Writer of Music said...
Would the person who voted 'no' care to elaborate? It is the only vote against the current forum recorded and a voice not yet heard. Don't you think that your (valid) arguments should be heard as well?


Which one?


Well, both - now that there are 2. Frankly, speaking for myself, I don't care about these trolls.

N.


There are 3 it says.


We can use SWAG here and assume those three are:

1.) Adam Wig
Director, Customer Success

2.) Michael Johnson
Vice President, Professional Notation


3.) Fred Flowerday,
Senior Vice President, Product Strategy

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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 2:56 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Maybe the three are Adam Wig, Michael Johnson, and Fred Flowerday. :-)

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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 2:30 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
N. Grossingink said...
bpalm said...
Writer of Music said...
Would the person who voted 'no' care to elaborate? It is the only vote against the current forum recorded and a voice not yet heard. Don't you think that your (valid) arguments should be heard as well?


Which one?


Well, both - now that there are 2. Frankly, speaking for myself, I don't care about these trolls.

N.


There are 3 it says.
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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 2:24 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 1:50 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
bpalm said...
Writer of Music said...
Would the person who voted 'no' care to elaborate? It is the only vote against the current forum recorded and a voice not yet heard. Don't you think that your (valid) arguments should be heard as well?


Which one?


Well, both - now that there are 2. Frankly, speaking for myself, I don't care about these trolls.

N.

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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 12:44 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Another reason we need this forum: I would have had no idea that there was a new version of Finale available if I had not read about it on this forum. The automatic "check for new version" function failed to detect it. Nowhere else where I regularly go on the net would have given me this information.

BTW, the upgrade went flawlessly.

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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 12:30 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Writer of Music said...
Would the person who voted 'no' care to elaborate? It is the only vote against the current forum recorded and a voice not yet heard. Don't you think that your (valid) arguments should be heard as well?


Which one?
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  		   Posted 12/8/2016 7:49 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Situation on December 8, 2016. The numbers speak for themselves :

Should this forum be kept alive ?
PC poll :
Yes : 75 (96,2%)
No : 3 (3,8 %)

Mac poll :
Yes : 54 (96,4%)
No : 2 (3,6%)

TOTALS :
Yes : 129 (96,3%)
No : 5 (3,7%)

(N.B. : many comments to support the Yes, not 1 supporting the No)

MakeMusic, do you get the message ?

Michel
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Post Edited (michelp) : 12/8/2016 8:30:27 AM (GMT-6)

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  		   Posted 12/5/2016 12:28 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Seems to be that the tech support department has a vested interest in keeping this forum operational. With the limited options available (non-functional official site, finaleforum.com and the Facebook group), they're going to get a very increased volume of issues that used to be handled here.
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  		   Posted 12/5/2016 11:38 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Two votes for 'no' on the Windows side, one on the Mac side. But none of these 'no' voters seems to care to add anything at all in any of the discussions on the closing of the forum. In my view that qualifies these 'no' votes as nothing but trolling. The 'no' voters have yet to prove me wrong.

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Richard Ashmore
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  		   Posted 12/5/2016 3:21 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
YES!

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Richard N.
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  		   Posted 12/5/2016 3:01 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes!

Richard


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  		   Posted 12/4/2016 11:13 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Absolutely YES!

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  		   Posted 12/4/2016 10:32 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Michel R. E. said...
nice thing about this... if anyone votes "no" we'll have proof that MakeMusic employees actually do monitor this forum!
:-)

Who knows...!

Michel
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  		   Posted 12/4/2016 8:55 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Would the person who voted 'no' care to elaborate? It is the only vote against the current forum recorded and a voice not yet heard. Don't you think that your (valid) arguments should be heard as well?

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  		   Posted 12/4/2016 12:49 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes! I vote to keep the forum alive.
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  		   Posted 12/3/2016 9:28 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
As mentioned on the Mac side, these forums are more than a place for information exchange. They are a community. I've been checking them almost daily ever since I first learned of them. They contain not only technical support, but humor, information, and surprises. They let members' personalities come through. Members are as responsive to simple requests as they are to highly esoteric and specialized needs. For years these forums have consistently been an element of the partnership that occurs between MakeMusic and its users. MakeMusic's policy of letting members comment without imposing any censorship as long as civility and courtesy is maintained has also helped foster the unique qualities of these forums. To pick out just one example, years ago, there were many upset comments that MakeMusic was abandoning the Mac platform (proved untrue in the course of time--and that was before the major Mac turnaround).

Losing these forums have consequences that are much greater than would seem as the result of a limited decision about relocating technical help, not only because of the limitations of the replacement as discussed in many other entries, but also because these forums have grown into something much richer and more complex than just assistance forums.

So, I also ask MakeMusic to reconsider and continue these forums.

Graeme


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  		   Posted 12/3/2016 5:03 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes. I check this forum every day.

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  		   Posted 12/3/2016 4:48 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I hope you folks are voting in the poll and not just responding with a "YES".

It should be kept alive until it is replaced with something at least as good, preferably better, where the archive of all this great information can be transferred.  The new forum is not a viable candidate.

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