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Professor Snuggles:
Oh come on guys I've been waiting to post that image forever and no comments? Shit you.

fatty:
I did not mind the blog thread. It is good to have a place to dump such discussions. But I did feel it was a bit singular. It was the be all and end all of bloggy threads. I've seen forums with such threads as 'bad day thread', 'things that made you smile today', which provides more variety of threads to be maintained.

I would propose a 'bad day thread' as one way for people to be a bit bloggy and a bit sympathetic of each other - for example.

I also retract my previous comment that news should be part of the discussion thread. This forum could easily be populated with threads about current affairs, interesting news and such. I see no reason for this forum to be a lot more engaging if some good thread making was encouraged.

Inlander:

--- Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 21 Jan 2009, 00:04 ---Oh come on guys I've been waiting to post that image forever and no comments? Shit you.

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I'm still trying to figure out if the pot is meant to be you or Jens.

Sox:

--- Quote from: jimbunny on 20 Jan 2009, 23:14 ---I might suggest the following rule: one album per post, or one album per artist per poster per page. That is to say, one person can post one album by a particular artist per page. This cuts down on the "dump" aspect of the thread, as well as encourages posters to say more about what they are contributing. Forbidding the use of allmusic reviews might be going too far, but I feel like when someone talks about an album in their own words, it encourages more discussion than when they don't.

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That is brilliant.

KvP:
For the record, I think a blog subforum, at least as I understand the concept, would be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. The whole point of the blog thread was that it was singular. I posted in it because it wasn't the "KvP's thoughts and feelings" thread. If I had to choose between making a thread about shit that happened to me and not posting it at all I'd choose not posting it at all, every time. And not just because of the new thread stigma (although that is a large thing that was easily avoided by posting in the monolithic thread I don't think forcing people into such an either/or position to beat that apprehension out of the forums will work at all.) but because, unlike an actual blog / journal / whatever, the blog thread didn't serve a simple declarative function.

The last posts I made in the blog thread before it was locked outlined a situation that I was in that I was not taking well, but I didn't post it just so that people would read it. I got several thoughtful responses and opinions, in the thread and in PM, that made me look at the situation in an entirely different light, and saved me a whole lot of anguish and energy. I don't doubt that there are people who would post just to post, and I'm guilty of throwing noise out just as much as anyone, but the thread provided useful engagement many, many times for many, many people. That the blog thread was singular meant that you were less self-conscious going into it, which, along with the bad things that entailed, made it easier for people to be honest, and made it easier for them to benefit from sharing.

I suspect most people are like me, and are averse to making small threads in which their concerns dominate the discussion. So people's concerns will go undisclosed. And for the stoics of the board that's fantastic, but for some people you either post on the internet or you internalize your shit, which is very bad for you, and those people ought to be allowed to decompress. I think whatever frustration that might cause is worth it. You know what you get when you enter the thread.

The splintering idea, of making a blog thread for your good days and your bad days, could turn out well, I've seen it work before, but you run the same risk you do splitting up the mediaf!re thread - the saddoes all get funneled into one thread, and the happy people congregate in another thread, and the benefits of both threads are diminished.

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