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I pretty much only read 3 threads on this forum
Professor Snuggles:
Man, having a general upload thread is not bad, but to bring up the example that we don't like, look at hipinion. They have a leak thread, for new albums as they come out, but other than that it's just general genre based threads for types of music people might be into. I'm sure there is a ton of stuff I would like to hear in the mediafire thread, but I'm not gonna see it because I don't want to slog through page after page of megaposts to find an occasional album I like. Dividing it up into non stickied genre threads would be a much better way to go, that way people can post what they like, flow on the forum increases as new threads are made specifically to talk about certain bands/genres, and we don't have that cumbersome, useless giant taking up space.
Also, I should be a mod again.
Also, all the hitting on each other stuff has got to stop, I agree with Eris. I don't even have fun doing it anymore, and hitting on girls on the internet used to be like, my favorite thing! This sucks, guys! You are taking away my joy!
Eris:
I mean, I don't post much any more, but sitting here all day just reading the same stuff gets a bit boring and repetitive and makes me think that maybe we are going in different directions and should try taking a break.
I'm sorry forum; it's not you, it's me. Ok, maybe you're a bit to blame as well. Shit, don't cry. I'm sorry, really, look let's just talk and try and work out what we're doing wrong and maybe give it a second chance? I don't want to keep visiting your mother every second weekend, though. She hates me, I swear.
edit Yeah, the problem I have with the mediafire thread is that there is so much stuff that I always seem to just see it all as stoner rock or similar, so I just skim over it all. If it was separated into genres it would be easier to navigate, I think.
Gilead:
Forcing myself to listen to their album multiple times is how I realised The Modern Lovers are actually one of the best bands ever created. Straight talkin'.
michaelicious:
That's probably one of the smartest decisions you've ever made.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Eris on 20 Jan 2009, 18:05 ---I think the page locking number was 15 pages? I remember it being something like that and people used to always complain that the threads would be closed in the middle of discussions. The Blog thread is really huge, though, and I think people will post in there or the pointless thread instead of starting new threads. And when people do they are told they should go there instead. So people just stick to those threads and we end up talking about stuff in there and if people don't go into those threads then they miss out (I don't think that's quite the term I want, but I can't think of what I mean
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This right here is exactly my stance on those threads and I have been saying it for months in Gabbly to much disagreement. People don't post anything new or interesting in new threads anymore. If something interesting happens, it goes in the Pointless Thread or the Blog Thread and as someone who, no offense, could give two shits about the personal lives of most people who post here, reading through the entire three or four pages of blog thread movement in any given weekend is just too much of a chore to be bothered with for me and many others. I constantly get sick of the back and forth commiserating that happens in there most of the time, but skipping it entirely results in a lot of missed info. I honestly think we'd be better off if we just took a month off from blogging, accepted the fact that there are maybe going to be two or three people at any given time that give a flying fuck what's going on with the majority of people posting in there and got on with our lives. I get the impression that the majority of people here will only actually venture into that pit when they have something to personally blog about and will maybe check the post or two above them before doing so.
Being less pissy about new threads would help this. While I'm all for bitching about shitty execution of new threads, we've had some real winners in concept (I'm looking at you Weird Relationship Thread, although you've long since run your course) and some things that have been brought up in the Pointless Thread that have gone unnoticed.
Personally, I think the fifteen page rule should be brought back and noted in the rules. It's hard to bitch rationally about your conversation being interrupted mid-flow when you know when it's going have to end.
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