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El Opium:
Don't try to fight the inevitable. If things get out truly out of hand that what mods are for.

saturnine1979:
critique is the same no matter what art form you're talking about. as an artist, i'm quite familiar with having my work both completely destroyed and lavishly praised by my peers and teachers, but it never gets to me. i've known people who don't know how to handle criticism, both in giving in and recieving it, and they end up hurting feelings and getting their own feelings hurt.

the important thing is to be objective and put aside your personal feelings. they may drive you to create and they may guide your interest, but they don't have much place when critically examining a work.

KharBevNor:
I wouldn't be elitist if you all wouldn't listen to such poo!

I mean, really people!

yipjumpmusic:
I say it is okay to have elitist musical taste if you are still open to hearing something before rejecting it and if you don't hold out the "good music" from the so called undeserving, but when you start speaking it out at people you start getting hazy in legitimacy.  (though I think I may have a different definition of elitism) Sure you can try and stay to constructive criticism of why other music is worse or how something else is written more intelligently or with more talent but sometimes the simplest and stupidest music hits certain people the way they need or maybe the only way they can be affected by music.  Some of it is maturity, intelligence and personality which in my stupid theory helps make up what someone will be more prone to like.  So elitists should not make people feel bad about liking music that might be contrived or cliche and so on when it may be the only music those people can ever enjoy.  Hmm I feel like I am still being elitist but I'll add that there are certain genres I mostly do not enjoy much but respect if it is good music.  Also though I would never go out of my way to say such and such band sucks (unless maybe i had a really bad day and slipped) but if someone asked my honest opinion of a band I think is crap they would get what they asked for...but yes, I do shake my head at the stereotypical elitist.

Praeserpium Machinarum:
I am a tad snobbish sometimes, but I am not an elitist, I wouldn't admit that I have enjoyed Aqua immensely when I was younger if I were. My little brother calls me a hipster all the time, but that's just namecalling and due to the fact that I wrote off Korn as Nu-metal(not to say my brother has bad taste, he shares most of the same tastes as me except for some punk stuff and Korn)
My point is that I don't think elitism is a problem here and that we are far better off than some other forums. Most of it is light-hearted poking, what I have seen anyway...

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