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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
I understand Big3's sentiment but the time it takes to expound upon a subject is usually enough to dissuade people from posting in the first place. The superfluity of short posts only really gets to be a problem in threads like Albums You're Digging where people are supposed to offer a brief description of whatever album they're touting.
The point is those people who are forced to post with some intrinsic thought process are the same ones who won't spend the fifteen seconds required to do so. In their minds there is virtually no motive to explain why they like a band, the mere fact that they do is sufficient enough.
There's just no simple way to promote intelligent discussion.
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This.
That and when you add a time element to it, it seems even more disgusting that they can't take a quarter of a second to say anything.
Someone here made the point that we might as well abolish the Metal forum since there isn't enough people to uphold what its posters would need, and then they leave. I don't think we should get rid of it, but I do think theres a valid point there.
Add up all the one-liner posts in any controversial act and I bet they out number the 15 seconds+ posts.
And again. It kills debate. Generally people feed off of the last comment there, I can't know for sure, but nothing else explains it. If they look at the last quote and are trying to gauge whether or not to go back and read more, then we should want to have that final post be something more than "I liked them before they sold out."
I look at old posts from MB's begining and thier all like that. Its terrible.