Zarko

I will pretty much echo sentiments provided already, but in my opinions, most of the times forums based on music, movies etc, tend to struggle a bit more because it isn't what I would really call an 'active' discussion topic, music less-so than movies. This is in comparison to sporting forums, for example, where an active season heats universal discussion. Lets be honest, music is a pretty polarising topic to post about, and naturally having such a varied base of opinions means it's more difficult to discuss. You can't really analyse music like you can sports results or whatnot for discussion, and when you have a decidated core of posters who are elitist in their opinion (No matter how much they want to suggest otherwise), it makes it much more difficult to formulate what many would consider worthy discussion. This leads to a circle effect in a way, where because it is so difficult to gain a common hold (Especially between those that are well versed in their own opinion) between each other, we trudge up the same old same old that 'everyone' loves of course, and nver has a bad thing to say about.

Interesting discussion on the 'negativity' factor that preceeds a lot of discussion around most music forums. As commented, a lot of posters react more to a bad album they have heard of than a potentially good album that someone else is pressing them to listen to. Don't really have a comment to add, I can't really be bothered posting about shit I hate, not that I spend too much time posting about what I like. 4ZZZ, the bloke that introduced me to the site stopped posting because of the overall dominating negative 'buzz' he got from the site. This was back when the 'this xxx sucks' threads were open though.

TBH I can't see musicbanter changing a whole lot if I do end up hanging around more often/less often as long as there is a solid core of posters that are willing to hang around.