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Originally Posted by tore
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Your suggestion cracked me up, Tore.
I can just imagine the droves of people who would be drawn into MusicBanter if I actually had a front page spot from which to spout my feminist, atheist, cynical yet hopeful vegan views, rather than simply from my songwriting thread.
But I *do* feel it is great that you are all motivated to organize to try to get the Front Page you'd like. I'd like to see this happen, if only to make right-track's long-held dream come true. Listen to him in this thread...he sounds so positive, so excited, almost hopeful! It is a right-track I've never seen before!
I think I'm going to cry! I'm surrounded by...sniff...
fellow activists!
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Originally Posted by right-track
My vision for this site would look something not dissimilar to this... Soul Source : Rare Northern Soul Music.
In my opinion, that's how this site would have cut it's teeth and earned it's reputation.
There's more than enough radical thinking individuals here to have pulled it off. |
Radical? Did I hear "radical" used in a positive way by YOU???
Heh heh. Seriously though, I like to see you have kept your dream alive. If you don't TRY to get what you want, you never will. So it is worth trying...and the more people you have on board, the more likely it is that the owners will listen.
The goal of getting a Front Page should be achievable, right-track. My experience with petition drives in the "real" world makes me think MB will probably need 1,000 "signatures" to get the owners' attention.
In a real world community with 40,000 residents, 2,000 petition signatures seem to be necessary to get a city council to listen. This was the case when I set up a petition drive to help residents whose homes or yards were slotted to be destroyed by a highway widening project. We were successful.
So, for *our* online community, you may need all hands on deck to achieve 1,000 poll votes in favor of a Front Page for MusicBanter.
I recommend that all people who read Tore's thread and support this cause should temporarily make their signatures link to this thread, like Conan did, so that you can raise awareness of the cause.
TORE...would you please post the exact wording of your signature so people can cut and paste it into their signatures quickly and easily for those of us who can't figure out what link to use to get:
Please, show your support! MusicBanter Needs a Front Page!
When I used the permalink for this thread while trying to change my sig, it didn't give me the words "MusicBanter Needs a Front Page!" and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
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Originally Posted by Burning Down
I think it's an awesome idea Tore. I'm a moderator on another forum, and we changed our homepage in February to something very similar. Since then, we've attracted a lot of new members who actually stay for awhile, probably because they can browse through popular topics and posts before deciding if it's a good forum to join.
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Your experience with an increase in membership is EXACTLY the sort of bargaining chip that MusicBanter should be able to use with the owners.
Also, if 1,000 members express themselves, the owners will probably *want* to do something, if not out of human kindness then at least out of the desire to protect their $20,000 investment in the site. (Either that, or ban the lot of us!)