GuitarBizarre

I love this. 11 pages in and this is literally the first sincere-sounding congratulations in the entire thread.

And I'm still not COMPLETELY sure its even sincere

Alfred

It's not.

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GuitarBizarre

You're a good actor.

Guybrush

I think the lack of control we have over MB is stifling and unfair. We're the ones who use this site, yet we have so little control over it. I know it's irked me for a long time now.

Had it ever seemed possible to do it in a way that keeps the community intact, I would've organized a mass exodus to a new forum a long time ago. I would've asked members to move their journals, reviews or other beloved threads to the new site and delete them here to quickly get content at the new site and hopefully climb the google ranks quicker .. or to move to a forum which has already been around a while so that it's not a no-man's land and an influx of members could be expected in the future.

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GuitarBizarre

As a note, Jayshreddz is online and has made 2 posts that aren't in his post history. I'm guessing that means he's in the mod cave talking about...the things that have happened today.

Salami

With the greatest respect, my experience was that after what I considered a perfectly reasonable conversation starter in his intro thread ended up with him blanketly dismissing one of my favourite genres as "just awful" and that I "haven't listened to it enough to understand", I felt he was the one who was being objectionable, to treat one of my favourite parts of music with such contempt - dismissing something that means so much to me so coarsely was pretty horrible.

I tried to be polite and reasonable, but it was clearly worth nothing.

Freebase Dali

I still don't think it would be worth risking everything we've built here on the chance that a second site would be just as successful. I think we do a lot here to really open the minds and broaden the horizons of a lot of people and bring them into the fold here because of the exposure this place gets, and this place grows because of it. I don't really have any illusions that an en-mass exodus would gain enough traction at a new site to rival the benefit this one has in the search engines, at least not quick enough for all but a core membership to populate the new one long-term, and it might just get dull enough in that scenario that some core members would become weary from the slowness.

GuitarBizarre

Modojo did it, and we only had a core population of a hundred or so members. We were so dead that we had half the number of forums open that MB does, and still weren't as busy, but we had to go somewhere, and we migrated just fine.

THe issue isn't the result, its getting enough people onboard to go elsewhere, so that the rest follow.

Goofle

^ This.

We accept the guy's a a bit of a hole, everyone gets on with their lives.

Job's a gud un.

Now, all the other discussions are of merit, but regarding this individual... could we please act like grown adults?

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Key

I've said this in the chatroom already but i'll say it here as well. There's not a lot of reason or evidence as to why any of us really need to get so worked up over this. First of all, it's the first day anything significant has happened to the mod team, but nothing significant has actually happened to the forum that is evident to anybody, maybe the mods, but only mods will know that. Also, I understand Urban's frustration, but that is also nothing to get worked up about, mostly for the fact that we should all wait it out and see what happens in the next couple days, or even the next week or two. We're getting stressed and overworked because this is all overwhelming and not a lot of information has been passed onto us to really make a big deal out of it. I'm keeping a mutual side of this, and i'm not blaming anybody for any anger or being upset just yet until something is given to us to be upset about. We're getting upset over our own assumptions, that's it.