Sparky

you guys put way too much thought into it, and then get frustrated when no one notices.

Believe me, I don't wanna read 750 words of text. All you have to do is the album title and embed some youtube videos so i can listen for myself. I have no interest in joining a club or attaching myself to anything.

I'm exceptionally lazy, i don't know what others think, but i really only look to discuss how i feel about whatever artist im listening to currently and don't really care about the original post that much.

Guybrush

Then we're quite different. I do read long posts and if I see a thread dedicated to a band, I would like to be able to read a bit about where the band comes from and how many albums they've put out f.ex. I generally loathe the kind of new band threads which only post a youtube movie and then a minimum of text. To me, that sort of lazyness represents in large part the decline of MB. If everyone posts like that, this place loses all substance.

edit :

To me, the phrase "nuff said" generally means "I wanted to inform you of something, but was too lazy to apply anything but an absolute minimum effort into doing it".

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Sparky

But google already defeats the purpose of all that.

I go on mostly to be turned on to new music and comment on it. The original post is just a gateway to the discussion, i've never noticed a more thought out description of the band as ever lending to richer discussion.

I find when the original topic is too focused on one particular aspect it limits the discussion

Guybrush

I think if you have an album club with friends, you are generally interested in their opinions on the album being discussed. You can't google them. If everyone's too lazy to write more than half a line of text or even too lazy to even do that, then what was the point in describing and nominating that album for discussion and elaborating on your feelings about it in the first place?

I'm not complaining about the way things were, just trying to point out a problem. If you write a long post and only get met with least-effort-replies, then it could sort of make you wonder what the point was with writing that large post at all. Your work largely goes unrewarded.

That's what happens here. If you put effort into something, that often goes unrewarded. The only way to prevent that from happening is by not putting real effort into anything and then you get that shallow sort of forum where 90% or more of posts in the average music topic contain nothing worth reading.

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Sparky

haha, in that case im unfortunately part of the problem

SATCHMO

Wow, that is absolutely, 100% true. I wish I had realized that a long time ago.

Guybrush

I guess this is sarcasm. What I'm saying is that to change MB in a direction we'd like, we have to make MB a place which rewards the behaviour we want to see. Just punishing the behaviour we don't want is not enough. Such changes are a lot easier to do with the backing of a caring administrator who respects the community and is willing to make changes.

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GuitarBizarre

Thats beautiful, whats it called?





Its called "Lick My Love Pump"

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SATCHMO

It's not sarcasm at all. If anything it's an indictment of my own ignorance. I kind of had a mini revelation reading your response.

Howard the Duck

i'm too new here and have nothing to compare it with, besides reading the old metal posts, which were full of idiotic poseurs, and i'm grateful for the metal community we have today

like i said, if djchameleon were not as firendly to me as he was when i joined, or that we didn't develop a friendship here and on the chatroom, i'd never have stayed

jayshredzz merely got off on the wrong footing, personally i don't mind him, as i said a few pages earlier, it was just a wtf moment

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