pourmeanother

Yeah, with more information on the specific topic coming in constantly it seems like a board is a going concern. But, the amount of things to talk about dwindles over time. This is kind of dumb and obvious, but it's what popped into my head:

Let's say there are 100 musical events from the past to talk about, 100 bands in existence to talk about, and 5 new things each day to talk about. Over time - a span of maybe 5 years in an online forum - the 100 events are thoroughly discussed, each of the 100 bands has its own thread that has been discusses to death, and the 5 new things continue to pop up each day. With all of the past and all of the bands covered, all that's left to talk about is day-to-day events, which is why "LOUNGE" forums tend to become more and more popular to post in (more so than music, in this case). Once you've made a thread chronicling the top 100 guitarists in history, there is no need for a new discussion on the exact same thing 2 years later... It's there in stone, and done.

With sports- you've chronicled the most clutch performances, the 1945 World Series, the greatest hockey player of all time, whether there should be instant replay, whether or not college players should be paid, whether or not LT is the greatest RB of all time, the 2007 footy season.... This is interchangeable with any forum topic: music, sports, POG collecting... And you run out.

My thoughts on keeping everything fresh:
-Solid mod crew.
-More debates (where ^ is important).
-Build off of music recommendations and swapping: One of the coolest thread ideas I saw was one where each month a user picks a random album for another one to listen to.
-Concert revues/photo sharing. I was pretty surprised when I came here that there isn't much in terms of sharing concert experiences. I know there's the member journals and picture thread, but people don't use those for that too often it seems.
-Out of the box creativity with music posts: not just "Top 100 Drummers", "Favorite Album".
-If possible, lower the lounge activity: Merge subforums? Posting incentives (since you don't get credit for posting in the lounge)? Something.

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mr dave

i think Boo Boo's current top100 video games thread where members list off their top 10 choices in order to establish a point system for the overall list could (and should) be redone for albums.

maybe only have the initial 'voting' thread open until mid-December and then compile the list for a 2010 MB top 100 albums or something to be presented in early January.

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storymilo

I definitely agree. It might be better to have a different type of points system though, because in the current system even if ten members choose the same album/game, and put it at #10, it will still only be equal to one members #1. A way it could work is maybe have people nominate albums, and if they get a couple other people to agree it will be put in a poll. Then once we get 100 nominated albums, people vote on the top ten out of that 100. But that would take a lot of work

The same could be done for movies and books

Rickenbacker

Books? Books are incomparable. The Bible is a great book. So is Oh the Places You'll Go! Can you compare them? Of course not.

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cardboard adolescent

why the fuck not?

jackhammer

Nothing should be sacred, incomparable or unworthy when it comes to media or arts. The Mona Lisa is classed as the greatest portrait painted. Does that mean that we shouldn't debate the fact that it is? Of course it doesn't!

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I get what you mean in art, as doing my higher art & design it was mandatory that you could compare a painting praised as much as The Mona Lisa, and one not famous at all, and back it up with valid points. But I get what Rickenbackers saying in a way, cos I don't really see the method as to comparing books, not that it couldn't be done more like how would it be done. For example in art, light sources, brush strokes, texture etc are examined, how would it be done in a book? (I'm not like trying to make you contradict yourself, but meerly asking how it would be done if you know)

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storymilo

I think it would be pretty easy to get a musicbanter top 100 books. It probably wouldn't be easy to get a 100 greatest books, but if we use a nomination system like I suggested we could make a list. I don't think anyone will nominate the Bible or Oh The Places You'll go, but if they do we'll just see if people vote for them

NumberNineDream

It's like in reading comprehension, you analyze. Like the brush strokes of the paintings or the progression of the song we can have the structure of the story, the evolution of the character, the style of the writer, the meaning behind the story and blah and blah and blah ...

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someonecompletelyrandom

Yes but when books are in two completly seperate categories (ie one designed for adults and one for children) would this type of comparison really be fair?