Originally Posted by Lateralus

It was to some extent when I joined as well, I remember my first ever post was in the Tool thread and I got completely shut down by a bunch of people making fun of Tool fans and commenting "Now I know why I hate Tool fans" etc. But I figured that was pretty normal for an Internet forum, I stuck around anyway because I liked the discussion about music.

I don't really think it's about how welcoming we are to new members, I think it's more about the fact that while new members feel quite welcomed, after a few months they tend to leave due to not being stimulated by the music discussion (perhaps, this is an assumption). I still feel as though a LOT of threads tend to go completely off-topic with members posting one-word answers or stupid frivolous stuff or stupid pointless GIFs that doesn't bring anything to the discussion... at least dj when members like yourself reply to threads you are bringing something valuable to the discussion, rather than some off-topic bull**** that noone understands because it's some inside joke between "BFFs zomg let's use musicbanter forums as our personal chat channel" IYKWIM...