How Important is the Name that Tune section?
 

Name that tune

I'm just wondering how useful people consider this section of the forum to be. I don't doubt that there are some songs that people liked to hear on there, but it seems to me that the number of people sticking around after posting in that section is either very small on nonexistent.
I've also not seen any of the regular members start a thread in there either (but that's really just in the last 5 months I have been a member here).
I'm wondering if people think it still constitutes an important part of this forum or if it has worn out it's usefulness.

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I love that section and I'm actually quite offended that you would suggest it isn't useful.

Well, I've not been here long enough to really make any proper judgement over this, but it comes across to me that no one in the MB community actually uses it for asking about songs. It seems to be more often used by people who only stay until their question is answered, which hardly benefits the community.

Of course duga, I don't want to offend you, I respect you a lot and just want to find out what everyone thinks about this.

EDIT: If people agree in general still like it, I'd be happy for this thread to be moved to the jokes forum!

Relax, I was just joking. I think it's a pretty useless section, personally...but people join the forum all the time with the sole purpose of figuring out a song. Instead of flooding the main music sections, they can post there (or we move it there).

You don't want to see what this place looks like when these people don't have a proper place to throw their junk.

I chose other because I don't really care but I've used it before a few times.

I am regularly moving threads into it, and I do find that they are often responded to, with due speed.

You shouldn't do this to me! :laughing:I see, I've misunderstood it's real use!
I imagine that without it, the general music section would look very ugly with closed threads dotted everywhere, so I see where you're coming from.
The question remains; should people be allowed to sign up for the purpose of merely asking help in identifying a song?

Personally I think they should, because I don't like the idea of being shut tight completely, but on the other hand it doesn't really help the community much.

Yes, that's the problem with this thread, I haven't really been around long enough to see any regular members use it, but this is obviously proof of the contrary.

Yes because there's no real way of stopping them. As was already established, while starting a new thread elsewhere asking to identify a song is unacceptable, the only real solution is to have the Name That Tune section to keep them all together and there's nothing to stop them from posting there. There's no other way around it. It's not like you can interrogate new members as to why they've signed up and then not let them post looking for help.

I've gone into it a few times, I don't think I've ever used it personally but I have helped answer some requests. it's fun going into it and seeing a) if you can actually solve any of the requests, and b) how crazy they sometimes are.

"hey, I heard this song when I was 5, it had a guy singing and I there was a line about a girl...

DOES ANYONE KNOW????"


Sometimes there are interesting ones though - there's one in there at the moment which multiple people have posted in and absolutely noone recognises despite their being a video of it. It's worth having, because it doesn't hurt the rest of the forum having it, it helps to have a place to send all the random requests that the forum gets, not everything on the forum has to be purely in order to "help the community" and hey, it's fun.

Yes, this is true and I agree with it entirely. It's also not right to have a situation where new members can't get anything out of the knowledge available to them on the forum.

And of course, if you don't want to post there, you don't have to!

That's easy, it's Stairway To Heaven ;)

It's always nice to help people as well, even if they don't stick around. We don't want to earn a reputation as cunts either by telling them to go fuck off, as a lot of them are not doing any harm or not trying to promote something (although a lot are unfortunately). I'm not sure if it boosts the site's Google ratings or not but it's no harm to have.

By the way your avatar is distracting.

:laughing:This is a great point - there are people here who love to help and share their musical knowledge, and this is to be encouraged. And I suppose that the Name that tune section is a great way of applying that, not to mention giving a good impression.:laughing:
Sorry! But then again, so is Vanilla's, and djchameleon's, and pedestrian's....

We already had this discussion a year or so ago.

It took me years and years to find the proper name of this song as it's quite an abscure song title. I had a crush on a guy when I was 10 years old who used to sing this and I've loved it ever since!

Ah sorry, this was the other reason I wasn't sure about this. I haven't been here that long, but I did use the search tool but didn't find anything recent, so I was hoping there would be some new ideas about it. I did think that something like this might have been done, but sorry if everyone's heard this all before.
Aw, that's great! It's good that there are "success stories" from that section, it's quite a tune!

All those years and all you needed to do was google "everybody needs a bosom for a pillow".

I'm blonde.

No one thinks its useful. Are you suggesting we remove it?

I suggest the following compromise. Anytime someone asks some assanine question, we can hit them with something to the effect of this.

no idea, i hardly ever go there

as if I'm some walking IPod or something

I thought there might be a general opinion like that, if the consensus was that it served no purpose and got on everyone's nerves, then there would be a case for suggesting that it should be archived. However, that's not the response the poll showed, particularly the fact that every single moderator who has posted in this thread says it serves a purpose.Nice one! :laughing:
The point is that some people here like to use their knowledge to help other people out, and this section I suppose is a good opportunity for that.

How does it get on your nerves? It only gets a post once a month or so (iirc).

It doesn't get on my nerves, but I was referring to the possibility that some people might get annoyed by people asking for help with no intention of staying in the forum.

Obviously, I'm not saying anything about my own opinions on this matter, because I joined last October and you've been around for nearly eight years now, so I'm happy to not make any judgement at all.

^^if it were only a case of people dropping by and not staying, you might as well get rid of the intros section as well

about 20 say hi and only 1 or 2 stay every month

So you created a topic on this on the off-chance that some people might not like it, in order to... find out that most people are ok with it, and some people don't like it? If there was any real problem with this particular subforum, surely it would have been voiced before now...

You're trying too hard, Salami :P

he's trying too hard to be not "inane"

i say just be who you are, Luke

and beware of the dark side

No, I really was more interested in actually finding out what people thought, not on the off chance of anything. As a matter of fact, the response is very different from what I was expecting, and people have given me some good reasons for it's existence. If nothing else, at least I've been educated a little, and I think it has helped to make the forum's policy on this a bit clearer.

How was it not clear before?

Well, I thought the same as Big3. If it "isn't useful" (as he put), then I didn't get why it was still around.
Obviously I wasn't suggesting for any action to be taken about it, that would be reflected in the poll.
It was just helpful for me personally to understand a little bit more about why it's there.

Time of the month Salami?

I went with other. To be honest I joined because of the name-that-tune section. I was trying to find the name of an old track and there seemed to be a decent collective music knowledge so I thought this would be a good place to ask. Nobody ever named my tune but I found this was a great place to learn about new/unheard music so I'm still here.

I don't generally bother naming any tunes for anyone else either, mainly because there are such useless descriptions of where they heard the song it's impossible to guess what it is and even if you do know the song they never come back and say whether you were right or not so it's a pretty fruitless exercise.


btw. If you want to name my tune ;)

Eighties-Nineties Mystery Tracks