The Constructive Ideas Thread

[sopsych]

"Needs of the many"? This site feels like a club, but it's actually set up for the general public. In theory, it should be the dominant music forum, but look at how few people are active and how lousy the music discussion is. Only a few times per month do I see any music thread worth replying to (granted, there are some sections I don't follow). It sounds to me that was the underlying point by Duga and Pedestrian, and it certainly is mine. I doubt anything will really change unless the sheriff orders it. I could be long gone, and the same old [bleep] will be happening. Wake up.

I'm sick of people requesting the mod team be nicer and nicer and nicer and less and less confrontational. How forgiving do you want them to be? You saw the sopsych situation grow and spread out of all control until it dominated all chat on the forum, the plug.dj, and the thread was an unholy mess. It survived for over 40 pages and 7 whole days of ceaseless, fruitless argument and even when it WAS finally resovled the person at the center of it wasn't banned.

Oh? Meanwhile, it seems like people can hurl insults regularly and never get banned. "Trolling" becomes a cop-out, sweeping under the rug. Real trolling includes insincerity. Nothing I said was bogus. Every point was reasonable enough, and it was said in the right part of the site for that. There's some weird, unhappy stasis in Music Banter, like Congress.

I'm logging out to avoid temptation.