Originally Posted by Guybrush (Post 2223601)

I think a problem with dead subforums is they kinda tell you you're probably not gonna get much response to whatever it is you write in there, so it's an incentive killer. It indicates the lack of interest and placement in a forgotten place won't help your thread get noticed. Also, as someone who listens to a variety of music, I don't mind discussing artists from different genres in the same forum. If it's too active so that things get buried, sure that can be a problem, but it's one you can then deal with when (and if) it becomes relevant.

Also it is possible to curate threads or, if we could update MB and expand on its functionality, perhaps use tags or other ways to sort things besides keeping these genre oubliettes gathering dust.

It was nice back in the day when it felt like MB was in a little way made up of smaller communities, like we had our prog lovers gang and kinda ran the prog subforum for a while. But that's a lot of members ago and MB isn't like that anymore.

Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2223681)

I agree with the incentive killer bit personally. I posted a couple of songs in the spam thread recently and on the first one I said straight up the reason I'm not posting this in like the world music section or whatever the **** is because the place is a ****ing graveyard. Even the hip hop section is worthless. You could honestly probably get rid of all the non rock oriented music forums or at least lump them into one forum.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2223719)

My main worry here is that, if we close down unused sub-forums and people are posting in them, will they then get trapped in there? Has anyone considered that? How do we mount a rescue operation to get, say, poor Mindfulness out of the rap sub-forum, or our lonely video-poster whose legs are now crushed and pinned under the collapsed walls of the electronica forum? These are questions that need to be asked, and I think a sub-committee should go on a fact-finding mission to see how these things are accomplished in forums in countries like, oh, I don't know, top of the head - Brazil maybe? Seychelles? Ibiza? All expenses paid of course. For research, sir! For research!

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2223736)

That balloon will never get into the small confines of the rap sub-forum. You haven't really thought this one out, have you?
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Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2223748)

yeah it really is just us and frownland sometimes