*** The Themed Weekly Member Mixtape Thread Is Back ***

[Trollheart]

Thanks for that.
I'd like to make the following proposal, to ensure, hopefully, that this doesn't fall flat on its face after a few weeks. I know there may be some initial enthusiasm but that generally tends to melt away by the second or third week and we're back at square one.

So I would ask for a general list of members who believe they can contribute to this on an ongoing basis. I'm not asking for a lifetime commitment, but anyone who believes they can take part more or less each week if they could just let me know. In fact, I'll do another signup sheet. This will mean that anyone who hasn't submitted a track any particular week can be contacted by me to remind them. I don't wish to get heavy with this, but if the previous attempts have taught up anything it's that a bit of a push is definitely often necessary.

You needn't worry; a signup sheet does not mean you take a turn sorting out and collating the tracks. I'll do that each week. It's just a general indication of your interest and your determination to help this thread succeed. Again.

I'm not doing themes (at least, to start off with) as I believe they have been the downfall of previous incarnations of this thread: people tend to use the excuse "Oh I can't think of a song to fit the theme" and then don't contribute at all. So leaving it loose like this I think will hopefully give us a better chance of success. If it takes off, and people want themes, and can commit to them, then we'll see.

So for now, if
a) you can be relied upon to submit one track per week to the tape
b) you can agree to listen to the whole tape each week and
c) you agree to thrown down some general comments once you have listened to it, then please sign up below.

Thanks

SIGNUP SHEET

Trollheart
Overcast

[Trollheart]

I just realised I should clarify: this is NOT like Frownland's "members' own music" thing. You can submit your own music if you want, but you don't have to. Any genre, any album, any artiste, just ideally perhaps something a lot of us will not know. One track only though.

Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[Overcast]

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[Trollheart]

It's been two days and I've had one enquiry. This is going as expected. Is nobody else interested then? Should I just shut up shop and forget about trying??

[grindy]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

It's been two days and I've had one enquiry. This is going as expected. Is nobody else interested then? Should I just shut up shop and forget about trying??

I think actually having a theme would make this whole thing a little more interesting, although widespread participation would obviously still be far from guaranteed.

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by grindy

I think actually having a theme would make this whole thing a little more interesting, although widespread participation would obviously still be far from guaranteed.

Yeah, like I said, we tried that, several times, and it just gave people an excuse not to participate. If themes are desired we can do them, sure, but at the moment there's not enough interest even with or without themes, so I'm sort of thinking I may just drop it. I'll give it another few days but if I only have one or two people interested by the end of the week that'll be the end of that and this thread can officially be buried. I'm getting tired of trying to keep it alive, and I'm not the only one who has done so over the last few years. People just don't seem to care, so why should I?

[Frownland]

I can send in a track. You sure you don't want a theme? I like it better that way tbh.

[Trollheart]

I really don't mind. If you prefer a theme we can have one but I'd want to have a handful of people confirmed before I bother trying to resurrect this again. I need more interest, otherwise, as you know yourself, it just isn't worth all the hassle. I'm not doing this for three or four people.

[Trollheart]

Two responses? TWO ****ing responses???

That's it: I'm done with this now. Nobody's interested anymore. I suggest the thread is un-stickied and allowed to die. This was my last attempt to resurrect it and it met with a wall of silence and disinterest and apathy, so I'm finished with it, and I can't see anyone else getting it going either. I've better things to waste my time on.

[GlobalMusic]

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