What is happening with MB?

GuitarBizarre · 01-01-2011, 10:09 AM

Really I think this forum has very few problems. It could perhaps do with being a little more active in places, but the mods are good the trolls are nonexistant (Depending on your view of certain members). If I had a choice between how things are now and how they could be if we made the place more active but lost the mod team, I'd take the slowness every time.

Also, I agree with UB about those members people think are comedic geniuses despite their schtick being to be generally annoying, but theres not much we can do about that unless we convince the mods the forum would be a better place without such people. Its nothing a policy can be enforced on.

Dr_Rez · 01-01-2011, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

I agree that these kind of threads are idiotic. I can't see the attraction of posting on-topic in a one-word thread at all and I view such threads mostly as distractions. I wouldn't personally mind if they were all gone.

Yes but they are not in the music forums which is the most important. Personally if the lounge is cluttered with that stuff it just means less bad threads in the real parts.

GuitarBizarre · 01-01-2011, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by RezZ

Yes but they are not in the music forums which is the most important. Personally if the lounge is cluttered with that stuff it just means less bad threads in the real parts.

Thats actually not true. Another board I used to frequent had a board called "It Just Bugs Me" - The premise was it was a forum to soak up all the bitching about things that pervaded other boards.

It actually just ENCOURAGED bitching, in all forms. They've nuked it now, but I think the place is so hung up on having that ability to bitch about things that its sown its own demise. If that board had never existed I doubt that problem would be there.

I'd be against deleting subforums that we already have, or creating new ones, but I do think there should be an encouragement of some description to create threads with content in as opposed to timewasters. We do have a LOT of threads around the whole of musicbanter that serve as 'megathreads' for people to waste time in by repeating themselves. All of the forum games threads for example.

on the other hand, we do have the Saturday sixpack, the mini review this song thread, and lots of other longrunners that encourage genuine posts.

Perhaps we should simply start pruning forums games a bit? Allow it to exist, but close inactive threads and nuke ones with particularly little actual content?

Dr_Rez · 01-01-2011, 04:34 PM

Your probably correct. I just feel with the group of people that post here (not to name anyone in specific) that off topic and meaningless posts will continue to happen. There are a lot of everyday active posters that im pretty sure contribute way more in the lounge than anywhere else. I dont see anything wrong with that as this is Music Banter but still should be a place for someone to vent or talk about whatever they please.

The focus should definitely be shifted back to more music oriented posting though.

NSW · 01-01-2011, 05:55 PM

How about we stop making threads about "why MB isn't as good as it used to be" and start talking about music?

GuitarBizarre · 01-01-2011, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

How about we stop making threads about "why MB isn't as good as it used to be" and start talking about music?

I have been doing. Who says men can't multitask!

Anyway, this is the only one, and so far the consensus seems to be it isn't worse than it used to be, but it could be better. Better is always a good thing, yes?

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NSW · 01-01-2011, 06:41 PM

Maybe I should have worded that better. Yes, of course MB could be better.

I seem to remember about two threads prior to this one questioning the future of MB and talking about how much its gone downhill. Yes, valid points are always brought out, however I get the feeling that some people just like to bitch, and its getting old.

Freebase Dali · 01-01-2011, 06:46 PM

Maybe not so much that they like to bitch, but more that they're seemingly failing to realize that not everyone has the same perspective about it as they do.
Saying a forum is going downhill and will never be the same because your friends stopped using it or what have you, is like saying life (for everyone) is going downhill because all your friends died.

Kind of an over-the-top comparison, but it's the same concept.
That said, I think the forum will do just fine as long as great members keep showing up and great members keep getting modded.

jackhammer · 01-01-2011, 06:48 PM

I like bitching. Sometimes forums need a boot up the arse and this might actually help.

MoonlitSunshine · 01-01-2011, 06:51 PM

I think the diversity of posting and the sheer number of members who have responded to this thread with decent answers goes to show that this forum is far from dying. When I joined, there were maybe 10,15 people who could have been considered regulars. I think maybe 3 or 4 of them still post on the forum, and I don't think any of the mod team have remained. Forums change, they evolve, but I think the general Essence of MB has definitely improved over time. For every troll/spammer, there is at least one thoughtful poster, and many more who, if given pointers (like about the youtube thing - I agree, but what is obvious to some may not be obvious to others: simply pointing it out can do a world of good), would post just as well as any of the "best".

MB has always been a fantastic place to go to find music, or just thought-provoking debate, and I can't see that changing any time soon, with the userbase that it currently has.

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Dr_Rez Registered Jimmy Rustler Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA Posts: 5,360	Your probably correct. I just feel with the group of people that post here (not to name anyone in specific) that off topic and meaningless posts will continue to happen. There are a lot of everyday active posters that im pretty sure contribute way more in the lounge than anywhere else. I dont see anything wrong with that as this is Music Banter but still should be a place for someone to vent or talk about whatever they please. The focus should definitely be shifted back to more music oriented posting though. __________________ Best chance of losing virginity is in prison crew Always Checks Credentials Crew nba > nfl crew Shave one of my legs to pretend its a girl in my bed crew

01-01-2011, 05:55 PM	#35 (permalink)
NSW Bigger and Better Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas girl living in the UK Posts: 2,596	How about we stop making threads about "why MB isn't as good as it used to be" and start talking about music? __________________ Hi.

01-01-2011, 06:41 PM	#37 (permalink)
NSW Bigger and Better Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas girl living in the UK Posts: 2,596	Maybe I should have worded that better. Yes, of course MB could be better. I seem to remember about two threads prior to this one questioning the future of MB and talking about how much its gone downhill. Yes, valid points are always brought out, however I get the feeling that some people just like to bitch, and its getting old. __________________ Hi.

01-01-2011, 06:48 PM	#39 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I like bitching. Sometimes forums need a boot up the arse and this might actually help. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

01-01-2011, 06:51 PM	#40 (permalink)
MoonlitSunshine Dat's Der Bunny! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,088	I think the diversity of posting and the sheer number of members who have responded to this thread with decent answers goes to show that this forum is far from dying. When I joined, there were maybe 10,15 people who could have been considered regulars. I think maybe 3 or 4 of them still post on the forum, and I don't think any of the mod team have remained. Forums change, they evolve, but I think the general Essence of MB has definitely improved over time. For every troll/spammer, there is at least one thoughtful poster, and many more who, if given pointers (like about the youtube thing - I agree, but what is obvious to some may not be obvious to others: simply pointing it out can do a world of good), would post just as well as any of the "best". MB has always been a fantastic place to go to find music, or just thought-provoking debate, and I can't see that changing any time soon, with the userbase that it currently has. __________________ "I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?" - Arthur Dent

01-01-2011, 06:46 PM	#38 (permalink)
Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	Maybe not so much that they like to bitch, but more that they're seemingly failing to realize that not everyone has the same perspective about it as they do. Saying a forum is going downhill and will never be the same because your friends stopped using it or what have you, is like saying life (for everyone) is going downhill because all your friends died. Kind of an over-the-top comparison, but it's the same concept. That said, I think the forum will do just fine as long as great members keep showing up and great members keep getting modded.