Does Music Banter Ever Change?
 

Yes the people come and go but does the environment here ever really differ? There's always people who have a problem with the mods, there's always people complaining about today's music being crap, there's always radiohead fanboys, people arguing over which band is the most obscure and of course the drama!

What is your thoughts?

I've been here for nearly 8 years and I can't say much is different. There's always at least one troll at all times. But one thing that's never been repeated (yet) is Boo Boo's infamous banning of half the forum! :laughing:

I'm obviously new here, I wish I had found this board years ago. I like it here.

It's pretty much the same with minor variances along the road. It's like anything else.

It's cool eh! I love this place, even through the bits of drama here and there. It's got a great lot of regulars.

The only problem I've run into is that everybody seems to be jealous of my hair.

;)

I can honestly say that it has sort of changed, it mainly has to do with what's going on with the MB inner circle and population of the forum. I felt a different vibe long ago in, it felt more or less like I related to more of the members. MB also used to get a lot more hits, hence it being more populated. It feels a bit desolated, a tad lonely now, like looking into the window of somewhere you used to live.

I couldn't answer that question from a moderators standpoint. Doesn't seem all that different to me now than it did the day I joined, except for all the different members that have come and gone. The members themselves and their individual personalities are what brings change here. It does seem to get quite slow around the boards here at MB sometimes. (boring) ..

Yeah I agree, I guess there is just not enough people on here or maybe because most people are on at the same timezone. Whereas I'm ready to interact with people when you guys are all bloody asleep or working!

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I think it's sort of the same, sort of different. The hip hop forum is more active now than it was when I first joined and the hardcore forum is less active. I'm not sure about the overall activity. This place was always kind of dead late at night (in my part of the world) and on weekends, and I still find that to be true.

I haven't really been here as long as some of you so couldn't say how much the place has changed from how it was originally, but I think in many ways it's really more a case of people adapting, or not, to suit the environment. I found, on my first visit here in 2008, that people were very condescending towards me for what was perceived as my "vanilla" (no pun intended, Jess) musical tastes, and it pushed me to the point where I left, only returning a few years later, when I found I suddenly had a lot of time on my hands. Even then, I only worked on my journal and didn't really meet anyone outside of that, with the exception of Jackhammer.

But over the now three years I've been here I've come to appreciate people more for who and what they are. Some members come across as snappish, cold, rude, but you have to get to know them to realise why, or indeed if, that is the case, and once you do that you get a better feeling for them as people. So whereas the space may not change the people often do, or seem to. It's like, to me, reading a book: as you get deeper into it and start sussing out who the characters are, why they do certain things and what makes them the way they are, you gain a much better understanding of, and sometimes sympathy for their situation.

That's been my experience here anyway. Not to shoot people down at first and to try to understand where they're coming from, and nine times out of ten I've made if not a friend then at least a non-enemy. People will always complain, especially those just joining up who don't understand the dynamic of the place, but really that will happen everywhere. Since I rejoined and ventured out into the forums themselves I've found this to be a lively, mostly friendly place with people who try their best to get on, don't always succeed, but usually end up remaining relatively close and friendly.

Hey, it's just like real life, but without the bumps, scrapes and bruises! :)

Same shit, different day.

Dang TH took my analogy I was going to use. The characters change but roles and environment in which they perform doesn't.

Some people hold onto certain characters behavoirs as the glory days just because they prefer those behavoirs.

I prefer my forums to not be heavily populated. First, with so many people, it can be hard to get to know anyone. Second, a forum with a lot of members usually has 95% ****ty members. And third, people's responses tend to get drowned out in a massive see of one word posts that are completely pointless.

Quality over Quanity.

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I totally agree with this. The first forum I ever joined was the IMDb forum and its just insane--hard to get to know anyone because there is such a massive amount of people posting there, hard to keep threads going because they literally end up on the second page in a matter of minutes. Of course I don't want a place that's so dead you to wait weeks for replies either, but that's not the case with MB.

It has changed. There's far less discussion in the hardcore & emo forum and far more dumb threads like this one.

I think we've pretty much exchanged activity in the hardcore & emo forum for activity in the hip hop forum.

To be honest I don't really ever recall there being much activity in that sub forum from when I joined to now.

Interesting observation, I might be inclined to agree. Both seem(ed) to have a core group of people that hung around in there and rarely venture into other parts of the forum to discuss other genres.

It had a modest amount of activity before you joined and a little while after. But like I said, it was usually the same group of 5-10 people discussing it.

I think a lot of it came down to one person: bardonodude. When he stopped posting regularly that forum got pretty quiet.

Wow that's deep. You're a regular So-crates.

There's less craziness, less hostility and more hurt-feelings kind of drama these days, I think. And I felt like the forums had more uppers and movers back in the day, more people who were ambitious with threads and whatnot. The forums feel slower and perhaps a bit more "bored" these days.

If MB used to be a wild roller coaster ride back in the days, it's sort of mellowed out a bit these days. The highs are not as high and the lows are not as low.

1. Anything with any real flavor is locked.

2. We're living in a time of hive-mind. Too much affectation. People aren't willing to go out on a limb with their interests. Or talk about it. And the only thing that hasn't changes is that the same ethos of preferring to slam other peoples taste rather than post about your own.

And we lack the bodies to tell those people to **** off.

It will never change. Same drama, different characters.

I think that if you simplify anything far enough, you could say it doesn't evolve at all.

Him and I live in the same state, he's off doing his own thing, and hardly ever making sense on Facebook. He wasn't just into hardcore and emo though, he's into everything from weird jazz to twee.

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