For instance, you've organized the tourney stuff and I am a big fan of that.
Heh, well I appreciate your appreciation. I guess I've been fairly active the past couple days, although as the summer progresses I won't be on as much.
Brah, I think you're romanticizing the olde world a bit. I think it's more to do with you evolving musically than the forum devolving. The discussions about music haven't really become any narrower as far as I can see (although I do spend less time on here though that's not due to any perceived quality of content) I think just the stuff discussed here that was discussed before was new to you then and now is not. But complaining about the fact that people discuss new releases from big high profile artists at length is a bit counter productive I think. That stuff is healthy. I do agree with what you say about the "Oh hey more indie rock ok cool as long as it sounds like arcade fire I'm down" bit especially considering in the favourite genre thread 'indie/alt' had about as many votes as all the others combined. People's unwillingness to explore new genres is always something that is a pain in the ass.
This is what I feel as well... I actually skimmed through my old posts on the forums, to try and remember what exactly was going on back then.
And... I get being nostalgic about the "old days", because things were different, but I think they were different mostly because it was a smaller community than it is now. And there was this group of people who were of similar age, similar interests, and kind of dominated the forums, including hijacking most of the threads. So that was fun. But the ratio of stupid and useless posts (no pun) to smart and funny ones was pretty similar to what it is now. It's just that now there's more people present, more people are being useless (again, no pun intended) and contribute nothing - though it's been better lately - whereas previously this kinda stuff was done by fewer users.
I completely agree about music discussions. Were there ever deep discussions on the forums about obscure music artists? Was there a time where The Beatles, Radiohead, Pink Floyd etc weren't talked about? One of the first threads I participated in was "The Beatles vs Radiohead". The objectivity arguments were there even before my time here. You always got recs from specific users or through tournaments and you still can do that. And with more people present and custom charts being introduced (+ a lot more tournaments than back then), I'd say you have a bigger chance of finding something.
I don't know... I've had problems with forums a couple of months ago, when it was dominated by a couple of users on ego-trips, but now... Either they toned it down, or I don't give a fuck anymore. I just know that in GARY era or early Eggman era, a lot of this went around as well..
But what I don't like now (but what also came with the expansion of the site and the forums) is that more people are getting butthurt for some silly reasons, and there's more useless complaints and reports (pun intended). Maybe I shouldn't say this as a mod, because we're supposed to deal with this stuff, but... Little jabs at other users, using strong language in order to make a joke... Is this really so offensive to some people?
I feel perfectly fine with the forums. The only, very slight, problem I can see these days is that we're being a little bit too self-conscious about 'the forum'; how's it doin', what can we do, I apologise for what I said, please love me all the same, I hope I haven't ruined the forums, let's improve it, and the like. Let it just live, it's a good forum full of good people, no need for so much reflexion.
Then again, I don't mind this much. I'm cool with BEA, I love the site.
I feel perfectly fine with the forums. The only, very slight, problem I can see these days is that we're being a little bit too self-conscious about 'the forum'; how's it doin', what can we do, I apologise for what I said, please love me all the same, I hope I haven't ruined the forums, let's improve it, and the like. Let it just live, it's a good forum full of good people, no need for so much reflexion.
Then again, I don't mind this much. I'm cool with BEA, I love the site.
This.
Also, I liked the old days but looking back on my early days here I feel a bit embarrassed now so in a way I've kinda ruined them for myself ๐ซข
I feel perfectly fine with the forums. The only, very slight, problem I can see these days is that we're being a little bit too self-conscious about 'the forum'; how's it doin', what can we do, I apologise for what I said, please love me all the same, I hope I haven't ruined the forums, let's improve it, and the like. Let it just live, it's a good forum full of good people, no need for so much reflexion.
Then again, I don't mind this much. I'm cool with BEA, I love the site.
Agree. All that apologizing makes things so much more awkward. Just let it go! _________________ "The Beatles, the greatest band known to mankind." - Bismah Mughal
Yea for sure it's less "the forums suck" and more just me not wanting to have the same convos over and over. I still think this forum is too "indie rock" for my tastes but ya I guess it's pretty much always been that way
(Also I'm still here so obviously I don't hate this place. Bea is the shit )
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