A Music-Only Subforum

  LOL Alzado said:

I still like one discussion forum + ekt, the way it used to be. but, if we must have some sort of division between batcock and music discussion, than this:

 

  autopilot said:

I think the addition of a brand new forum would increase the clutter, BUT combining all the artist subforums + new & upcoming releases and making THAT the new "music subforum" would be the best course of action. (then with the live show forum as an offshoot of that). Then it'd basically be "Batcock", "Music", and "Your shitty dicking around in Ableton" forums.

then

  Joyrex said:

  chaosmachine said:

merge the artist subforums into a music forum. i think the concept of tagging that we wanted to incorporate can be solved more simply by people writing proper subject lines.

 

There's the rub; getting people to obey that would be difficult - I had thought about making custom icons for the topic indicators (post icons) to indicate what artist it's about as a visual indicator...

no need to enforce it, if it's a good idea, people will do it naturally.

also, i wouldn't preclude music topics from genban, let people decide where they want to post based on what kind of response they're expecting. in theory, the music subforum should gather a more on-topic response.

overplanning a community doesn't work. it's better to reduce barriers and let organic growth occur.

  chaosmachine said:

  Joyrex said:

  chaosmachine said:

merge the artist subforums into a music forum. i think the concept of tagging that we wanted to incorporate can be solved more simply by people writing proper subject lines.

 

There's the rub; getting people to obey that would be difficult - I had thought about making custom icons for the topic indicators (post icons) to indicate what artist it's about as a visual indicator...

 

no need to enforce it, if it's a good idea, people will do it naturally.

 

also, i wouldn't preclude music topics from genban, let people decide where they want to post based on what kind of response they're expecting. in theory, the music subforum should gather a more on-topic response.

 

overplanning a community doesn't work. it's better to reduce barriers and let organic growth occur.

it's just a diversion - joyrex is trying to make us forget about the vsnares sub-forum!

i wish general banter was still one with the artist subforums. i support some kind of merging.

No, I like to keep the fanboyism side of WATMM in the subforums. Having it in GenBan would just get cluttered and stupid real quick. Keep it the way it is now then remove cylob and plaid. Having the subforums creates a place for the dorks and wonks to nerd out and the people that hate that sort of thing can be left in peace. Merging them would create a lot of hate. Also the ongoing joke of boc forum would cease to exist.

no "music" forum, but a DMX Krew subforum would be the bee's knees.

WATMM

General Music Subforum

then Artist Subforums inside that.

Same way EKT is laid out really.

i completely don't care.

  loganfive said:

i completely don't care.

i say, teabag the forums... it's the only way to be sure!

  Caustic said:

WATMM

General Music Subforum

then Artist Subforums inside that.

 

Same way EKT is laid out really.

The old way was the best. If you merge the subforums into a general music forum, you're going to dilute GB even further, as presumably all music/artist threads would go there, not just featured artists.

One of the great Wattem threads was the Analord photoshop comp. If that happened now, it would be tucked away in a subforum.

*yek says sure*

General Banter

NSFW Banter

EKT/Gear

Music

New Releases

  JohnTqs said:

General Banter - Joyrex's news/kittens threads.

NSFW Banter - everything else

essentially amounts to this.

not worth the split.

I hate to say it but there is more to electronic music than the 8 featured artists on this forum so a general music chat sub would be good and a general music download section would be even better methinx!

at first i was tihnking no... but then I changed my mind. Though I'll probably never go there... that's what I enjoyed about general banter 'cause most of the stuff I find there I wouldn't have found otherwise.... I wasn't looking for it, just stumbled upon.

Hellz no.

  JohnTqs said:

General Banter

NSFW Banter

EKT/Gear

Music

New Releases

Without a sperate section for nsfw, i would fully agree

so basically joyrex, everyone is going to disagree no matter what you do, and it doesn't really matter. i'm touched that you even polled us.

  Capsaicin said:

  JohnTqs said:

General Banter

NSFW Banter

EKT/Gear

Music

New Releases

 

Without a sperate section for nsfw, i would fully agree

i think it could help with the mislabeling of NSFW threads

my 2 cents : the boc subforum is not getting enough oxygen and is demonstrating symptoms of brain damage.. for a watmm mk1 merge.

turn the "featured artists" forum into the "music" forum, but maintain the artist subforums within the "music" level forum.

much like how the "upcoming releases" subfourm is part of genban.

it's not like we're bursting at the seams and need to divide the content up. i can be barely bothered to click on the sub forums as it is.