Utter bullshit, Loomis. Every other forum on the board, and every other music discussion forum on the internet, can withstand and indeed would suffer without the possibility of the majority of people being critical of or negative about the subject of a thread.
Also in the category of "bullshit" is your attempt to suggest that there is a general hive-mind consensus majority of "cool kids" in the Music forum who personally mock people who like music they don't.
Easy for you to say, since you are one of the cool kids doing it. It’s easy for the one benefitting from the power dynamic to deny that anything is taking place.
This is your thread. You asked for why people don’t post there more often. If you’re not interested in a reason why a lot of less hardcore music fans don’t post there, then don’t ask the question. Don’t try to invalidate a problem I have with the forum by denying that it takes place. I see it all the time. If someone doesn’t like your music then they’re rockist and haterz, but when you don’t like something it’s somehow self-evident that all right-thinking people agree with you. I’m surprised you haven’t yet thanked all people who agree with you. You are a very vocal and opinionated poster and you are either being disingenuous or you simply don’t realise the power a few loud voices can have in creating a culture of what music is cool and what isn’t.
In any case, I’m only flagging this up as a small observation. It’s not a huge thing, but it’s something I notice sometimes and particularly today with this thread. I’m not saying that the comments there were aggressive. I know that they were more in the nature of piss-taking. But when the very first reply to a thread is “They are, though, really, the worst band in the history of the world”, made by a well-respected and prolific music poster, I think it’s at the least irresponsible and not likely to lead to your stated aim of increasing traffic.
A lot of people are a bit timid about talking about tastes that they feel might be mocked. Not everyone is as confident as you, and you can’t even see the “cool kids” thing because you are one of them and your comments in that thread are just one example. And just to clarify, I didn’t mean that you mocked people but mocking a band isn’t exactly going to make that person want to speak up, or start a thread on a band that might receive a similar first reply.
Again, this isn’t a huge deal or an attack on the forum, but you asked for opinions so there you go. |
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