HeartlandGirl
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
As a frequent poster in Bang and Clatter, I have made a few observations lately. Two things are happening in the forum that I feel are hurting it.
1. People are posting incessantly in various 'theme' game threads, such as "song title chain," "band name game," chains about covers songs, and various offshoots.
2. Lots of threads about the same band are being created in duplicate, and threads are being merged or really needing to be merged.
My theory is that all of the game threads are bumping the true 'music discussion' threads off the front page at a pretty quick rate. Thus we end up with 500 different threads for The Killers in about a month's time.
So here's my suggestion. Can we get the game threads out of Bang and Clatter? Perhaps move them to a separate forum for this kind of thing? (Maybe you could even move the chat chain threads out of LS to this forum too.)
A fair number of us are in Bang and Clatter all the time to really talk about music, not just play tons of games and up our post counts. A lot of threads about cool bands are getting bumped into oblivion by these game threads, and I think that's unfortunate considering it is a music discussion forum, not a forum about band names or song titles. And for what it's worth, quite a few people posting in those chain threads hardly ever post in the rest of the forum. It doesn't seem they are there to talk about music with the rest of us.
I would say, however, that the one exception to this would be the 'now listening' thread. I think that thread generates a lot of genuine music discussion. Although I could do without reading five consecutive pages of songs by the same person all the time.
I'm eager to hear what Elvis and the mods think about this, or some kind of compromise.