Let's try and get 1,000,000 replies to this post

[LooseCannon]

Some band forums have a VERY strict rule saying not to bring threads off topic. This place could really use that rule.

If there was news, I'd be all about it. But there's nothing.

 

[Mosh]

And that's the thing, once a single drops or reviews start pouring in that thread will get itself back on track. At least for a few days.

 

[Yax]

That's so hard to enforce though. Personally I don't think it's a big deal. For better or worse, threads are naturally going to take different twists and turns, especially with the new album craziness. Just let it happen and the place will calm down soon enough.

I take issue with forums modded too strictly. Forcing posters to always stay on topic inhibits the conversation, period. And what good is a forum without conversation?

 

[Night Prowler]

I take issue with forums modded too strictly. Forcing posters to always stay on topic inhibits the conversation, period. And what good is a forum without conversation?

Stay on topic, please

 

[Perun]

We've gotten a lot better. A year ago, every on-topic thread we had no matter how serious would descend into excessive silliness at some point. We might have been throwing a collective tantrum because of the lack of a new Maiden album.

 

[Saapanael]

The masses were starved. We live in different times now.

 

[Night Prowler]

Rode bike for the first time in years. Did 15km in 1,5h

 

[Perun]

MA dissertation final count:
60 pages
24.184 words
195 footnotes
71 pieces of cited literature

 

[LooseCannon]

MA dissertation final count:
60 pages
24.184 words
195 footnotes
71 pieces of cited literature

3 years of labour
42 mental breakdowns
1953 beers consumed
1 Perun, MA

 

[Perun]

That is quite accurate, yes.

 

[SixesAlltheway]

I did feel bad for new posters when their threads turned into spam threads after a few replies...That used to happen a lot here


Congrats @Perun!

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Are new posters barred from posting in this thread or something?

 

[Brigantium]

I think it took me a good few weeks to realise my crap would be at all acceptable, even here.

 

[Perun]

I guess most new members don't realise the meaning this thread has on this board.

 

[Brigantium]

Yes. What was it, again?

 

[Perun]

It's our looney bin.

 

[Ariana]

I'm not sure it's because they don't realise that. I can tell you my experience - it took me a long time to start posting here. This thread feels like the forum's party - people know each other, drink, and talk crap, as Brigs put it, and to me, as a new member, if felt like if I joined the party without knowing anyone, people would stare, nudge each other, and think of me as an intruder. So I guess most new members just wait till they have established their presence here, mostly in the Maiden Chat, before they join the party.

 

[Brigantium]

^This

 

[Perun]

So what do we do about that?

 

[LooseCannon]

I'm not sure it's because they don't realise that. I can tell you my experience - it took me a long time to start posting here. This thread feels like the forum's party - people know each other, drink, and talk crap, as Brigs put it, and to me, as a new member, if felt like if I joined the party without knowing anyone, people would stare, nudge each other, and think of me as an intruder. So I guess most new members just wait till they have established their presence here, mostly in the Maiden Chat, before they join the party.

This was true in 2003 when I joined, and it is true now.

So what do we do about that?

We could start linking people to it when they first show up, saying that "the best way to invest in the forum is to participate in this thread". Assuming we want the status quo to change.