[Bob]

The feedback forum must go. It is an error in planning, a misguided attempt to achieve I don't know what. Quite simply, it sucks.

What the feedback forum does: It creates an unnecessarily separate location for local musicians to receive critiques outwith the general melee of 'music discussion'. But what is 'music discussion' if not feedback of one kind or another? What is aberdeen-music's music discussion forum for, if not feedback on the music scene of Aberdeen?

If all things were well and good 'music discussion' would, by rights, BE the feedback forum. The feedback forum simply kicks local music and its concerns into a dimly lit corner of what is supposed to be OUR LOCAL music forum. It relegates conversation regarding Aberdeen's artists from the Premier League into the Vauxhall conference with one deft stroke.

"Yes yes, we have a local music scene, but don't worry, we've neatly swept that under the carpet!"

I suggest that by allowing local musicians to post up material for discussion in the busier music discussion forum they would receive more feedback and attention, and that the one remaining forum would become far more relevant to what this whole website is supposed to be about, "the music scene of aberdeen scotland".