In some ways I agree with Bob - allowing local artists the chance to expose themselves (ummm....) should be pretty high up in Ab-musics objectives. People just don't read the feedback forum, instead concentrating on the discussion about bigger name artists in Music Discussion.
However, who's to say that if they two forums were amalgamated, people wouldn't just skip all the posts about local bands and just read the ones about the bands they like anyway?
I agree that perhaps the whole feedback thing does need an overhaul, but I don't know if merging it with Music Discussion is the answer. As tehe person above me said, maybe a ratings system would work, where a person could link to their track and allow a user to give it a rating say out of 5, and write a comment about what they thought of it - similar to the Boopoll on the front page (but without the obligatory ridiculous fourth answer).
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