Reunification: A tale of two forums or "How I learned to hate the Feedback Forum" - Page 2 - aberdeen-music

Stripey · 23-09-2007, 17:33

I agree with Frosty Jack. If you look at most other forums of this nature they all have a seperate sub-forum to post tracks in for feedback. If you were a local artist/band releasing a new recording up for sale or whatever, I would post it in the music discussion forum.

Perhaps the solution to Bob's problem is to have a box on the front page of the site with links to, for example, the 5 most recent threads in the feedback forum.

23-09-2007, 19:54

if users were allowed to choose whether the feedback was local or not

maybe an icon displayed beside each post

and a link to show only local or non local

soundian · 24-09-2007, 08:20

I never actually looked at the description for the feedback forum before and I can see where Bob is coming from on this. I can't see why he thinks it's in any way harming discussion of local music though, nearly all the posts (on the first page at least) are people who've put up tracks hoping to get some sort of feedback, which is what I thought it was for and what I think it should be restricted to.

The more I think about it, having a ratings system would be a good idea on that forum.Most of the threads have very little in the way of feedback in them and I think that 50 3/5's will say a lot more than 50 people not bothering to type "that was ok" or "nae too shabby".

Chris · 24-09-2007, 08:58

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Originally Posted by soundian

I can't see why he thinks it's in any way harming discussion of local music though

I think his point is that in the music discussion forum hardly any threads are about local music, this is the fault of having feedback in a seperate forum. While in ye olde days of this site, aubl, lithium or blind youth boards the majority of discussion was about local bands.

It's a fair point and one I was thinking about it the other day. As someone else said it could just be that with myspace and bebo a lot of that kind of thing has been taken offsite.

soundian · 24-09-2007, 09:26

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Originally Posted by Chris

I think his point is that in the music discussion forum hardly any threads are about local music, this is the fault of having feedback in a separate forum.

If there isn't a lot of local music discussion in the music discussion forum we can hardly blame it on the feedback forum for diverting the posts away because they're not there either.

Jake Wifebeater · 25-09-2007, 12:24

These days, negative feedback has a weird habit of being erased from threads so there's no point in leaving any, unless it's "Wow, that's awesome, you guys are great". This does nobody any favours.

Chris · 25-09-2007, 12:41

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Originally Posted by Jake Spike

These days, negative feedback has a weird habit of being erased from threads so there's no point in leaving any

Only if it's unconstructive, abusive nonsense or dredging up past conflicts.

Frosty Jack · 25-09-2007, 13:02

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Originally Posted by Jake Spike

These days, negative feedback has a weird habit of being erased from threads so there's no point in leaving any, unless it's "Wow, that's awesome, you guys are great". This does nobody any favours.

Bollocks. I challenge you to name a thread featuring negative feedback that has been deleted purely for being so.
I've had a trawl through the last few months and the only thing at all that I can find that has been deleted by a mod is the frankly pathetic 'feud' between spike/squad and MMW. None of which had anything to do with feedback.

Bob · 25-09-2007, 14:10

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Originally Posted by soundian

If there isn't a lot of local music discussion in the music discussion forum we can hardly blame it on the feedback forum for diverting the posts away because they're not there either.

The point is by removing the majority of local music discussions from the main music forum the website architecture actually diminishes the importance of local music, decreasing traffic specifically to those areas. As a result, the numbers of posters contributing to aberdeen-based music discussions are eroded.

25-09-2007, 18:32

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Originally Posted by Frosty Jack

Bollocks. I challenge you to name a thread featuring negative feedback that has been deleted purely for being so.
I've had a trawl through the last few months and the only thing at all that I can find that has been deleted by a mod is the frankly pathetic 'feud' between spike/squad and MMW. None of which had anything to do with feedback.

Thats quite hard to do since the "offending" content has been deleted...