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[arkin]

[Rajexico]

Last thing I need is somebody giving me an uptight lecture about how my criteria for enjoying music is wrong.

This perception was one of the single biggest hangups in those arguments... interesting to see it lives on.

There are a lot of other issues like rockism that could be discussed, the SOMB is just more of a society-and-recommendations board than a hammer-out-the-issues place like ILX or something.

[James D]

As much as I love music, unless I really really love something I'm rarely going to make more than 3-4 posts about it. This makes the most mega-threads pretty much a no go area for me. I can take the point of people criticising the metal thread, lonely end of the dancefloor etc as potentially alienating. But thing I like about those threads is that the topic of conversation so often changes, making it easy to contribute. I think people just need to create more threads about music that they're passionate about, because it comes across in their posts if they are.

[arkin]

This perception was one of the single biggest hangups in those arguments... interesting to see it lives on.

Well, truthfully it comes from both sides of the argument. I'm not going to get into it, I just think it's a silly argument to be had.

[throughsilver]

i'm pretty sure even the middle-aged bloggers have moved on from rockism vs poptimism by this point coming to somb in 2012: hauntology~~~!

[arkin]

that's why I'm okay with the music rec threads

[Badger]

i'm pretty sure even the middle-aged bloggers have moved on from rockism vs poptimism by this point

coming to somb in 2012: hauntology~~~!

it was here a while ago but no one took any notice.

[Saskadelphia]

As much as I love music, unless I really really love something I'm rarely going to make more than 3-4 posts about it. This makes the most mega-threads pretty much a no go area for me. I can take the point of people criticising the metal thread, lonely end of the dancefloor etc as potentially alienating. But thing I like about those threads is that the topic of conversation so often changes, making it easy to contribute.

The last thing I ever wanted the metal thread to be was alienating. I just didn't want to bombard the somb with thread after one-page thread about extreme metal bands. Anyone curious is more than welcome, discussions run the gamut, and the condescending snarkiness neophytes always dread is practically non-existent.

[Rajexico]

Well, truthfully it comes from both sides of the argument. I'm not going to get into it, I just think it's a silly argument to be had.

You're right, on second thought I suppose that could be interpreted as putting you on either side of the argument.

n/m

[Waylon]

The last thing I ever wanted the metal thread to be was alienating. I just didn't want to bombard the somb with thread after one-page thread about extreme metal bands. Anyone curious is more than welcome, discussions run the gamut, and the condescending snarkiness neophytes always dread is practically non-existent.

I'm afraid that I'll get a headache if I click on the thread.

[Slackmo]

As much as I love music, unless I really really love something I'm rarely going to make more than 3-4 posts about it. This makes the most mega-threads pretty much a no go area for me. I can take the point of people criticising the metal thread, lonely end of the dancefloor etc as potentially alienating. But thing I like about those threads is that the topic of conversation so often changes, making it easy to contribute.

The last thing I ever wanted the metal thread to be was alienating. I just didn't want to bombard the somb with thread after one-page thread about extreme metal bands. Anyone curious is more than welcome, discussions run the gamut, and the condescending snarkiness neophytes always dread is practically non-existent.

There's no room in metal for irony.

[Meldrick Lewis]

Wait, Voivod and Type O Negative weren't ironic? Damn, I got them wrong.

[Slackmo]

Wait, Voivod and Type O Negative weren't ironic?

Damn, I got them wrong.

Please confine your snarky metal comments to the metal thread.

[Saskadelphia]

[Huckle]

I'd have to say that the Metal thread is the most welcoming and friendly of all them. If you post a band people don't like, they might point out that it's not their cup of tea, but it's not like the Weezer thread, where one of the children was smacking someone down for liking a Weezer album that the child himself didn't like. In the Weezer thread. And the guy liked Weezer. But he just didn't measure up to the small boy's opinion, and he was literally ordered from the thread. It was the funniest, most pathetic thing I've seen since 2girls1cup.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

The "Metal Thread" isn't the type of thread that posters go in just to say, "Metal is gay," though. The thread is about sharing and discussing recent metal releases. And there certainly is a contingent of people who care about those things, and they fuel the thread quite nicely. People who don't like metal stay out of the thread. Dr. Jimmy isn't downloading the new Coffins record and saying, "Guys, this sucks." I don't think you can compare the inner workings of a thread about Weezer's Red Album with those of an all-encompassing "Metal Thread." They're completely different things. Besides, Honey Lingers and Helmet52 did have a hostile argument over the superiority of Neurosis vs. Isis.

And in all fairness, anybody who honestly likes fucking Maladroit should be banned from the internet.

[Mitchell]

In most people's cases the forum is quite good at not crapping on something without a well thought out criticism.

[helmet52]

Besides, Honey Lingers and Helmet52 did have a hostile argument over the superiority of Neurosis vs. Isis.

Yeah, but it was short-lived, petty (on my part), and we kissed and made up quickly.

Nothing but love for my Somb metal brothers.

[NewGrass]

but Neurosis IS superior to Isis

[petras]

Ya know if you take the original post in this thread....and you substitute the word "music" for pretty much any other subject known to man....you get a perfect description of 99% of the message boards on the internets.