I hope it will NOT turn another Chondritic Sound.
I have already been thinking what kind of measures to take about sections. My primary interests is discussion and seeing thoughtful enough comments, recommendations, etc. For years, I've been so bored with constant spam from every direction. Big words about releases what clearly mean nothing.
When you check out for example "noise" section, first page.. is there.. 3 discussion topics? And like 50 topics advertising some releases to buy? And, Over here, it is nearly the same. Among 50 release announcements, you can find just handful of topics among "discussions". I mean, as simple topic as "best of the average", would be essential to list very good noise worth to check out. But no. Neither here and especially not in Troniks, nobody will name names. Instead, there is the 50 sales topic appearing.
Tommy C from Abisko/Segerhuva used to run that Post Mortem list. And decided to quit it in moment when it functioned 100% as means of promotion. Every message was the same, as the message of Whitehouse list or some other list/forum.
I know hearing about new releases is vital, but I hope it doesn't happen on expense of suffocating all the potentially interesting discussion what hardly can be found when being mere 2-5% of the posts? I have thought what would be the necessary measures taken. At Chondritic, there's nothing I could do even if I supposedly moderate one section. At here, luckily, it's all in my hands, with hardly any need of democratic decisions, heh.. I recall Doomed Forever has the policy, that advertising is for those who take part of the forum. Was it 100 real posts gives you right to use it for advertising? Over here, I merely introduced the "spam junkyard" where old ads will end up after they've been on main forum for a while. This keeps discussion messages easier to find, yet any old ad may be found with using search or going to junk yard section. But if we see flood of people, who's only motivation is to create income, exclusively self promote, etc. I hope they do have the courtesy of using "classified" instead of discussion forum, which hopefully would be as it says: discussion. If you hear good releases, don't hesitate to contribute. Playlist topic, best of average, canon of pe (!), or even own topics. I'm interested about customer & journalist feedback and well as artists "liner notes", but hardly interested reading another pompous label sale pitch from release that isn't worth damn ;)
