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| quote: | Originally posted by stevö
if you read those quotes that i posted and have half a brain you can see what this rant is really about. its about these "little douchebags" and "stupid little nobodies" and "little wack parties".
THATS IT. thats ALL its about. its about you not knowing anything about the person and assuming bad things about them / insulting them. its about STATUS and ELITISM. you may say its about board participation but yet you also make the comments i quoted, comments that make me doubt your true character and motive because they are contradictory / counterproductive.
meeko doesnt conversate on this board ("contribute") so therefore he is not worthy of posting an event thread. its unfortunate that probably a lot of people here will find nothing wrong with that statement and pat mcgroin / mellymel etc will probably get their way.
the thing thats really fucked up about it is, in your mind, an event thread should only be by an established artist or production company, OR by a nobody that spends a lot of their time conversating on this board.
well, let me put it this way, the current system which is you need to be a "somebody" to create an event thread, otherwise if you are a "nobody" you need to file it away in a big stickied thread ... is wrong and doesnt work and will never work. why? obviously if you want to get your event some exposure you would rather put it somewhere more visible. and when you see other "somebodies" posting their own threads then its easy to guess what the "nobody" will do. and you make it worse when you tell them they havent earned their right to post because then they just look at the others and ask why are they worthy? there are events posted by people that practically never post but they are worthy to have their own thread because their events are known to be good or they have been around for a while.
you see, its a catch 22: you dont post much because you're busy throwing events, but you're also not established / a big name, so how can you get to either level? you cant because you're stuck, because this place is only for a small group of friends (that conversate often) to advertise to each other their own parties (beach bash) or tell each other about a big name that's comin to town. the problem is theres a whole ton more people on here that lurk, this place gets a lot of traffic.
its not done this way on any other forum that i know of and for good reason: because it nurtures an elitist snob culture which is exactly what the EDM scene needs to get away and distance itself from.
its sad that is the culture we have come to, its been a slow depressing backwards evolution of thinking on TA over the years, "forward thinking" is not a term anyone should associate with TA. there is nothing good progressing from the collaboration of minds here anymore. its degraded into an endless cycle of snarky comments and recursive ego battling/stroking by people with big mouths and small ears.
someone go ahead and do the correct democatic approach which is have a vote. but i have a feeling i know what the results will be.
P.S. Meeko and I technically are competitors, we dont ever collaborate |
while I agree with a lot of your points because you've actually stated them in a constructive manner, it still doesn't change the fact that its still spam. just because some people need their mortages refinanced, or need larger penises, or want free xxx hot anal pornstar sex, doesn't mean I should have to look at that bullshit everytime I check my email. Atleast there I have a spam filter I can use.
Its not about being elite. I am one of the few people who have continued to care about this board over the years. Whenever wmc rolls around I answer every noob question I can. Check the archives if you don't want to believe it. So its not about that I don't know meeko or full on. Hell I don't know riotgear and have only met kaenow once where I didn't even say much to him. But they don't bother me because they aren't using this board soley for their own benefit.
I could of simply sent manny a pm about all this and maybe he would of done something without having to go through all this, but I posted this thread to see how others feel about the subject first. Even check a few posts up, I said if everyone feels different then I'll let the issue die.
Our opinions obviously differ, and I agree a vote should be started, but I don't think enough people have voiced an opinion yet. Creating a vote where no one knows the issue and people just blindly vote on is a retarded idea imo.
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