IMPORTANT BOARD PROBLEMS... I need your thoughts!!!!!!

[MARKEG]

Well for anyone that read the 'Club Experiments' topic, this is what I said after Ryan and I conflicted on a certain problem (read the post first if you didn't!!!). Jackstar (one of our original members) made a damn good point about what could happen to our board if we're not careful. It really made me think. So here's my reply:

'Spot on Jackstar...

this topic is gonna be closed. i don't like where this arguement is going and it's up to admin (ie me) to stop anything that begins to deteriorate like this. all i know is that i didn't like ryan's comments on 'shoddy trance' and i don't want this -ve ity about other styles of music used again in such a flipant way. it's so distructive. icons, or no icons.

i'm not joking here. it's a rule of the board and i made it for a reason.

actually ryan, i did start a post saying 'I'm a tech-houser and I am gay'. you've actually made me realise that i shouldn't have posted this based upon my own rules and i will not be posting stuff like this again. in fact, i'm gonna delete it. you've brought it to my attention and it'll help me improve the forum (believe me guys - it is hard to admin a forum). in fact, i'll be looking out for rule breaking now a little bit more. the member list is getting quite big and unfortunately i'm going to have to start watching out for bad -ve ity more than i ever did.

i haven't banned anyone in all the time this board has been up and running but i will have to consider it if this happens again. someone's gotta be on top of stuff here. -ve -ity and pointless arguements are not why i spent ages learning php to get a community going. it's not why i enjoy waking up in a morning to read what all you guys have said and it's not why i'm doing this. quite simply put, get lost to another board if you wanna argue about pointless crap. this board is about underground music no matter what genre.

ryan, i'm not getting at you, i'm just saying if you wanna slag off passionately made trance/house/hip-hop/grunge/ etc etc, i think we need do it somewhere else. i love having you on this board, you've had so many great things to say, but i don't wanna read shit like this. i really don't.

anyway enough crap from me...

i need everyone else thoughts...

[Adverse]

i don't think it was that serious. i was actually going reply in thread to the effect that i thought that it should be locked before it did get out of control. alas.. mark eeeeeeeee :) proper action.

[Addict]

I bet Ryan feels like hes been CourtMarshalled now. This might have been taken a bit too seriously Mark but they're your rules and you've got to put your foot down...

That's probably whats gonna make this forum different though...

Carry on...

[MARKEG]

yes, proper action. that's the first time i've had to step in and do something EVER i think!!!

i don't think it was THAT serious looking at it today (over-reaction is something i've been quite good at recently!!!) and ryan, i'm sorry i've been like this with you, but i'm sure the point needed addressing. if one of our original board members steps in and points out that the board could deteriorate into a slaggin parlour, then there has to be something wrong somewhere.

anyway. hope everyone understands what i'm getting at.

[miromiric.]

but can we still write that techhouse is crap and give proofs for our statement? :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Anonymous]

I've no problem with what's happened. It's no big deal. I took issue, others took issue, and now here we are.

Just another day in the office............



8)

[MARKEG]

but can we still write that techhouse is crap and give proofs for our statement?

that's funny

[Esox Lucius]

just a quick one, what do you all class as tech house?

are you talking stuff like, get f*cked, terry francis, eddie richards etc? that`s what i class as tech-house.

[Paul Nisbet]

Agreed, im ah member of a big mags chat room, and it was totally ace when it first started a few years ago, but the admin let topics spiral out of control ie

There was a proposed fight on the board, they were gonna both meet up and get it on.

The board is now diveded into them and us, and all that rubbish.

Other djs slag other djs - out of order.

and one member who is now banned, sat up all night postin the same topic for about 7hrs. totally cloggin up the board.

Boards like this one are good, it would be a shame to see to go down the pan (which arguing eventually leads too), as the people who u respect and come on to read what they say will disapear, which is wat happened on formentioned board.


Although it gets to the point ah dont want to post in the tech section for fear of a good bitch slappin, i enjoy to read wat a lot of u guys ave to say, and being so young and just at the start of a djin journey i come on here to be educated in a way. I have no shame in admitting that.



Its all about the journey and discovering what your into, it takes time.

[Esox Lucius]

well said paul.

i go on the trance forum and get no hassle, so people of the trance forum should be able to come on here with no hassle.

[MARKEG]

god, yeah, we defo don't want fights on here....

we just need to keep it as friendly as possible i reckon...

and well said mr tech funk

[Paul Nisbet]

well said paul.

i go on the trance forum and get no hassle, so people of the trance forum should be able to come on here with no hassle.

Yip, dont post much on the tech, cause if im honest, im not as clued up on techno as ive only been playin for about a year and a half (on decks for 2yrs) and im into my trance and hardtrance/style big time too, but i have trouble gettin techno in edinburgh, as Prime are havin trouble distributin,as i have been lead to believe, and on the net, ur not a hundred percent sure until uve hammered it thru the system.

But im new here, and as i said earlier thats why i come onto this site, as ur all welcoming, and some of the people on here are the most clued up people i have ever seen/read??? lol.

[lunatrick]

I agree with moderating the board as long as it doesn't get too out of control. As Paul (Jackstar) said the overload board gets stupid at times, and newbies who post about their site or night sometimes get ripped to shreds, which I personally wouldn't like to see happen here....

[wenna]

one of the reasons i love the forum and visit EVERYDAY is because of peoples knowledge of equiptment. i.e i ask what the best mixer to go for is and bam! i now love my allen and heath mixer. and also because every one posts cool mixes. :)

[Patrick]

god, yeah, we defo don't want fights on here....

we just need to keep it as friendly as possible i reckon...

Agreed, we don't want fights, but there's got to be room for reasonable discussion otherwise there is no purpose to this, or any other forum. We're not the Mutual Appreciation Society after all.

And in the interests of balance, having now read the thread in question, I'd say you did over-react a bit there Mark imho, but you've acknowledged that, so it's cool.
So did you have a sense of humour failure ? Bad comedown ? After effects of too much wife-beater ? Painters in, were they ? :lol: :lol: :lol:

[MARKEG]

i think the fact it was a monday should explain a few things

[Anonymous]

Agreed, we don't want fights, but there's got to be room for reasonable discussion otherwise there is no purpose to this, or any other forum. We're not the Mutual Appreciation Society after all.

Absolutely spot on.

[wenna]

im in MUTUAL agreement! :)

[MARKEG]

point taken. it's just how do you know the limits, based upon other boards mistakes? for sure, i created this board cause i wanted to chat with cool people, but if there's serious extra hassles and i don't enjoy being a part of it, then what's the point of me doing it??? that's what scares me might happen down the line and that's why i've made a few very simply rules that i really want to stick to if i can.

when people slag off other styles or dj's in normal life, it annoys me like CRAZY, so why should it be any different on the internet. it's the same with pointless arguments that have digs at people for no reason. i hate this! in fact, it probably annoys me more on the net cause i know people hide behind a computer and write it.

i know we're not the mutual aprreciation society and i think serious discussion is gonna get us real far on here, but there really are plenty of boards out there that you can have digs at people, make people feel small, winge about dj's and slag of music styles.

i know i'm gonna come across as being a complete C*NT sometimes, but i just want this to be a cool, easy going place for ppl to hang out.

[Patrick]

Sounds like my kinda place. I can be cool ! 8)