Lol, jeez dude, chill. For someone who proudly displays a Buzzkill Brigade signature, you're mighty sensitive to having your buzz killed.
Because the Essentials pick is what put that on some people's radar.
I mean, what's stopping you from starting them? That sounds dope.
I'm not a dude.
You don't think a shoe forum might have separate threads for Nike basketball shoes, Nike soccer cleats, and Nike running shoes?
No, I see your point. However, that thread would go in the General Music & Vinyl thread where ones like Hip Hop and Jazz already are.
We have 5 out of 952 threads for VMP. I wouldn’t say we are being “drowned” in a sea of praise for VMP. Most of the threads still have people voicing legit criticism. I agree that I don’t see the point of reopening any of this to discussion.
Right. Can you imagine those threads if VMP “shills” started posting in those threads regularly?
I'd agree with this point. It's also confined to the "clubs" section. I'm of the viewpoint that has long as it isn't spamming the forum, there should be as many threads as topics people want to talk about.
Don't they? Or do you mean folks like Storf and Paulie actually coming in and shooting off?
I don’t really know. I think I meant if the VMP threads started being merged into other threads the voices of dissent may become a bit louder.
I tend to tag people in other threads if there’s either something they might be interested in or want to share something/ask opinions. I mostly stick to the jazz and BN thread, preorders, deals and some hardware threads as well as dip in and out of VMP threads. I don’t really go into VMP threads to try to promote other threads unless it’s something relevant. I think I just go into the threads that interest me mostly. If people are only interested in the VMP stuff that’s fine! I really like when people recommend music and or ask for recommendations. That’s been happening a lot in the jazz and BN threads and it’s awesome!
I'm pretty sure it would be a shitshow. The people who love VMP really love it. The people who hate it, really hate it. I don't think there is much of any functional common ground, other than everyone likes rekkids.
I just see them as a fun place to chat about each upcoming release. They seem to have LOADS of messages on each forum and I can imagine it being a nightmare if they were to be consolidated into one (ie the amount of topics being discussed at any one time would be a nightmare to navigate). In a direct response to your question, I guess the same could be said for the National / Cherry Tree forums, the Third Man / White Stripes forum, Metallica Record Club / Metallica forum, etc? The reason I contribute to each one is because im interested to gain as much insight and stories around each individual release on each track, and this couldn't really work as much if they were together imo.
That sounds like a great opportunity for that private business to run a forum of their own.
I almost bailed on this forum ten minutes ago, then I saw your posts here. We've never met in real life, but you are fucking awesome. We are friends, and you fucking matter to me. This forum is better because you are here.
At a surface and purely logical level you are absolutely correct. The problem is a philosophical one. This forum was put together because VMP decided to take a community that had been built and burn it to the ground. In that light, people who argue that promotion and discussion of that business should be limited to one thread here are not out of line, and I agree with them.
) non crappy threads and interact it’s worth it 