The Way to Fix MS from Becoming Old

[Dhar_2]

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it has slowed down on here. and tomtom has put it very aptly. I remember when you would miss a day on the board and have 2 pages of new threads to wade through.

tbh with you i prefer it here and being twittered or facebooked about whatever you are doing.

[Kat]

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I love MS and in my opinion its getting better all the time. I never thought i'd be a member of any site for so many years.

MS

[nick007]

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I have found this to be a very informative thread.
Being in SA it is hard for me to get into major discussions on what music is out there, who made it, producers, mixing machines - cd vs vinyl vs laptop and the latest release from the dj's most of us like.
Hernan's renaissance master series arrived 3 months after the UK/ USA releases and I think the thread was on page 6 before i could give my opinion (example).
Another reason is, I got into EDM rather late in life (37) so sort of missed out on the radical years of party, music, clubs and drugs.
Had I discovered EDM I may have known a bit more to be able to contribute to certain threads in the forum.
Bottom line: I love music, I love this forum for introducing me to a wide range of talent and even tho I don't post lots of "intellectual" posts I read most of the threads to soak up other peoples knowledge and talent they present in the forums.
Most of my 3000 post are made up of the megathread nonsense posts but still I feel like its the only forum on the world wide web that I feel like I belong.
MS Rocks!!

[chuckc]

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tbh with you i prefer it here and being twittered or facebooked about whatever you are doing.

i agree, to me fb is kinda lame. i dont get the facination, same with twitter.

but low paticipation in yakity yak is easily offset by the wonderful work pickle has done to easily manage the music and djs u like with the sets and topics that surface. i still do believe there is alot of disucssions epecially in the promos discussing and anylizing sets............... still suprised no one started a vagabond thread review, wth happen to sakio

[Garrick]

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i miss steve (jibs).... he always kept this forum entertaining. on a related note, we've had a ton of members who were on here for a loooooong time that aren't as active or MIA now. seems like most of the new folks go straight to the promo section and if that's the only thing they're interested in, then that's fine. i don't want to force them to talk to me.... no disrespect to those new folks that do associate in GYY, i just miss the familiar names from the old days who made the GYY much more interactive.

chuck, great point about pickle's work too. thanks to him, it isn't as necessary to post music-related stuff in GYY. agree 100%!

[runningman]

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I understand what you are saying TomTom but I had to post to get in. Many of us had to post to get in back in the day. We will attract people that want to be here. I would rather have 5 registrations per day as long as all 5 posted comments and thoughts. That is the key to the successful board not just people who sign up and rape the promos section.

Facebook and twitter can't compare to MS because MS is global strangers talking to each other. Twitter and Facebook is basically for people who are already friends talking. You can't meet new people on FB or twitter. And if you do it probably is a bad idea(Stalker..).

I still think we should go back to the old post rule

I never thought I would say this but MS needs some glow stick waving, Tiesto loving, young meat.





I agree with you feather. We do need to be more accepting of others thoughts (and I include myself in that statement) rather than so quick to the draw.

[Shpira]

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[chuckc]

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rm u musta not been a member in the real old dayz (prior to the crash). back then i dont remember having a req post count to dl sets, i just remember having to retrive a password to dl digweeds kiss set, which was all that was available on the main dl, besides an ocassional ms special set,

if my memory serves me correct, luke fair did a few of those back in the first generation of ms.

[Garrick]

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and our leader's name was encryption...

[runningman]

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Ya I was here for that. But either I didn't know what I was doing or I just didn't know where to look. Back then I was computer retarded. The password to me was from posts no? You couldn't get the password without the posts.

Ya encryption! Who was that? How do you remember that stuff Garrick? Good work!

[Garrick]

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encryption is kamal.

[Corven]

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back in the days people lurk on soulseek as well

[chuckc]

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and who can forget the first beenzncheeze

[floridaorange]

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I think the people who jumped on RM's case (including me) are sick of the blame game. It's obvious how to keep MS from being old:

Doing what Pickle has been doing for months, revamping it. Doing what lots of members have been doing for months, adding to the DJ Database. Continuing to improve the site is something that at least in my mind has been a constant. Other than that, CONTRIBUTION

[floridaorange]

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I think the part of that reason why you saw some of the members jump on RM's case about this thread is because it is a recurring theme with him: Focusing on problems without any real solutions.

This is a forum where the individuals make it what it is. If you don't contribute to the promo section, the dj database and ALL of the other sections, then guess what? You don't get to complain about what MS is and what MS isn't because you don't have a grasp on reality obviously.

This thread is kind of a smack in the face to the moderators, the regular contributors who post in all the sections and give of their time toward the actual purpose of the site, which is by the way THE OPPOSITE of POLITICS. Politics is alienating by nature, music brings people together. It's also a smack in the face to Pickle and the members who have made the DJ database what it is. I see MS as a constant work in progress and to suggest that it is getting old is counterproductive. If you have a real concern or BETTER YET an IDEA as to how to implement some kind of changes, why don't you send the mods your ideas, or make a donation.