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I'm checking out the em411 front page. 3 blog postings about music topics. 2 postings promoting released music. 5 postings about other rubbish. This signal-to-noise ratio is not good enough.
As em411 is a community about Electronic Music, I have attached to this post a picture of me holding a small animal.
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Adjective
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nagrom
this has been happening for a while.
you can do something about it.
start interesting topics.
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Otterfan
Not a big fan of the "blog".
The "empage" was better.
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mlbot
nagrom said: "
you can do something about it.
start interesting topics."
Sigh, can't somebody ELSE do it for me?? ;)
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dach
> start interesting topics.
I've done what I can. And I've been pretty quiet about all the off topic stuff for a while now. I mean, some bit of community is of course welcome, but the electronic music side of things is about to become the minority. That's rather depressing. Why people find it necessary to voice their irrelevant opinions in the wrong place is a mystery to me. I'm just trying to draw attention to the fact. If the em content drops even further, I am worried that people who come here to read and contribute em content will go somewhere else. And that'd be a shame, cos the site is really friendly and nice. Why can't the community parts occur in the comments where it belongs? Whats wrong with livejournal if someone wants to air their political views? everything in its right place and all that.
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Squeal
The forum is still good.
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Otterfan
Really, there should be no blogs.
Blogs offer not much. Why a blog? What should go in a blog that should not go in a forum? Including the chat forum.
Unfortunately, posting something as a blog guarantees it will be on the front page for 24 hours or so. Therefore, people will post to blog instead of the chat forum because they think that whatever it is they want to write about is important enough to be on the front page.
I don't get this "blog" thing.
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Otterfan
My strategy (and it has been this way since the empage was born) has been to ignore everything but the forums.
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mlbot
sounds to me you've put your non-music-related rant in the right place: the blogs.
Unfortunately, the blogs take up 95% of the front page space.... Fortunately, the blots exist for everyone, so all that non-music stuff can go here and keep the music forums about music.
Plus there's the whole releases section-- you could listen to people's music and comment there. People find that helpful, this isn't just a new mp3.com
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mlbot
Otterfan said: "My strategy (and it has been this way since the empage was born) has been to ignore everything but the forums."
How's that workin' for ya, OF?!?
I, too, think the blogs are a distraction, but I think its a necessary evil to keep the noise out of the forums. Necessary for me, at least.
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dach
I think there's nothing wrong with the blogs, it's just the things that people write about that is in need of improvement. If people waited with posting blog entries until they had something interesting to write about, em411 would become the hottest music related magazine ever. Write music related articles, and not your diary.
I'd like to suggest something to people about to post a blog entry. Ask yourself if the entry is not only interesting to you, but also interesting to the whole electronic music community that read this site.
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celibacyclub
i thought this was about noise music.
what a bunch of non music related crap.
;)
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Ochre
Yeah, I have considered posting off-topic blogs in the past knowing it would get far greater page views than posting in the off-topic chat bit, but then decided against it. I've only posted two web logs, both about me and my music spammage (well plus one hardware prob, but I've deleted that now). There's only so much news that goes on in the average bedroom musicians' lives - if it were all on-topic there'd be 10% of the posts there left (not to presume too much, I'm sure most folks have more interesting music blogs than mine, just not enough to fill and replenish the site continually).
I know it's very fashionable in today's net culture to put an emphasis on 'me me me' blogs, but I think the forum should have more space devoted to it on the front page (I feel it got a raw deal in the makeover), and judging by the topic turnover in the forums, less sub-forums. By all means keep the blogs, but I think with 80% of the emphasis on blogs, the forums really suffer.
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Fredo
dach said: "I think there's nothing wrong with the blogs, it's just the things that people write about that is in need of improvement. Ask yourself if the entry is not only interesting to you, but also interesting to the whole electronic music community that read this site."
perhaps you should write a blog about what the qualifications are that make a blog "interesting to the whole electronic music community". Sounds like a tall order, or a fascist fantasy.
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Ochre
dach said: "Why people find it necessary to voice their irrelevant opinions..."
That's this new and shiny web 2.0 for you. The internet used to be 95% pr0n, now it's full of teenage bloggers posting what they ate for breakfast, along with a youtube vid showing them eating it.
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