blog backlash

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
well the real Kosmo Vinyl and sometimes Clash manager can be seen on the London Calling 25th anniversary CD/DVD combo. i merely stole his name because i thought it was cool..

Wait. You're not the Clash's manager? Son of a bitch! Can I get all of those fan letters I sent you back please? Oh, and please don't tell anybody what I wrote - it could be a bit embarrassing for me.

even if there is upgrade to a better system, having seen the utter shite used on other forums, i will lobby long and hard against signatures and avatars. they only clutter things up, just go to one of those freeper sites and tell what you think of such addtional features. it makes me want to hurl…

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
well the real Kosmo Vinyl and sometimes Clash manager can be seen on the London Calling 25th anniversary CD/DVD combo. i merely stole his name because i thought it was cool..

Wait. You're not the Clash's manager? Son of a bitch! Can I get all of those fan letters I sent you back please? Oh, and please don't tell anybody what I wrote - it could be a bit embarrassing for me.

well my advice to you, is never run for public office… :p

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
but probably not any more so than this place …

i was including this place ;)

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
even if there is upgrade to a better system, having seen the utter shite used on other forums, i will lobby long and hard against signatures and avatars. they only clutter things up, just go to one of those freeper sites and tell what you think of such addtional features. it makes me want to hurl…

Cheers to that. The UBB system is still the preferred system of Smackie. I recommend it to all of my clients - it's much more professional.

You want avatars - head to the HFSTival Forum.

Originally posted by vansmack:
The 9:30 Forum is my blog.

Ditto. I actually tried a music and politics blog for me and my friends as we were having full discussions via email among a group of 10 - 20. It didn't catch on.

I stay here 'cuz I most want to know about local music stuff….and the loonies are so loonie!

As for this DCist, DCeiver, it's a benefit that they inform folks who find the 9:30 Club forum 'ridiculous' off of our forum. Glad to know they won't have reason to come around.

I'm not sure about the tickets.com information issue as it is public, and we had a good thing going for a while, but what good thing ever lasts (I'm in a dismal mood these days, forgive me).

If we were talking about the posting of pre-sale passwords, that would make me nuts. I won't even email them to friends as I don not want to see them re-distributed. A PM here and there, perhaps.

Then again, the emergence of pre-sales as a common sales tool is getting ridiculous and out of hand as well. Sends folks freaking out that they didn't get tickets during the pre-sale "are there no more tickets, am I s.o.l.?" It's gotten crazy.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
even if there is upgrade to a better system, having seen the utter shite used on other forums, i will lobby long and hard against signatures and avatars. they only clutter things up, just go to one of those freeper sites and tell what you think of such addtional features. it makes me want to hurl…

The signatures are WAY annoying, more so than the avatars to me, because the avatars are at least bounded within a specific and limited space. Some folks put friggin' book chapters in their signatures….blech.

Now, question – is there a particularly useful and informative DC blog? I'm thinking if so, it's DCist…..?

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
and i did come to realization that this forum has been my long running blog, which is why part of me would like to pull out important bits for the sake of history. blogging before blogging was cool :p

while we're having this meta-discussion … why don't we upgrade this message board to a better system? i want a fucking britney spears avatar dammitt!!!

Hear HEAR !

Originally posted by Bags:
Then again, the emergence of pre-sales as a common sales tool is getting ridiculous and out of hand as well. Sends folks freaking out that they didn't get tickets during the pre-sale "are there no more tickets, am I s.o.l.?" It's gotten crazy.

I blame the user for that though - not the pre-sale. If people would just stop for a second and take some time to listen to what people have to say about pre-sales, there wouldn't be as much panic.

It's all part of this knee-jerk reaction generation due to the speeds with which information is travelling these days. Googling has replaced doing research and people have just stopped being analytical. I question if folks are even thinking anymore these days. Forums and Blogs have given people places for anonymous bitching. Do you think these people would be bitching this much if it were in public?

Originally posted by vansmack:
Do you think these people would be bitching this much if it were in public?

I would (and still do)

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:

Originally posted by vansmack:
Do you think these people would be bitching this much if it were in public?

I would (and still do)

You'll outgrow that.

Originally posted by vansmack:
You'll outgrow that.

thanks, oh wizened sage.

seeing as i was the one who wrote the original DCist thread, i figured i should say a couple of things here:

1. why is everybody freaking out? there are still tickets available, as far as i can tell. i presume by the time i had posted that information, most "real" fans had already bought their tickets.
2. if there is really a concern about ticket scalping, maybe you shouldn't be able to buy 10 tickets at a time.
3. i'm sorry, but i can't really stomach the thought that only certain people should be allowed to know the particulars about a show or sale, so as to not "ruin" it for the rest of the fans. who gets to decide who these people are? i didn't post the info to ruin the show for the "true" fans; i did it so as to let any DCist reader who happens to be a bright eyes fan but isn't super-clued into the internet know that they could get tickets.
4. in regards to somebody on the forum calling blogs insular and creepy…pot, meet kettle. as far as the incestuous part, i have no idea where that's coming from.

-DCist catherine

Originally posted by pablohoney:
in regards to somebody on the forum calling blogs insular and creepy…pot, meet kettle

I don't think you'll find anyone here who disagrees! ;)

Originally posted by pablohoney:
who gets to decide who these people are?

I do. Where have you been?

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
thanks, oh wizened sage.

I'm just going to start referring to you as "Meat"

Originally posted by pablohoney:
4. in regards to somebody on the forum calling blogs insular and creepy…pot, meet kettle.

1. in regards to somebody from dcist telling somebody on the forum an abbreviated version of an age old adage:

"that's what i was referring to … it's very insular, very incestuous, and, like you said, a bit creepy … but probably not any more so than this place …"

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
thanks, oh wizened sage.

I'm just going to start referring to you as "Meat"

you're creepy. and insular.

Two great tastes that taste great together.

I'm not freaking out about it… I was merely suggesting that bringing out the pratice into the open will lead to it being shutdown quicker. I also did my usual crap job of defending my stance.