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Best Forum/Worst Forum by Entropy Stew 08/03/2003, 11:08pm PDT
Specifically, Best/Worst electronic music production forums.

In the Best position, we have the Computer Music/Future Music forums and in the Worst, Serious Sounds. FoK has to look at CM/FM because of its incredibly high signal and level of technical expertise, and everyone else has to look at the horror that is the SS forum. It's like 6 ubb forums of differing configuration multiplexed into one gigantic creeping horror of useless features.

Here's a repost* of my SS breakdown from CM/FM, in case the original is deleted (I have no clue what the moderation policy is over there).

Entropy Stew wrote:

I have to agree with the haters out there - that forum one of the worst I've seen on the net. The S/N ratio over there is about .05 before you even get to what people write. Porno gif avatars and mile-long sigs. Rococco site design and bloated forum features. Why do I need some damn pseudowinamp streamer on every forum pageview? Why does a 2 sentence post take up half of my goddamn screen at 1280x1024? Do I give even a passing thought to what your YO MY SHIZZY SHO SHIZ RESPIZZECT MY SIZZELF level is? You might as well add add a "last bowel movement" timestamp to the post header - it would probably add more functionality than all the other crap you have displayed.

Then there's the people. I've read through quite a bit of the FL forum and you know what I found? The aforementioned lesbian porno avatar (the hallmark of intelligent discourse everywhere), guys using the forum to distribute warezed copies of FL, and a plethora of questions that could be answered with the press of the F1 key and minimal application of reading TFM. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people asking questions, but when even the upper echelon of the technical bell curve start to make my neophyte ass look like the Fruity version of JOBU (!), I take issue.

Then there's the moderators. You allow warez distribution via your site citing "freedom of speech" (this could easily get your site yanked off the net in the US, though I don't know where you're hosted from), then toss dopamine into the alley when he takes issue with it? Sounds more like freedom not to disagree with a moderator.

All in all, your site has the appeal of two shits in a biscuit. And you can't spell (no, the irony of my grammatically incorrect usage of 'And' in this sentence is not lost on me, so you can stow the proto-retort forming in your head right up your ass. It won't even have to move very far).


-/ES/-

*Background info needed to understand the JOBU reference: JOBU is a walking encyclopedia of musical knowledge over at CM/FM. I am firmly conviced his nervous system communicates via MIDI messages.
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Best Forum/Worst Forum by Entropy Stew 08/03/2003, 11:08pm PDT NEW
    Re: Best Forum/Worst Forum by Bill Dungsroman 08/04/2003, 12:03am PDT NEW
        JUEVOOOOOOOOOOOS NT by Entropy Stew 08/04/2003, 12:14am PDT NEW
    Arrrgh! by Fullofkittens 08/04/2003, 3:20pm PDT NEW
        Re: Arrrgh! by Entropy Stew 08/04/2003, 10:18pm PDT NEW
            The mac/pc argument... by Fullofkittens 08/05/2003, 1:08am PDT NEW
                Re: The mac/pc argument... by Entropy Stew 08/05/2003, 3:04am PDT NEW
                cubase.net by Fussbett 08/05/2003, 3:48am PDT NEW
    Re: Best Forum/Worst Forum by FoK 08/11/2003, 10:17pm PDT NEW
        Hahhah..hah...HAHAHAHAHAHAH! NT by Entropy Stew 08/11/2003, 10:23pm PDT NEW
            You sick bastard. NT by FoK 08/11/2003, 10:25pm PDT NEW
            One real question about it... by FoK 08/11/2003, 10:28pm PDT NEW
                Don't ask, don't tell by Entropy Stew 08/12/2003, 4:37pm PDT NEW
                    Sucker. by FoK 08/12/2003, 5:22pm PDT NEW
                        Being a software developer colors my perspective by Entropy Stew 08/12/2003, 7:40pm PDT NEW
                            I sympathize. But, like Michael Stipe, I'm addressing the realpolitik. by FoK 08/12/2003, 8:22pm PDT NEW
                                Yeah, completely agreeing on the overpricedness by Entropy Stew 08/13/2003, 3:20am PDT NEW
                                    One thing with FL by fag packet 08/13/2003, 9:05pm PDT NEW
                            Re: Being a software developer colors my perspective by Lizard_King 08/13/2003, 11:23pm PDT NEW
                                Re: Being a software developer colors my perspective by Entropy Stew 08/14/2003, 12:46am PDT NEW
                                    Re: Being a software developer colors my perspective by Lizard_King 08/14/2003, 1:01am PDT NEW
    Since I don't read POE anymore. by FoK 08/14/2003, 12:31am PDT NEW
        Yeah, that guy is a 12 foot queefboat out trawling for gay dick -nt- by Entropy Stew 08/14/2003, 12:42am PDT NEW
            ADMIT YOUR MUZAK HAS NO GOING POWER NT by fag packet 08/14/2003, 8:42pm PDT NEW
        Motherfucker! NT by foogla 08/14/2003, 4:01am PDT NEW
        Could be worse. by Lizard_King 08/14/2003, 4:15am PDT NEW
            Retinas...burning...AIDS... NT by Entropy Stew 08/14/2003, 6:01am PDT NEW
                Dude that site won a major webby 2-3 years back. That's new to you? NT by Senor Barborito 08/14/2003, 9:31pm PDT NEW
                    Oh, of course not! I ALWAYS keep track of the Webbys! by Entropy Stew 08/14/2003, 11:01pm PDT NEW
 
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