elvirkan
Slightly Sellaband addicted
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Post by elvirkan on Jul 17, 2007 12:21:59 GMT
Is it holidays? or the official Forum ? it's very quiet here ...
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Post by Lucretia on Jul 17, 2007 14:29:17 GMT
I would put my guess on the official forum getting the attention. After all, many have commented that this place has never been the easiest of places to find, and now it's even less likely to be found with the official forum right on the doorstep.
The holidays don't help, but I doubt they're the major cause.
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Post by Hans de Mooij on Jul 19, 2007 15:27:12 GMT
Never had problems finding this forum and I loved it. But I must admit that the official forum is more used now by the common public. Cheers, Hans
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Post by docnik on Jul 21, 2007 13:25:27 GMT
I still like the unofficial Forum, perhaps there are no exhibitionists here. In the official forum some Believer or even Bands trying to get more attention as entitled to them (was this correct?). I am a still reader of both Forum, but this is the more interesting one!
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Post by WalterM on Jul 22, 2007 1:08:32 GMT
To let you know I still check this I have to admit my visits to the official forum are more frequent now and while in the past I tried to visit this forum several times a day it's now mostly at the end of the day and mostly reading. There's one thing that disturbs me in the official forum: the negativity by some believers and artists.
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Post by Lucretia on Jul 22, 2007 21:07:22 GMT
Negativity or caution? The next few months are a critical time for Sellaband to prove some level of success if it is to become a major force in the longer term. In some respects the timing of the launch of the Sellaband forum couldn't have been worse - with the first few artist CDs out, pretty much no statistics available to believers and other artists starting to think about WHEN they reach 50K rather than IF they reach 50K because they can now see actual CDs, it appeared at exactly the right time for all the questions that have been bugging people to get a very public airing along with any frustrations that have been boiling away in the background for a while. Get too much of that at once and what starts out as a reasonable/critical discussion, can easily be transformed into negative, particularly when others start picking up and agreeing on the topics discussed - you get an imbalance of the negative and the positive aspects as a result. The problem is, you're probably not going to get an awful lot in the way of positive threads until after Amsterdam when everyone's got their party stories and photos etc. to show off to try and balance things up again. We need that, we need some decent publicity for Sellaband and we need a believer flood like after Paradiso and people will start concentrating on the positive side of things again. From my point of view it's proved a blessing though - with all the "worry" posts out there, rather than on here, it's meant I've not needed to worry about wielding the fire extinguisher ;D As for the exhibitionists - I daresay if this forum had been easily spotted from SAB itself, you'd have seen 50 million "listen to me" band adverts over here. The rush of people wanting attention was always going to happen as soon as the official forum went live. I have to admit I am a little worried that they aren't running at least a "light moderation" scheme though - shuffling posts between the various areas of the forum and having a recognised person able to step in that can calm things down when they're getting a little too heated are things it has needed from day one, even if you don't slap a full set of rules on people, because that obvious link gives a lot more users and therefore more chance of disagreement and controversy.
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Post by chapter9 on Jul 24, 2007 10:35:13 GMT
Some few posts have been very negative and non-constructive, but I'm quite happy to see that most posts were constructive rather than negative.
When you've got a critic made, you can adjust and correct it. If there was no space for critics, maybe SAB people could not improve their concept, which would lead in the end to an end...
My 2p !
Cheers
Marc
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Post by WalterM on Jul 25, 2007 8:47:00 GMT
Constructive comments would be a good thing but what's happening now is just spreading negativity and bashing the sellaband team. Negative messages spread negativity, positive messages (and I consider constructive criticism worded in a positive way here) spread positivity. It's a simple truth we have to be aware of.
I wouldn't walk in a shopping mall where is fire in the house...Translated to SellaBand: new and existing believers that come to the official forum and see all the constant fire (questioning the concept, false assumptions and sellaband bashing) will not get a good impression from sellaband and it won’t stimulate visits to SellaBand further. It doesn’t prove a solid foundation. We are stimulating the fire instead of extinguishing it.
People are talking on the basis of assumptions and with some postings I get the feeling some posters are talking with an hidden agenda.
The whole thing just makes me sick.
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generalv
Slightly Sellaband addicted
The part watcher
Posts: 133
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Post by generalv on Jul 27, 2007 13:52:02 GMT
well, in my oppinion sellaband shouldn't change a thing (whell, not any new thing, they may change the site back to it's old settings I think the site is great and there should not be changed anything. The negative post at the sellaband forum are based at newly changed things.
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