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I feel this topic should be in The Lounge...
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Like Johnny said, nothing can be done until the Vbulletin upgrade, but I still think all the pointless official threads need to go.
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You guys are ridiculous. You're making a huge deal over something so extremely pointless. I know that's ATRL, and that's how ATRL is, but seriously, just take a step back and look at what you are arguing about.
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Member Since: 9/15/2007
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Originally posted by Tibbits
Just to prove how ridiculous this is getting, let's take a look at who has OFFICIAL threads on JUST THE FIRST F.UCKING PAGE of the Main Music Forum.
Hilary Duff
Flo Rida (not to mention I saw a thread talking about a new song of his RIGHT ABOVE THIS ONE)
Nicole Scherzinger ( - this album isn't even coming out anymore)
Paula Abdul
Jesse McCartney (this thread has one poster!)
Janet Jackson (Going for flop #3)
Colbie Caillat
Asia Cruise ( )
Taylor Swift
Rihanna
Raven Symone ( )
Jordin Sparks
Alicia Keys
Ashlee Simpson
Danity Kane
Day 26
Ashley Tisdale ( )
Brandy
Leona Lewis
That is 19 - count 'em 19 - official threads on the first page; and that doesn't even count the Britney, Mariah, Avril (MOST USELESS THREAD EVER), and Chris Brown ones I've seen. Also, there's some like that Alicia one where the only updates are when "Like You'll Never See Me Again" moves up one spot on the BB Hot 100 to #12. Please -- we can see that in the Hot 100 thread. Honestly, the only artist who I actually agree with having an official thread is Britney because there is news about her almost everyday. Things like album art and such can be posted in the Photos section.
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STFU. Any artist can have an official thread if they want. And the Duff thread gets enough posters since they're are multiple fans of her here, same with Alicia, Ashley, Danity Kane, Raven, and Janet.
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Kevin just threw a temper tantrum regarding his Jesse thread. Man he is obsessive! He needs to not be a crybaby
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I've said it in the past that there are too many official artist threads, and this just pisses me off even more. Ok so Jesse McCartney had a big single, BIG ****ING WOOP. By your logic, then anyone who had a big single should be allowed to have an official thread. That means that we shouldn't have any news threads, but instead we should have around 20,000 official threads. Why do we have Britney, Avril, Christina, and Rihanna threads? Because there were too many stories that were clogging up the forum so one thread was made, not because they were big. A Jesse McCartney thread is unnecessary. Until he becomes as huge as the artists I mentioned above, we don't need a thread for him.
While I'm on the subject, I think that we don't even need official threads for that many artists. Most of them turn into blabbering ********, talking about how great the artist is or random "*Artist* was seen at Starbucks, let's have an orgy!" crap. IMO there should be official threads for these artists: - Britney Spears
Rihanna
Christina Aguilera
Avril Lavigne
Amy Whinehouse
Chris Brown
These artists actually have a lot to talk about (Amy Whinehouse has a lot in her life so I'll let you guys have that). No other artist at the moment deserves their own thread. I think maybe what there should be is a few general genre threads. For example: - General Rock
General Pop
General Disney
General R&B
General Rap
This would at least move the discussion part and show who actually deserves their own thread. The music forum is **** right now and it's impossible to find anything. Hopefully something does get done about this problem.
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General Disney!!
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Yes General Disney, it makes sense. That way we can keep stuff like HSM, Hannah Montana, etc. in 1 thread and not a couple of band threads.
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Don't get me wrong, I *adore* the idea of a General Disney thread.
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1st of all who the hell is Asia Cruise? anyway my opinion, I think it's the mods decison whether or not they feel like the main music forum is overcrowded with official thread, if they feel this way, then so be it, I don't mind if they start deleting some of the threads, but I think with the big artists like Britney for example, really needs to stickied, I mean that thread is always on the 1st page, never goes to page 2.
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ATRL Senior Member
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Originally posted by ATRL
You guys are ridiculous. You're making a huge deal over something so extremely pointless. I know that's ATRL, and that's how ATRL is, but seriously, just take a step back and look at what you are arguing about.
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Amen, sister.
I could give a **** less about the tons of official threads in the music forum. I don't go into them, so they don't bother me. The end.
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Originally posted by I'm Designer
Amen, sister.
I could give a **** less about the tons of official threads in the music forum. I don't go into them, so they don't bother me. The end.
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You go into mine.
Then again, I don't fill them with unnecessary ********, like some people (AVRIL LAVIGNE?! Oops.)
Tibbits, Anthony, I can see where you're going with this, but you lose: Shade has the right idea.
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Originally posted by Johnald.
You go into mine.
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Yes, well, yours have music that I care about. That could be why.
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LMFAO AT 'GENERAL DISNEY'!! I'm dying here!
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Originally posted by Reeces1
but I still think all the pointless official threads need to go.
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I say get rid of some but not all the artist threads, just lose the artists that came out like a year or two ago (IMO keep the Sara one since she's red-hot right now and lose the Jesse, Brandy and Paula ones too)
What I'm saying is keep all of Johnny's, the Ashlee, Ashley, Avril, Christina, Rihanna, Alicia and Britney threads, and that's it.
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Originally posted by SHADE 45
I've said it in the past that there are too many official artist threads, and this just pisses me off even more. Ok so Jesse McCartney had a big single, BIG ****ING WOOP. By your logic, then anyone who had a big single should be allowed to have an official thread. That means that we shouldn't have any news threads, but instead we should have around 20,000 official threads. Why do we have Britney, Avril, Christina, and Rihanna threads? Because there were too many stories that were clogging up the forum so one thread was made, not because they were big. A Jesse McCartney thread is unnecessary. Until he becomes as huge as the artists I mentioned above, we don't need a thread for him.
While I'm on the subject, I think that we don't even need official threads for that many artists. Most of them turn into blabbering ********, talking about how great the artist is or random "*Artist* was seen at Starbucks, let's have an orgy!" crap. IMO there should be official threads for these artists: - Britney Spears
Rihanna
Christina Aguilera
Avril Lavigne
Amy Whinehouse
Chris Brown
These artists actually have a lot to talk about (Amy Whinehouse has a lot in her life so I'll let you guys have that). No other artist at the moment deserves their own thread. I think maybe what there should be is a few general genre threads. For example: - General Rock
General Pop
General Disney
General R&B
General Rap
This would at least move the discussion part and show who actually deserves their own thread. The music forum is **** right now and it's impossible to find anything. Hopefully something does get done about this problem.
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I agree with this. That's brilliant.
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ATRL Senior Member
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Shade for president!
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Why Winehouse and Brown specifically?
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Because one is a TRAINWRECK and the other is Rihanna's BOY TOY.
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Mike STFU. Have you noticed that nobody gives a damn about your useless entries?
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