I hearby review this bulletin board:

Obner is a very active community of true music fans, dedicated to alternately mouthing off & supporting each other on a variety of topical topics. It's friendly & welcoming, but just anwry enough to keep things interesting. And so... Me LOVES it profusely.


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And.. apparently I am the only one. [/i]

Missed this the first time.
I do agree. And it's good to have you here.

Dude, no one uses the reviews forum.

Your enthusiasm is appreciated--maybe I'll keep the place open awhile longer after all.











j/k you guys

Oh great- now I'm the big loser who ventured into the Reviews forum. Stupid! Stupid!

I'd have to give it probably a 7.5 out of 10.

Some intelligent posters, some hilarious posters, good mix of current world/entertainment news, indie music news, music discussion.

But too often overshadowed by assholes and the tearing down of other people's tastes. Also, the music is a bit formulaic. If you've been here for a while, you know automatically what albums are going to get long threads and which ones won't be mentioned at all.

Welcome back dude. I bet one of the longest music threads of last year is about Joanna Newsome

Not to hijack this thread for whining, but what bothers me most about the board lately (and by lately I mean forever) is the ongoing feuds. It's one thing to call someone an idiot for something they said right then (not that this is great either), but now we have a lot of pairs of boarders who hound each other (or sometimes it's one-sided) constantly, even when the "target" didn't do anything "deserving" in the specific thread in question, and it's really annoying.

I'm surprised I haven't acquired such an arch-nemesis yet (well, besides kphaley454), though it is pretty easy to hold a grudge against people I've never met (as evidenced by this post).

Precisely the reason I left in the first place. Half the threads were people bitching about a lack of music threads, yet I'd start a music thread and just be given shit by people for no reason other than a seemingly personal vendetta. At some point you just say it's not worth it.

The thing is you're both examples of boarders who don't mind throwing in a bitchy, condescending post, but then you get shocked when someone is bitchy and condescending back to you. Man up.

And if you're going to leave, have the courtesy to LEAVE.

First of all, I never said I was leaving. Not sure where that came from.

Second of all, I wasn't talking about condescending posts, but about ongoing fueds, and I specifically said that I wasn't the target of any of the feuds. Bitchy, condescending posts are the way of the board. Fine. And I've certainly participated.

But that's different than, say, the hyper-annoying Monty-nickisnotdead feud, where it seems like Monty would attack nick for saying the sky is blue.

I really didn't want to start naming names, but I had to in order to explain what I was talking about. It's all your fault Rads! I'll hate you forever now!

It IS all my fault. I accept that. And the "leaving"' comment was directed towards Alongwaltz (er, I mean, rock paper).

But I dunno - that Monty-Nickisnotdead feud was simultaneously annoying and totally awesome. Easily some of the strangest posting I've ever witnessed and, therefore, worth encouraging. Ditto all board feuds, IMO.

That's true, there have been some amusing moments. As there often is whenever Monty opens his mouth (figuratively). Perhaps I need to rethink my position.

Damn, wrong again.

What's Monty's username now anyway?

I never know until I hit the unnecessary adjectival clauses.

Hey, whaddayaknow, adjectival really is a word. I thought you were making a funny.

I think there is a difference between criticizing an album or an artist and criticizing an obner's taste. Criticizing an album should always be fair game and there are a lot of obner's who are terribly oversensitive to people taking shots at bands they like. There are a lot of these same people (not looking at shmoo or alongwaltz in particular) who are happy to make fun of "regular rock" bands or mainstream acts but will bitch to the high heavens at any joanna newsome or radiohead joke or attack. I find the hypocrisy to be especially annoying because its only those of us who make fun of the indie sacrosanct bands that get called out for being mean.

I do think it though that alongwaltz was unfairly attacked some in his ongoing thread where he'd listen and post comments about his whole collection. It's one thing to critique an artist, its another thing to repeatedly attack someone's taste. Still though, man up, who cares what some stranger on the internet thinks. I often disagreed with your taste and comments, but I think that it was one of the better threads on the board. At least it was music related and more than a list or a ysi request.

Good thread.

Somewhat ironically, it turns out that Deleted User was the best username that dude came up with.

Did he quit the board again?