How is the Pop Punk Forum doing? / Forum improvement suggestions thread

[Gnarmageddon]

I stole this idea from Nick. Hope he doesn't mind. It seemed to work well for Punk though. :wave:

I've noticed lately that there isn't very much activity outside of our community thread, and I believe that this needs to change.

So first, rate how you think the forum is doing right now on a scale of 1-10. Vote what you think, we're not worrying about feelings here.

Then provide some suggestions of how you think we could make the forum better. What could I do to better the forum? What kinds of threads could be made to lure people away from just the community thread?

Don't be afraid to throw anything out there. I've got an open mind for improvement.

[chumpradio]

I give an 8. The forum is doing great, but we need more active threads. Most of the active threads just have old discussions such as Blink and Green Day, or are spamming, like the band name game thread.
In my opinion, we should orgaise some sort of debate thread if possible, or I'd be willing to sort out some better threads.

[Surtr]

I give an 8. The forum is doing great, but we need more active threads. Most of the active threads just have old discussions such as Blink and Green Day, or are spamming, like the band name game thread.
In my opinion, we should orgaise some sort of debate thread if possible, or I'd be willing to sort out some better threads.

We've tried that one, and it didn't work so well, but I agree I'm totally for a debate thread of some sort.

[Mute Print]

I'd say somewhere around an eight.

The forum is pretty much free of spam, all of the users are really cool, and there really aren't any problems.

Really, the biggest thing for me is that many people are too lazy to post in threads that require any sort of thought, such as Forced Listening. There isn't anything that can be done about that though.

Also, a debate thread would be fun, but as I said, many people seem to shy away from threads involving any thought/writing.

[Surtr]

I'd say somewhere around an eight.

The forum is pretty much free of spam, all of the users are really cool, and there really aren't any problems.

Really, the biggest thing for me is that many people are too lazy to post in threads that require any sort of thought, such as Forced Listening. There isn't anything that can be done about that though.

Also, a debate thread would be fun, but as I said, many people seem to shy away from threads involving any thought/writing.Well..I'm banned from Mx by my parents..and have been for the past 4 months (Don't want me talking to strangers)..so whenever they're around I'm not able to post. I'd be totally in for doing stuff like that though if I could find the time.

[Untitled]

5

I dunno why, i guess its the lack of good pop-punk bands that people talk about. I dont want new ****y "emo" pop-punk scene stuff, i like some of it yes, but whatever happend to good old fasioned raw pop-punk? Funny lyrics, up beat tempo, and the general feel that the band dosnt care much about things, newer emotional stuff is realy starting to do my head in.

Thats nothing to do with this forum, or the forum peoples, id just rate it higher if there was more discussion of, what i see as truer pop-punk bands.

[The_Red_Death]

I gave it a 5. The only thread I really see with much activity is the community thread, which I've never really gotten involved in. Granted, Pop-Punk has a smaller group of regulars than the bass forum where I spend most of my time. I'm not entirely sure why, but this place always seemed to have a lot more activity and interesting threads back when I was new to the forum.

Actually, come to think of it, I should have at least given a 6, as the people here seem to be really quite helpful and kind.

[Sod the neighbours]

/rancid dan

Sorry for posting but i don't lurk i just took a tiny peep and i saw this.

I'd say 3 atm, one of the reasons i'm not really gonna post anymore much/at all is because i find it boring and not enought to talk about, not enought good threads, not enough people willing to do stuff etc.

Anyway, see ya in a few months.

[chumpradio]

/rancid dan

Sorry for posting but i don't lurk i just took a tiny peep and i saw this.

I'd say 3 atm, one of the reasons i'm not really gonna post anymore much/at all is because i find it boring and not enought to talk about, not enought good threads, not enough people willing to do stuff etc.

Anyway, see ya in a few months.
Sure you don't lurk, Dan. Sure...

[Permanent Solution]

Eh, to be honest this forum is pretty dead. No one's really discussing anything. But it goes through cycles, and sometimes it's like this, sometimes there's tons going on so you can't even keep track. I'm not worried.

[Dead Star]

I gave it a 7.

We need more dicussion in here than in our Community Thread, although my band thread has brought up some. We also need to keep band threads alive for more than say, a week.

[Firecracker]

I can only give it a 10, because it's the only place i go, (like 90% of the time), and it's the only place i feel welcome.
And the topics aren't so bad either.. :)

[ChodaBoy]

7

We need to start stealing ideas from other genre forums!

Also, almost everyone on the forum would agree that PP is the most friendly place on MX. Maybe thats not always a good thing. Come on people, get controversial so we can e-kill each other!

[Gnarmageddon]

Eh, to be honest this forum is pretty dead. No one's really discussing anything. But it goes through cycles, and sometimes it's like this, sometimes there's tons going on so you can't even keep track. I'm not worried.
The highest amount of people viewing Pop Punk I've seen was around 25.

Bringing back the Non Pop Punk Band discussion threads again would be a good idea.

Adam: Hahaha.

[Firecracker]

It's a beautiful place.
And I 123 on the non pop-punk band thing.

[Permanent Solution]

The highest amount of people viewing Pop Punk I've seen was around 25.

Bringing back the Non Pop Punk Band discussion threads again would be a good idea.

Adam: Hahaha.
Exactly, it's a small place.

Brian and I already do those sort of :-\

[Dead Star]

I would make one of those.

:)

[Gnarmageddon]

Exactly, it's a small place.

Brian and I already do those sort of :-\
Yes. Your threads are nice. They are more of introducing people to new bands though. Non Pop Punk discussion threads are more of the equivalent of someone making a normal band thread, just not about a pop punk band.

[Permanent Solution]

Yes. Your threads are nice. They are more of introducing people to new bands though. Non Pop Punk discussion threads are more of the equivalent of someone making a normal band thread, just not about a pop punk band.
Well exactly. Most people here don't listen to a huge variety of music so we have to introduce new bands. Of course the point is to listen and then discuss but most people don't seem to do that...it's more a "I like this band, already listen to them" or "Hey good job guys." Not many people seem to try em out :-\

But I don't see the point in actual band threads about non-Pop-Punk bands because as is, if I want to discuss said band, I just go to the forum where I'd class them to do so. Usually gets more discussion there too.

[Gnarmageddon]

And in response, tumbleweeds make their way across Pop Punk.

[Surtr]

And in response, tumbleweeds make their way across Pop Punk.
:lol: I love that word..Tumbleweed..:amaze:

[Mute Print]

Brian and I already do those sort of :-\
Yup, and then they get 8 replies before dying. :)

[Permanent Solution]

Yup, and then they get 8 replies before dying. :)
Haha, yes...so doing more won't do much to spark new life here I don't think. :-\

[Mute Print]

No, but I still enjoy doing them, so whatever.

Forced Listening was fun, but it died after about a week.

I'd definitely be a part of a debate if we had one, but last time it died before it even really started, from what I remember.

[Jom]

You guys love my articles right? :-*

Pop-Punk gets a 9 from me. Sure, you guys are slow, but you guys always make me feel welcome, and the same applies for any other person who visits. Plus, you guys like my articles (when I had time to write them :upset:).

If you guys have more ways of discussing pop-punk, I'd be inclined to visit more than just in the community thread, posting in articles, and reading the stickies.

[Mute Print]

Your articles were great Jom.

[Gnarmageddon]

More please, Jom.

[Ross]

While the people are great, the problem is lack of actual discussion.

5

I dunno why, i guess its the lack of good pop-punk bands that people talk about. I dont want new ****y "emo" pop-punk scene stuff, i like some of it yes, but whatever happend to good old fasioned raw pop-punk? Funny lyrics, up beat tempo, and the general feel that the band dosnt care much about things, newer emotional stuff is realy starting to do my head in.

Thats nothing to do with this forum, or the forum peoples, id just rate it higher if there was more discussion of, what i see as truer pop-punk bands.

Couldn't agree more, but I thought it was better than a 5 :p Emotional pop-punk is ok, but frankly boring if that's all people sing about. I want songs about how great your new girlfriend is, how you think pizza should be cheaper, or that really funny thing that happened last week in college.

[ChodaBoy]

With the occasional line about farting

[Permanent Solution]

No, but I still enjoy doing them, so whatever.

Forced Listening was fun, but it died after about a week.

I'd definitely be a part of a debate if we had one, but last time it died before it even really started, from what I remember.
When did we restart FL's?

Yeah, debates don't seem to fly well in here.

Jom: Write more articles sexi.

[Gnarmageddon]

There isn't much to debate about.

[Untitled]

This thread is all the debate we need !!

[Permanent Solution]

Psh, there's always something we can debate. Genre definitions, "best" ____, influence, etc...

The only issue is moderation of it and participation. This forum is lazy.

[Untitled]

Im not laz

:yawn:

[Dead Star]

Jom, your articles were the man.

[Ross]

With the occasional line about farting

123.

Only in pop-punk :D

[ChodaBoy]

The problem with debating here, is that most people who are regs, are more interested in hardcore/emo bands. And therefore the talk ends up with non pop-punk bands.

[B]

I give it a 4, I feel the community here is great, but to be honest, ever since the YSI thread was killed and taken off mx completely it seems this forum is in a downward spiral of boringness.

There seems ot be a huge lack of things to talk about here.

Hence why I did what I did.

[Dead Star]

The problem with debating here, is that most people who are regs, are more interested in hardcore/emo bands. And therefore the talk ends up with non pop-punk bands.

I'm not.

/Would participate in debate

[Jom]

Part of it is the stereotype that this forum's users, for the most part, are younger than, say, the users you'd find in PN&WI. If I see a 15 year old throwing around the diction that that forum uses, I'll be stunned.

But the thing is, I wouldn't want that, anyway. Most pop-punk is supposed to be fun stuff, right? I mean, come on:

Well another bad day's gone by, another day of being angry
Never known a person who could spend so much time being mad at me
And I didn't mean to get here late, my car ran out of gas
Ad then a freight train crashed into the road and I had to save the people
Didn't think you'd get so mad, but here we go, here we go again

Her face cramps and she makes a frown, then she makes a whiney sound
Then it won't be long till I get knocked down, well oh no, here we go again
And I know you didn't get your way, and now I guess you want to fight all day.
I better watch out what I say, well don't look now 'cause here we go again

Well I'm glad that you calmed down, never thought I'd ever see you smile
After your head spun around and you spit all that green stuff out on me
No, I can't go to the mall - that really sucks, you know how much I love to wait
While you change again and again and again and again and again.
Didn't mean to let you down, but here we go, here we go again

Well, I'm really sorry that I made you mad again
That doesn't really mean I'm sorry
Cause it's really not my fault that you're over reacting
Here we go, here we go again
Here we go, here we go again!

I'd rather see fun things like that rather than lyrics about antidisestablishmentarianism, authoritarianism, and authoritativism.

[Mute Print]

When did we restart FL's?

Dan restared them while you were gone, but the thread has since died. Basically, it was Dan and I going back and forth, with someone else rarely stopping in.

[Ross]

Woo go Jom!

Millencolin - Fingers Crossed

Cheesy pop-punk, that I love. Yeaah.

[Dead Star]

Part of it is the stereotype that this forum's users, for the most part, are younger than, say, the users you'd find in PN&WI. If I see a 15 year old throwing around the diction that that forum uses, I'll be stunned..

I could.

I just prefer being immature.

[ChodaBoy]

I'd rather see fun things like that rather than lyrics about antidisestablishmentarianism, authoritarianism, and authoritativism.
:lol:
Precisely (sp?)
Pop-punk to me is all about being immature. And trying the Neverland effect of never growing up

[Ross]

Maybe Michael Jackson would have been even more successful in a pop-punk band?

*patents idea for a song*

[Dead Star]

I think the Forced Listening died when YSI links were made illegal.

Its a bit annoying waiting on adding someoine on an IM, then asking them to send you one song.

[Permanent Solution]

The problem with debating here, is that most people who are regs, are more interested in hardcore/emo bands. And therefore the talk ends up with non pop-punk bands.
Eh, true. Most guys here aren't huge into Pop-Punk, such is the issue being a community like we are. I personally love Pop-Punk though. :)
Dan restared them while you were gone, but the thread has since died. Basically, it was Dan and I going back and forth, with someone else rarely stopping in.
oic...shoot. I'd've participated. Unfortunately if that was the case, with Dan being gone it won't be much different.

Jom: Yay me being almost the oldest one here :-\ I use elevated diction here occassionally but I don't feel the need to be pretentious to get respect here. PNWI almost requires it sometimes which is a little lame to be honest.

[Jom]

I use elevated diction here occassionally but I don't feel the need to be pretentious to get respect here. PNWI almost requires it sometimes which is a little lame to be honest.

Yeah, agreed. I don't think anyone needs to impress people with a thesaurus-like vocabulary. It just makes you pretentious, as you said, and look funny. And everybody makes fun of the goofy-looking kid.

Speaking of goofy, I made a 10+' tall snowman yesterday. It's male and definitely well-endowed. Check it out, everyone! It's taller than a one-story apartment :-D

Well-endowed snowman ITT (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/frozeninshadows/000_1685.jpg).

It was so much work pushing the snowballs.

[Ross]

*writes a song about it*

[Dead Star]

Yeah, agreed. I don't think anyone needs to impress people with a thesaurus-like vocabulary. It just makes you pretentious, as you said, and look funny. And everybody makes fun of the goofy-looking kid.

Speaking of goofy, I made a 10+' tall snowman yesterday. It's male and definitely well-endowed. Check it out, everyone! It's taller than a one-story apartment :-D

Well-endowed snowman ITT (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/frozeninshadows/000_1685.jpg).

It was so much work pushing the snowballs.

Jeez Jom, what age are you lmao.

[CommieCanada]

id give it a 7 because really i only post in community thread

[Permanent Solution]

Yeah, agreed. I don't think anyone needs to impress people with a thesaurus-like vocabulary. It just makes you pretentious, as you said, and look funny. And everybody makes fun of the goofy-looking kid.

Speaking of goofy, I made a 10+' tall snowman yesterday. It's male and definitely well-endowed. Check it out, everyone! It's taller than a one-story apartment :-D

Well-endowed snowman ITT (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/frozeninshadows/000_1685.jpg).

It was so much work pushing the snowballs.
Yes. That's the real reason people make fun of nerds. They are too awkward trying to emphasize their intelligence.

That penor is more detailed than the rest of the snowman. Now Jom I know you claim you're striaght and all but...

O:-)

I like how he doesn't even have a face, but he has a huge wang.

[ChodaBoy]

I see a face.

Well, theres a huge smile...

[Jom]

Yeah, he has a reason to be grinning like that (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/frozeninshadows/000_1683.jpg).

Personally, we're proud of how representative the snowman is to human anatomy, where one testicle hangs lower than the other.

That's not me getting ramrod'd by the way. I took all the pictures.

[Permanent Solution]

Yeah, he has a reason to be grinning like that (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/frozeninshadows/000_1683.jpg).

Personally, we're proud of how representative the snowman is to human anatomy, where one testicle hangs lower than the other.

That's not me getting ramrod'd by the way. I took all the pictures.
lolz, unless that's just the lighting you guys even made sure he'd been circumsized.

So much unnecessary detail, but I'm glad you had fun hehe. I missed snow the entire time I was in CO! :( It snowed the day after I left.

[B]

That picture rules Jom.

[Untitled]

Another problem this forum has is that it is to easily distracted from the origional subject matter <.<

But thats a lovly snowman Jom. keep up the good work :thumb:

[B]

Yeah but the distractions are what's fun.

[Jom]

On Sputnikmusic, whenever the flow of conversation of a review/album/artist gets completely sidetracked, it's not hard for me to delete all the posts and get things back into the proper flow of things. Sometimes off-topic posting is fine, but I refuse to let it get carried away on Sputnikmusic because a small number of the regulars (who are the biggest spam whores, consequently) there have the capacity of being really freakin' stupid.

[ChodaBoy]

It would be easier to see what hasn't been done before (and therefore could be done), if the vBulletin search function worked well. Searching a query can bring you the most irrelevant posts/threads.

[Gnarmageddon]

You are my hero, Jom.

[CommieCanada]

aint got nothin' on the snow mold of MY HUGE WANG (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/CommieCanada/381671988_l.jpg)

[ZaaR]

8, the only reason I come here is for the community thread, and the other little threads are fun to pass the time with. It's much better than all the other forums.

[plaidbassbilly]

I give it 7, I can't really follow the Community Thread and only really post in the Blink thread or Songname/Bandname-type game threads.

[Agent_Orange]

I also gave it a 7. I really like the community thread. I post in the blink and gd threads really just to see what is going on and to wait on a reply in the CT. The only way I see getting everyone away from the CT is to TEMP. close it and see what happens. Maybe, hopefully, everyone will find more interest in the band threads. Just my thoughts.

[Permanent Solution]

I also gave it a 7. I really like the community thread. I post in the blink and gd threads really just to see what is going on and to wait on a reply in the CT. The only way I see getting everyone away from the CT is to TEMP. close it and see what happens. Maybe, hopefully, everyone will find more interest in the band threads. Just my thoughts.
It's been done before. Didn't really do much. People just stopped coming by.

[Agent_Orange]

Bah....well then. I don't know.

[Drop The Baby]

6.

Bump cos i think the forum is pretty dull at the moment. More band threads need to be on the front page, and less threads like Agent Orange's confession thread that are Pit threads and boring.

[Ganondorf]

Yeah, pretty much what James said, the forum is pretty dull at the moment.

[Scarred4Life]

It's dull because I am no longer here. :(

The debate thread ideas are not new. We've tried them many many times, almsot every year we try. They never get off the ground unfortunately, it either turns into rants, dies due to lack of posting, or has people not following the rules. The pop-punk forum just isn't big enough to sustain a debate.

[Ganondorf]

lol Last time it ended up with me and James (Twat) insulting each other. Woo.

[Drop The Baby]

I thought it was worth a try, but it didn't work out too well. Still, it was quite funny and provided a decent posting thread.

Better than most threads that are on the go at the moment

[Agent_Orange]

6.

Bump cos i think the forum is pretty dull at the moment. More band threads need to be on the front page, and less threads like Agent Orange's confession thread that are Pit threads and boring.


I thought that would have been closed by now.