[Welly Wu]

Hi all! Don't flame me but I was wondering if the idea of creating genre specific sub-sections under the Music forum has any merits or drawbacks. Thanks.

 

[D-EJ915]

well, I see two problems, one is that there would be way too many sub-forums for all the genres, or too little, and two is that some sub-forums might alienate themselves and start a hate group against the other music types, it's unlikely, but those are the two main problems I see.

 

[averydonovan]

It's a good idea, except as D-EJ915 said you wouldn't be able to please everybody's categorizations. Maybe just two or three forums for broad categories, like Classical, Rock/Pop, Other. The classical group might give classical-loving folks their own place to discuss classical, while keeping another two forums free for those who feel that discussions of classical in the main music forum makes it seem somewhat snobby at times and allow the classical listeners to discuss their music more freely. The rock/pop forum would probably be the most active since rock/pop includes most types of music discussed in the music forum now, including rock, pop (duh!), industrial, electronica, industrial, goth, etc. The other forum would be for everything else. This might be general enough. The main problem I see is actually too many categories as not everybody agrees with genre-categorizations.

 

[Welly Wu]

I was just thinking that all of the current threads in the Music Forum should stay as is because the work and time it would take to organize them is insane. Two or maybe even three (a stretch) sub-forums based on loose, general, categories would make future threads a bit more manageable. The only reason why I thought of this idea was because there are a lot of threads about different music genres put together in a sort of random organization as is. Perhaps future threads could be posted in such loose, general, categories. It would make it easier to do searches at Head-Fi if there were sub-forums for these general music categories and it may even spark renewed interest in classical / jazz music or pop / rock music for fellow Head-Fi members! Perhaps Jude would be so kind as to consider this idea in the future and weigh in with his thoughts, no?

 

[FalconP]

Quote:

Originally posted by Welly Wu Hi all! Don't flame me but I was wondering if the idea of creating genre specific sub-sections under the Music forum has any merits or drawbacks. Thanks.

Certainly not right now: we have fewer than 10 threads in the whole Music Fourm on an average day.

 

[blessingx]

No.

Everyone should broaden their music horizons.

Part of the problem of the segregation in music stores is people spirial around the same musical tastes for years.

You get people who say things like "My musical tastes are very diverse. I like ELO to Bruce Springsteen to Nine Inch Nails to Radiohead."

Ahh... yeah.

Less exposure... less experimentation.

Anyway that's my two cents.... now let me step off this soapbox.

 

[kaiwei]

Sometimes/Most of the time I have never heard of the artist that the posters were talking about. By listing all the topics in only one forum, I'm exposed to music I'll probably never had heard about otherwise. I think it should stay the way it is.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I pretty much agree with everyone else: why? There isn't enough traffic to justify more different sub-forums, and most people read what they care about anyway. Just because other forums do this, doesn't mean we need to.

 

[Braver]

exactly. it's music, period.

if someone asks about fusion in the jazz section and someone recommends Bozzio/Levin/Stevens, is that a bad thing cause it's actually rock?

 

[Lindy]

Yea, let's keep it like it is. A little cross-pollination never hurt anybody. As others have said, I've learned about some music that I would have *never* found out about otherwise.