@Mython- whilst I understand what you're trying to achieve - can I suggest that no longer posting an artist once they've been posted once kind of defeats the whole idea of the thread. Although I'
ve read practically every post, many may not. - which means if an awesome singer was mentioned a lot earlier, and your encouraging no reposts of an artist who has been posted before, then that singer gets lost to those who may not go back and read the previous 160 pages.
That's a fair point, and in some respects, I agree.
On the flipside, though, I question the validity of a thread that becomes just an endless re-run of Groundhog day. I am not alone in considering this to be one of the highest-calibre threads on Head-fi
I can see both sides, honestly.
Additionally, please note that I'm only discussing this lightly.
On a pragmatic level, I considered, previously, making the effort to go through the entire thread and gather all the many wonderful artists' names into a cohesive list, with links, (to be updated, on an ongoing basis, as the thread continues to develop), and asking the OP (
Trysaeder) to post it in the first post of the thread, but that member seems to no longer participate on Head-fi.
As an alternative, I've also considered posting such a list (with links) in an entirely new thread, as a quick resource for anyone wishing to expand the variety of female artists in their music collection, but I've held back on the suspicion that some would raise objections to this (I've even had some members bitching to the mods about me contributing
too many artists to this thread, because they felt I was "trying to take over the thread", for C's sake!).
(This isn't aimed at you, personally; I'm just speaking generally): it's incredible what dubious intentions some members will perceive in, &
project onto, other members, with an implicit assumption that those perceptions are unquestionably accurate and factual.
I couldn't give two hoots about fragile egos or dubiously-&-inaccurately-perceived/projected agendas.
What is best for the community ? A thread with endless repetition, and minimal new contributions, or a thread with minimal repetition and lots of new contributions, on an ongoing basis?
I've stopped posting artists, here, of late, after the B$ accusations and objections, from some members, via the mods, that I was contributing too many to the thread.
But it's really not the end of the world. If I'm almost the only one, here, who considers endless repetition to be a futile endeavour, then so be it. We're all just kicking our heels, in cyberspace, and it doesn't affect 'real life', anyway
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I just picked up "The Bones of What You Believe" based on this recommendation, so apparently it got me too.
