Are captchas killing PA?

^ that may be true...  I don't see it. I regular post on 5 other forums upon interests of mine, from history to role playing to board gaming to books and they are alive and doing find.

Music?  One could see that.. talking about music is like talking about sex. what is the point.. get out there and experience it. It is a personal experience and relationship that doesn't really tend well to discussion unless you really have a talent for talking music. Otherwise you get a bunch of polls on what you like and don't like hahah.  What really is there to talk about.. yeah Red heads are freaky and rule.. but will steal your soul..  yeah Genesis wasted a decade before discovering their true talents as purveyors of great pop..  pffff. As any long term member here knows...  new topics are very few and far between.. mostly rehashes of stuff discussd years ago.

but music forums.  Progears is still alive and doing fine. Perhaps they are an outlier.. that site is more clique driven by friendships that extend out of cyberspace into real life. Then there is the Steve Hoffman site I checked out after Jose mentioned it in another thread. Dead? no way.. I saw a 20 page thread on Dione Warwick sititng right next to a long mult-page thread on the new Roger album.  That forum sure as sh*t isn't dead. I've been thinking long and hard about joining it. Looks like a hoot and some damn smart people posting there.. not just parrots and fanboys of particular groups.

internet forums dead and dying?  I'm not seeing it. Perhaps John it is just this forum....


Edited by micky - June 11 2017 at 10:52

oh sure forums come and go... and yeah if you are looking mainly at musical ones you can see where they might be failing at greater than normal rates.  Again.. music is sex man. Don't talk... just get it on!!! Perhaps the Hoffman forum has the right idea..  a grab bag of all music not just focused on a particular listening subset. Which brings me back to....

I did drag out jacob's post for more than one reason though.. sure it was to hammer home for those unaware that yes ..there was indeed a revival but again for the insight he showed.   Perhaps the days of the focused musical forums are as numbered John as those who tend to identify themselves through specific music.  I made this point in the latest version of the girls v. prog thread this forum loves to have every few years and was ignored as usual by kiddies who know as little about women as they do prog.  Men gravitate here for part of being a man is that group association we tend to place upon ourselves.  We have tended to associate ourselves via the music we like.. women? f**k that.. it is just music. not a statement on who they are.  Yet as Jacob sagely noted.. the days of that are ending with today's youth.  Genres.. tags.. labels.. we grew up on it..  and we reveled in our attempts here to characterize to summarize to pound round groups into the square holes of genre ID's. However it is a new world out there..  today's music listener John.. they don't give a f**k it is jazz, prog, or pop. so why would they visit those kind of limited interest forums. All they would seem to care about is only if it is good.. so why would they come here to a site that reeks of age and bands many years in their creative graves. 

as was said. so it is.. it is a new world out there... remember how we had bands beating down our doors ..pestering us to no end to be added to teh database or have their albums reviewed.  Today? where did that go... the labels attached to the music simply don't seem to apply anymore. 

^ I doubt PA is going away anytime soon, it still brings in revenue, and I have seen that fact for myself.
Many site visitors do not come her for discussion, they are here looking for particular info etc.

You give me some peace of mind, then, still usefully and pleasantly using (and massively working on) the DB and expecting to be able to continue to do so.

no doubt.. I'm sure he would... and Raff and I will buy it from it. I'll even throw in a case of beer and the phone number of a sadistic (hopefully) sex starved redhead who'll rock your world M@X if sell by the end of year haha...

micky wrote: no doubt.. I'm sure he would... and Raff and I will buy it from it. I'll even throw in a case of beer and the phone number of a sadistic (hopefully) sex starved redhead who'll rock your world M@X if sell by the end of year haha...

You can have this site where the guys are still trying to figure out what 'girls' are, but I have my eyes on buying his jazz site.

micky wrote: ^ that may be true...  I don't see it. I regular post on 5 other forums upon interests of mine, from history to role playing to board gaming to books and they are alive and doing find.

The T wrote: micky wrote: ... and Raff and I will buy it from it.  This explain everything. M@x is a MACHINE! Obviously this explain the whole captcha thing.  And the @ in his name never fooled me....

Open the pad bay door M@X!

Look last thing I want to see is PA die, go away and the DB with it, that would be a shame and a lot of work for naught. I have a suspicion that would never happen.....but u never know I guess.

Why can't the owners turn it off?