are there any good prog rock forums?

RE : thread disappearing too quickly from sight is a major problem
Quoted by Sean Trane

I  increased yesterday the numbers of posts per pages.
Do you observe any differences guys ?

About the current thread, thanks to all for your thoughts and comments on the quality of the FORUM it will help us taking better and better decision regarding the re-vamp of the site and the forum.

Your participation is really appreciated !

Thanks

Easy Livin wrote: Part of the problem is that the forum has become so busy. Good threads can quickly (within a day) disappear to two or three pages down the list because others are updated later. This should be addressed to some extent by the revamp of the forum, which is currently being worked on. Forum members could however help by making sure they start new threads in the right sections. The main discussions are ONLY for taking about prog, not about members who have been barred, poor reviews, favourite beers, etc. Some members seem only to look at the main discussions, and put little thought into which section their thread should be in. There's a lot more discussion to explore elsewhere in the forum too.

Maani , M@X and everyone else,

This thing about thread disappearing too quickly from sight is a major problem for the kind of issue discussed here. I posted on three relatively obscure threads this morning around 9 AM , (Help with Zappa, Quebecois albums and Oregon) and by 11AM two out of those were on second page and it is now 2PM and all three are on second page with the first one halfway down.

The Lard Free thread started by DB and to which I posted yesterday afternoon is now halfway down the third page. How do obscure band threads stand a chance?!?!?

In the meantime first page is polluted with reminder of 4 or 5 threads/subjects that have been moved because misplaced in the first place , but people keep posting (it is of course their right to do so) but those removed threads still clutter/pollute the Main Discussion.

Could those signals/reminders to moved threads disappear quickly from the main discussion, and is there a possibility of increasing the number of threads visible on page 1? Page 2 , 3 and so on holds 20 threads whereas page 1 hold 13 of which 5 are removed threads . Thus leaving 8 threads on page1 of the  Main Discussion. 

Also , must there be seven Important Topics - some of those (CivilityThreads) are important after all -  , taking up so much place on page 1, and should there be seven of them, three or four of them locked? Could they not be placed on the Forum menu, instead of being repeated on page 1 of  every sub-section? I do not know much about informatics and this "waste of space" (lack of better words as I write) may not be much in terms of bytes of memory, but it sure is in terms of screen space visible at one time.

Hope something can be done quickly!!?!!

greenback wrote: with most of members here having less than 100 reviews, you cannot ask them to agree to statements like "Citizen cain's serpents in camouflage sounds like marillion's script, and have the voice of peter gabriel or dave cousins!" anyway, you easily notice the lack of culture when you read the reviews.

Actually some (a good deal of them) reviewers have much more culture and knowledge than their numbers of reviews would have you believe. I tried many times to entice people to do more reviewing. So many group and album sections remain desperately empty of reviews.

with most of members here having less than 100 reviews, you cannot ask them to agree to statements like "Citizen cain's serpents in camouflage sounds like marillion's script, and have the voice of peter gabriel or dave cousins!"

anyway, you easily notice the lack of culture when you read the reviews.

Aaron wrote: i want to read a forum that actually is about prog music, not what bands are prog or not, or threads about yes, elp, and pink floyd, i want a forum that could potentially get me into lesser known bands or raises discussion on our music, not hate discussion of why this or that sucks Aaron

Aaron take my word, this is one of the better ones. I've been on others where the correspondents are so fixed with their narrowminded opinions, that when  they reply, they wish you physical damage for daring to express anything contrite and not at all polite. Sure this one could do with a through spring clean (yes already!), for instance having as serious section devoted to serious discussions (and monitored to toss out mindless comments at the earliest moment) and in passing,  have the Main Discussion section freed up  of f***ing (irrelevant) polls. In fact why not isolate polls into a standalone section - then perhaps it will easier to see wood from trees,  and maybe we will suffer less of duplicate polls (in fact vocal polls had been quadruplicated in the last 30 days) or better still  not accidently open them.

I think I can understand what Aaron meant, although it was wrongly stated.

Most threads that are successfull thread-wise are about the groups that everyone knows about ELP, Rush , DT, Genesis ,Moody Blues, Yes etc..... When I made my Genesis reformation thread for April's fool, in less than 10 minutes some 80 people had viewed the thread (only 2 posted answers) .

This means that people are not curious enough to investigate threads talking about bands other than the ones they know. Of course , one can only discuss what one knows, and not everyone has the advantage of a huge media public library such as the one I have at my disposal, but I think that people have a reticence to discover other stuff than that they know unless it closely resembles what they already know.

My idea of spending time on the Archives is roughly 60% of it in the database section of the Archives (you know that purple , black & orange box at the top of the main forum page), writing review , reading other's reviews susceptible to making me discover new bands. The other 40% of the times for the forum and private messages. Some people I feel are spending 95% of their times in the Archives roaming around in the forum, picking fights and spend the other 5% of that time checking if noone is sl*gging off their fave artists . I cannot figure out the last time I went on the yes section, since I know almost everything to know.

There are threads that are completely forgotten by people such as Oregon thread, Forever Einstein etc.... What Aaron might be wishing for is threads about less known bands (there are some.... but maybe in the last year four threads about Caravan - sad for such absolute masters of Canterbury)  and I feel thast DallasBryan is also frustrated about this. To tell you the truth , I am a little too. We need another two Dick Heath , another Easy, a more patient Dallas, a more curteous KE9 etc....to make longer and interesting posts about subjects that are out of the beatten paths.

I am also guilty but I used to print some threads to read away from the computer because they were damn interesting. Lately, my printing machine has been very quiet.

The problem is that , for us oldtimers, we have seen many of the topics covered, over and over again....really all there is left to talk about is a lot of tripe.

The forums to me is more of a social playground where i can play with the other progladytes..I actually use the archives when I am researching REAL information. I suggest you do the same.

Now Aaron, come back and play in the progressive rock sandbox with me...I'm building pretty sand castles.