NWB - Community Blog

i quite agree socialtornado!
lets not turn this excelent site into another facebook!
chit chat tittle f**in tattle blah blah blah..... etc etc

Yes - some CRP boosting going on!

at least on this site you get the choice whether to open a blog and read it or not .... i'm sick of people i hardly know telling me they're currently "eating curry for tea" or other tremendously boring snippets of their tremendously boring lives via FaceBook. Makes even the Gordon/Trig duologues tagged onto the end of each and every blog mildly entertaining! lol
Willow

Facebook can help promote your band if you use it right. You can post videos and audio files with ease and you also can get loads of your friends info very quickly.

Best wishes

John

I agree with what CRP tried to do and in general if you look at the top page, virtually everyone on that page makes a frequent and valuable contribution to this site. Even if there was such a thing as CRP whores, which I don't believe there is, it would take 1000's of posts to get to where a majority of us are. But even if they did succeed, how popular would they be on here?

As you see, people are already starting to take the piss out of OTR so I suspect he may calm down on his random blog questions.

# Posted by John FV - 29/10/2009, 14:31 (GMT)

Facebook can help promote your band if you use it right. You can post videos and audio files with ease and you also can get loads of your friends info very quickly.


Apart from when some tit who is supposed to be your friend starts accusing you of "spamming" when you send an invite to your gig out and posts his nasty comments on your event wall.

I'm giving him til the end of the day to respond before going round there to kneecap him, or, as will probably be the case, I'll just remove him as a friend. Sorry I'm rambling now lol

LOL Willow

It has been a good thing for us to be fair.

Best wishes

John

From what I gather, if Paul suspects any sort of CRP abuse going on, he just delete's the posts.

Are you really that bothered anyway? lol

All for the community of NWB me. No harm in the recent posts s'pose

I think the CRP means you need to be active - or get binned
'Members who havent scored any points in a 3 month period will be REMOVED from the site.'

Fair do's but some are just nipping on every 2 weeks and saying who they are and what gigs they play to keep the account alive... YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE...NUDGE NUDGE... (hint - in fact I may as well name them as they don't read or activley contribute...)

oh you hit the nail on the head there DB

They make absolutely no attempt to contribute, they just think that jumping on here once every couple of months to advertise their gigs or grub for gigs is going to suddenly make us all go down and see them or offer them gigs.

grrrrrrrrrrrrr

I don't Myface or twitbook. Find it a little sad and 'faddy'.. but what do I know I'm getting on a bit... eeeh I remember when kids used to be 'playing out' me! Ralivo and that. try telling the kids today that and they won't believe yer...

I love this site ..... and will put up with a few personal minor dislikes for it to continue the way it does.

Is it just before or just after Stoke going south that the M6 has a drive downhill into a big wide bend surrounded by tall and deep forests that reminds me of driving through Germany or Austria ... wonderful scenery ..... aaaaaaaaahh

Willowtherambler

# Posted by Socialtornado - 29/10/2009, 14:49 (GMT)

As soon as you start dumbing down or posting nonsense, it loses it's appeal and then people lose interest and the whole site suffers.


well that's me f*cked then innit pmsl

Posted by Socialtornado - 29/10/2009, 14:49 (GMT)

Don't suppose it bothers me that much Scott, but I've always been an advocate of keeping the NWB blogs relevant. As soon as you start dumbing down or posting nonsense, it loses it's appeal and then people lose interest and the whole site suffers.


Seconded brother.. that and I don't have a single favourite entity so fail to be able to contirbute on much of 'em. I have loads of favourites and preferences and they are not even alphabetised!
WHAT A REBEL EH!

Good one ST!
I was thinking things were getting a bit siily and over the top of late! especially since "Off the Rails" started there mad blog assault on us!
On the other hand it does sometimes get people fingerboard gabbing and raise some interesting views and issues!
If Paul was to get rid of that silly CRP thingy it would stop a lot of the shite stuff I think?
not that I'm against anything!!!!
It's all good fun innit, unless your easily irritated?

@ST
"Not sure if you're being ironic or simply underlining my point exactly. I like to think it's the latter"

I've absolutely no idea but i DO love this site and i DO like that bit of motorway ......... and I DID post once just for the points but got a severe twatting from Mr & Mrs Bands (in a nice way of course)!!

:0)

but ... back to the point in hand ... the saving grace is that one can opt not to open the more obvious non-music related blogs if that's one's preference.

innit

Willow

Thank you for your comments. I for one like to know what other people like, influences, past interests, what they’ve done and a massive thanks to those who have pledge their support for the 45’s Charity Doo.

Rick.

www.newchildrenshospitalappeal.org.uk

Anyone noticed who is absent from this post yet ??????

No prizes for guessing right .......

good or just fkin boring???

I will go with Boring.

yep boring as hell IMHO
Look what happened after the LQ post. We are now swamped with these bloody reviews, and for a while, it was just the same mundane stuff and was very boring.
Once the fun stuff started appearing again then it became much better.
The whole point about having a site like this is to establish a community, but if you strangle the community and force them to just do certain things, slowly but surely it will diminish.

Imagine going to a club (I'll use Darts as an example), and everyone is talking nothing but darts. Then someone says, Hi everyone, I went out to see this great movie last night. He then gets marched out, for not talking darts.
Is that what you're getting at ST?

As long as the rules are roughly followed and a certain degree of fun and personality is added, then I really don't see what the problem is.

amended blog i thought that this is what this site was all about discussing bands, music, gigs equipment, with reference to crp the questions i raised was genuine,the band couldnt agree on what a 5 piece band should charge for new years eve or what the average gig charge should be, so i posted the blog to seek advice from some of you guys in the know, and most of the other blogs i posted i thought i was trying to participate on the site instead of sitting on my backside with nothing to say, its a bit more interesting than having nothing to say, what i dont think this site should be about is slagging people and bands off i totally agree with mr nwbs comments and the 45s

Seconded

Well put scott-
Can we change Darts for football though ;)

# Posted by Socialtornado - 30/10/2009, 09:41 (GMT)

To use Scotts example. Imagine going to pub to play darts and someone came in and said, "Hey guys, whats your favourite junction on the M6?" Would you invite him to play or would you ignore him? I suspect you would ignore him.


Exactly, you would just IGNORE him.
You wouldn't order him to never do it again, or take the p1ss (well maybe you would take the p1ss), or march him out.

That's what Willow was trying to say. If you don't like the blog, don't open it.

my turn to use your example ST :-)

"Imagine going to pub to play darts and someone came in and said, "Hey guys, whats your favourite junction on the M6?" Would you invite him to play or would you ignore him? I suspect you would ignore him."

That is exactly what happens in clubs. People socially interact and it is not all about the specific club subject.
That's the point I was trying to make, it would just be extremely lifeless and boring...like a chess club pmsl (sorry if there are any chess club members on here)

You've created a monster with this website Mr.nwb and tbh i love the chitter chatter,im only a fan on here as i had my 15 minutes of fame but divorce and kids kind of ruined it so i dont get involved with the band scene anymore but i really enjoy reading non relevant&relevant posts as i think its what makes this website great and very addictive lol ;)

Wonder why a few comments have been deleted off this blog ???, any comments Paul ???

G

@ social tornado-what did you conclude from the exercise? (think we may be at a pivotal moment here on nwb-the way the site goes may be determined through this blog?-no pressure there, then, st? :-) )

@ social tornado-heh heh!! you're welcome, bro!! :-)
agreed-maybe it's time to suggest a different format? the play pen idea obviously isn't working, and, as you correctly point out, "blogs" (although, in my opinion, they aren't "blogs" per se-they're "posts"?) disappear under a plethora of, sometimes, topics that are not totally music based, or have but the most tenuous link.
it would, of course, depend on whether mr nwb believes it to be "do-able", but perhaps, it's time to have "personal blogs", on profiles, that can be used for just about anything the profile owner wishes, accessible only by that owner's friends, and a new "community info" page, where gig shouts, reviews, muso talk and such can be discussed publicly, with the main thrust of the matter being music/gig/venue centred? venues and bands could , then, use that facility for communicating info and other relevent matters without the subject vanishing? with your agreement, i propose THIS particular blog -("shout"?) should be "pinned", so as to keep it uppermost in people's sight and, maybe, elicit suggestions as to the way forward? as i say, it all depends on mr nwb-it's his project and his time/expertise that would be relied on-whatever the ins and outs-i believe it's time for this particular snake to shed its' skin in order to make room for a bigger one?

# Posted by mr.nwb - 30/10/2009, 20:20 (GMT)

This is northwestBANDS - if you wanna talk chitter chatter, then use Facebook/Myspace/Bebo etc

Boring it might be, but atleast it keeps all the posts/commets relevant.


Watch out for those low-flying commets - LOL

@ social tornado-no-the site doesn't need a radical change, but, perhaps, a modicum of restructuring to encompass all aspects of the social side of the music scene, without which it would be soulless? the playpen idea, clearly, is not capturing the imagination of members-therefore an alternative should be found? what that should comprise of could be a matter for discussion, with, of course, mr nwb being the sole and final arbiter. at present there seems to be a minority of us postulating what is or is not good for the site-i'm not at all comfortable with that.
whether the site is on a highway to oblivion or not is a debatable issue. as for "let them use facebook"-if it was the last site on the internet there is absolutely no chance whatsoever of my joining up on that particular bit of nonsense!! :-)

In answer to the 1st question, 29 "

Posted by viking - 01/11/2009, 13:43 (GMT)

at present there seems to be a minority of us postulating what is or is not good for the site-i'm not at all comfortable with that.

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i agree Viking im a really big fan and glad to be on this site, but ALL opinions and posts as long as music/band related are valid, and more often than not if the topic steers off music it soon gets back on point again

its the nature of peoples conversation that the topic will shift now and again, but its healthy and natural for people to talk about things like whats your favourite guitar solos/most underrated singer etc etc, i have done many of these blogs and enjoyed them and like to hear peoples opinions and find out more about them and build rapport along the way, again i really like being part of this site and continue to make some great friends along the way, and its a shame when it gets serious with certain bands pushing their own ego(which is a long way away from being proud of your own work and promoting what you do,one of the driving factors and purposes of this site)