Niall Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 As the new Muse tour has been announced, we shall be making a few changes to how the Gigs and Tours forum is organised on the board. Gigs and Tours forum will be splits into two new forums. It might sound a bit drastic but we think it'll be the best way to organise all the threads people want to have in an easy manner. One forum will be just for individual gig dates with one thread per gig, and the discussion here will focus only on each gig itself where attendees can share their photos with others, arrange meetups, and so on, and the names for these threads will be standardised so they can be sorted by date and are easily searchable. We've already started making the threads with straight forward name newest tour dates. The other forum will be for more general threads, eg. discussing setlists for the tour, threads of speculative gigs and rumours (these will be moved to the other forum when confirmed), running commentaries on performances (don't worry, sexy plane isn't going anywhere), MuseBay, and so on. Pretty much anything goes as long as it's discussing Muse live (but not muselive). There won't be any changes in what can and can't be discussed, but the reorganisation will help keep different kinds of content and discussions in a more accessible format. These changes have been discussed for a long time by the staff based on the feedback we received during the last tour and from the survey we did last year, and this was the best solution we could find, but we welcome any additional feedback from board before the changes are made, including names for the new forums (all we have so far is "Gigs" and "Tours"...) At the moment Bootlegs will remain unchanged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Sounds like a good idea, quite like it Will certainly make stuff less cluttered and easier to find the discussion for a particualr gig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 This is my legacy from my very short spell as mod . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 aha yes, I forgot you had quite some input with this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will_ Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Sounds decent. It'll be easier to find the stuff you want to find anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee3Dee Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Where's the discussion if you seperate the opposing sides? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxomflirter Queef Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Where's the discussion if you seperate the opposing sides? Stop it Ari. The Barrie and Katis of this board will always end up in the discussion thread so there is nothing to fear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee3Dee Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Stop it Ari. The Barrie and Katis of this board will always end up in the discussion thread so there is nothing to fear. Genuine question, but whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uccellino Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Genuine question, but whatever. There'll still be people coming out of the O2 saying it was amazing and others saying they were disappointed...innit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxomflirter Queef Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Genuine question, but whatever. If you went to the gig and thought it was shit this doesn't stop you for sharing that viewpoint in the thread of the gig you went to though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessicaSarahS Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 If you went to the gig and thought it was shit this doesn't stop you for sharing that viewpoint in the thread of the gig you went to though. Yep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kueller Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Good idea. I've been avoiding Gigs & Tours because of the massive influx of tour date threads that are constantly bumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunge Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Where's the discussion if you seperate the opposing sides? The point is to take the general stage/performance/setlist beef out of gig threads and contain it in a more purpose-built discussion area. It just stops, with all due respect, the likes of you and me going mental in a thread for a gig that has just happened that we didn't attend and perhaps tarnishing the memory for people who were actually there. The old NIN forum used the very same model and it worked really well. People would only really post in the threads of the gigs they went to and otherwise confined their views to the gigs and tours discussion area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 I'm probably going to do this this evening to give us some time to get the threads into the right forum, will stick with the names "Gigs" and "Tours". Kinda boring, so some suggestions would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leetroot Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Sensible idea - though at one point on the board, the object seemed to be to reduce the number of forums rather than increase them? Standard thread headings seem boring but do make threads easier to find. Would it be too much of a job for mods to update the first post in each thread with useful info/FAQs etc as it becomes available? That would be helpful to many people I would think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearAndPanic Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I thought this had already happened but everything is just buried under that influx of specific gig threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall Posted June 8, 2012 Author Share Posted June 8, 2012 Sensible idea - though at one point on the board, the object seemed to be to reduce the number of forums rather than increase them? Standard thread headings seem boring but do make threads easier to find. Would it be too much of a job for mods to update the first post in each thread with useful info/FAQs etc as it becomes available? That would be helpful to many people I would think Yeah streamlining the forums would be nice but when we have ever growing numbers of members with a wider range of conversations happening we need to accommodate it. One day if solo projects happen we might need like a separate Matt/Dom/Chris forum or something, as an example. I was thinking of doing that. At least, adding a link to the musewiki and muse.mu pages for each gig, and links to the venue page which normally has all the travel and T&C stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I'm probably going to do this this evening to give us some time to get the threads into the right forum, will stick with the names "Gigs" and "Tours". Kinda boring, so some suggestions would be great. Gigs & Tours section: Where the moaning happens (both kind) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxomflirter Queef Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Gigs & Tours: (anti)climaxing since 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leetroot Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 snipes & snores bites & bores what shall we call gigs & tours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearAndPanic Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Gigs and Tours (with Beef) Gigs and Tours (without Beef) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxomflirter Queef Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Gigs and Tours (with Beef) Gigs and Tours (with Boobs) fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Gigs&Tours (What we really think) Gigs&Tours (What Muse see) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyper_chondriac_muser Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Good call, this was long overdue, I think. It can get confusing in G&T! For a minute, I read the thread title and thought someone was plotting to arrange a plan of attack on gigsandtours.com ahead of Thursday's ticket sales . Shame it isn't that, but hey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killer Rabbit Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Where's the discussion if you seperate the opposing sides? Don't worry. There's likely going to be some setlist groaning in threads by people who went to the shows and got bog standard/short set lists. Even with how the band played at SF Outside Lands and of course Reading/Leeds, I still get a bitter memory every time I think about Sacramento on September 28th, 2010. That was honestly the WORST Muse gig I've ever been to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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