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offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2008-04-14 11:12 [#02194200]
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http://inspirebox.com/netlab/2008/04/14/planet-mu-forum-c...

I liked the old mu forum, the new one was wank though


 

offline iiiiiiiiii from Gloucester on 2008-04-14 11:26 [#02194204]
Points: 873 Status: Addict



who cares. not me. xltronic will shut down soon enough.


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2008-04-14 11:44 [#02194206]
Points: 6428 Status: Regular



i don't care either, it was useless. You could post music on
it but no one will listen unless you tag it "breakcore" or
unless people know you've released at least a fart on
hardcopy. So, if you scrap posting music off the list i
suppose there's room left for talking about venetian snares
and upcoming releases?.... Fuck it, it's a useless forum,
let them flush it down the toilet, I'll throw in the turd to
follow it.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2008-04-14 12:40 [#02194218]
Points: 5125 Status: Regular



I have a good story about that forum, but IM not gunna tell
it


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2008-04-14 12:44 [#02194219]
Points: 18368 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag



old style was a blast
i rarely visit it, and even less posting on the new style.
when it came back up under the new style, i immediately
assumed it was an april fools joke.

even the main-page for the label looks hideous. what was
the reason for change?


 

offline staz on 2008-04-14 12:47 [#02194222]
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it turned to absolute shite. good riddance.


 

offline pidgin from St Kilda on 2008-04-14 12:50 [#02194226]
Points: 542 Status: Lurker



big deal, there's a hundred other great labels. that forum
died on its arse the day they decided to redesign it.

i always suspected they changed it in order to deliberately
kill it, or at least lose the idm geeks.

[as far as I can tell it was actually shut down because the
mother of dubstep mary anne hobbes (pbuh) was insulted on
the forum and it was threatening mu's reputation in the
Dubstep Arena]


 

offline WOAH from N EP AL (Nepal) on 2008-04-14 13:04 [#02194234]
Points: 127 Status: Regular | Followup to pidgin: #02194226



lol dubstep


 

offline diamondtron on 2008-04-14 14:07 [#02194256]
Points: 1138 Status: Lurker



slowly people are realizing that the all singing all dancing
websites are self-obsessed tedium and the absolute basic
websites are actually the best
for music, discogs is all we need


 

offline thecrimsonguard from ∞ (United States) on 2008-04-14 15:27 [#02194277]
Points: 1801 Status: Lurker



I thought the site update/overhaul that looked like shit was
to make it easier for Mike P to update the content quicker.
I liked the old forum...then you got a ton of shit heads
like that 'will' guy spamming every 4 seconds with his shit
music to stupid posts...plus it was just not nice on the
eyes to look for posts.


 

offline thatne from United States on 2008-04-14 16:21 [#02194294]
Points: 3026 Status: Lurker



it was pretty cool that mu artists posted there though


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-04-14 18:11 [#02194301]
Points: 1038 Status: Lurker



i mean the part i found most frustrating about it was that
any time anybody would be critical of any planet mu artist
the posts would dissapear. so a lot of threads were pretty
much unreadable unless you read them from the very beginning
and got to see the initial critical posts. When you run a
label and a forum on your website you are going to run the
risk of people saying things badly about your labels and
your label's artists. If they/he weren't willing to deal
with that then i personally think its better idea to just
close the forum.


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-04-14 18:13 [#02194302]
Points: 1038 Status: Lurker



"[as far as I can tell it was actually shut down because
the
mother of dubstep mary anne hobbes (pbuh) was insulted on
the forum and it was threatening mu's reputation in the
Dubstep Arena]
"

it would be great to see evidence of that. and frankly it
doesn't surprise me there are so many egos and silly
politics in electronic music these days anybody take
screenshots or cache the page?


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2008-04-14 18:22 [#02194304]
Points: 5125 Status: Regular



what am I going to do without my daily musings from
peoplepoo?!!?


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2008-04-14 18:32 [#02194305]
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Can't forget that awesome post by Aphex there, though


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-04-14 19:53 [#02194334]
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yes that post was hilarious it also reminded me of the
musings of an insane man John lily esque


 

offline diamondtron on 2008-04-15 00:32 [#02194392]
Points: 1138 Status: Lurker



drowned in sound is popular these days apparently, not with
me


 

offline Chin Bwoy Phat from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-04-15 10:05 [#02194479]
Points: 574 Status: Lurker



i liked the old style forum but was banned for calling mike
a four-eyed geek.


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-04-15 11:00 [#02194491]
Points: 1744 Status: Regular | Followup to sheffieldbleep: #02194200



0 Responses to “Planet Mu Forum Closes”


 

offline Nragzxer on 2008-04-15 12:53 [#02194520]
Points: 386 Status: Lurker



i, like so many, liked the old style forum but i never
bothered to lurk there so i don't realy care... i have
xltronic ^^


 

offline Quaristice on 2008-04-15 13:52 [#02194534]
Points: 521 Status: Regular



WATMM has finally closed its doors tonight too

:(


 

offline Chin Bwoy Phat from London (United Kingdom) on 2008-04-15 14:17 [#02194559]
Points: 574 Status: Lurker



^^^

er, has it? tried to log in, but was greeted with an
"Internal Server Error"...

WATMM can't close!


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-04-15 14:18 [#02194560]
Points: 1038 Status: Lurker



so did anybody take a screen shot of the planet mu forum and
what negative comments might have caused its closure?

i would very much like to see the evidence


 

offline pidgin from St Kilda on 2008-04-15 15:01 [#02194637]
Points: 542 Status: Lurker



no screenshots, sorry.

but people were basically saying "why is mary anne hobbes
listed as the artist for this new compilation? she hasn't
written a note in her life. what a poser", and someone else
was saying (i think) that she looks fat on the album cover,
which is obviously not true.

then mary anne - or someone pretending to be her, but i
guess not - turned up and bawled a bit and stomped her feet.
and then someone pretended to be tim westwood. the next
morning it was gone

the forum was out of control from trolling by 12y.o.
american kids with adhd, constant spam of shitty myspace
dubstep mixes and general turgid wank anyway.

!

LOL

!


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-04-15 15:06 [#02194645]
Points: 1038 Status: Lurker



i thought its downfall was all the 9 year old Australians


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-04-15 15:19 [#02194660]
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keeping the world of fans, critics, zines etc. somewhat
separate from the actual operation seems like the smarter
move to me. let the fans have their own nook where they can
say what they want and the label or artist can manage their
pr.

i don't know if anyone is familiar with litany.net, a skinny
puppy & related mb. Well the band (to be polite)
posts on there a lot and is real involved in what is going
on and they have all kinds of problems like that with posts
getting deleted, people getting banned for being critical
etc.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2008-04-15 16:28 [#02194719]
Points: 5125 Status: Regular



This the great thing about the net. You can sometimes have a
conversation with your music heros. Except aphex.


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-04-15 16:31 [#02194727]
Points: 1038 Status: Lurker | Followup to glasse: #02194660



interesting, ive never been to that forum but i can easily
see that happening. they lost a lot of fans with the Process
(not including myself) and got a whole new fan base with
their 2 newest albums and again lost a whole slew of older
fans again.


 

offline SlipDrinkMats from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-04-15 18:06 [#02194775]
Points: 1744 Status: Regular | Followup to pidgin: #02194637



and then someone pretended to be tim westwood.

It happens to all messageboards eventually, it's the The
Westwood Clause.

I wonder if we can get him, or Mary Anne Hobbes to step in
and close XLTronic, maybe by repeatedly making reference to
her breathily entoning "Simmm, with three M's. I like that,
ambitious"


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2008-04-15 19:13 [#02194816]
Points: 5125 Status: Regular



haha


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2008-04-15 22:59 [#02194874]
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i'd love to go as far as to call her a fatty, just to get a
response. perhaps i should mail her.


 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2008-04-16 04:36 [#02194930]
Points: 4442 Status: Regular



I can see why, not all but some were completely ungrateful
for what mike was doing. For a while I remember some were
like "MY FREE SPEECH YOU CAN'T CENSOR ME AHHHHH" after they
would completely bash a release that wasn't out yet that
they downloaded. Or personally attack that artist, thinking
that no one should fight back. Kind of like how they yell at
their mothers to bring them sandwiches and koolaid while
they flame someone about a music genre like ACID that they
have no idea about in the first place because they are 19
and were watching power rangers and rug rats in the US and
not going to crazy underground raves and festivals over
seas.


 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2008-04-16 04:38 [#02194931]
Points: 4442 Status: Regular



(They are to young to have been there is what I mean)


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2008-04-16 04:40 [#02194932]
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people turn into egoistic cunts when it comes to music, im
having the same problems (yes, it's that bad) with one of my
roommates


 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2008-04-16 05:19 [#02194947]
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Ego's in general are hard to deal with. Political, musical,
whatever, it's just really hard to deal with people
sometimes. Unless you completely side with what they are
saying it's an effort that's almost not worth spending
unless there is some ultimate pay of to it, like arguing for
your money back at a store or something like that.

The thing that sucked with muboard was that you had a lot of
people who felt real safe behind the monitor whom at a
distance were very good at populating the board with
hate,slander,bullshit but in person would probably not be
able to speak up. So you had people who in real life are
generally social and use the internet as an extension of
that (and not a replacement) having to deal with these cunts
who ruin the fun for everyone else.

It's so easy to be a prick on the internet. It's aggravating
to have to witness it. It's creatively bankrupt and takes
something that could be fun and enjoyable and turns it into
something not fun and not enjoyable.



 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2008-04-16 09:55 [#02195042]
Points: 1767 Status: Lurker



Isn't it rather simple? If you run a forum then you moderate
it according to your own principles and rules. If people
start being abusive, ban their IP - not difficult is it?

I suspect the real reason the forum was closed has nothing
to do with the general behaviour of specific users, rather
that they simply couldn't be bothered to moderate it or
their own products were being criticised.

Paradinas is a control freak after all, I have personal
experience of that.


 

offline Wei from Bristol on 2008-04-16 12:37 [#02195151]
Points: 4 Status: Lurker



Easy pidg!!

I did post a more considered reply after my initial can of
worms post. I still think it was a valid question to ask but
might have come across as critical. I think mike even gave
an answer. But then danknugz kind of blew it by quoting
MAH's post about never returning and going 'OH NO!!!'

He got banned and then the forum closed.


 

offline Wei from Bristol on 2008-04-16 12:38 [#02195154]
Points: 4 Status: Lurker



Easy pidg!!

I did post a more considered reply after my initial can of
worms post. I still think it was a valid question to ask but
might have come across as critical. I think mike even gave
an answer. But then danknugz kind of blew it by quoting
MAH's post about never returning and going 'OH NO!!!'

He got banned and then the forum closed.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2008-04-16 13:26 [#02195176]
Points: 5125 Status: Regular



I remember a post from Vsnares on there once where he said I
don't judge you for sucking a guys cock after its been in
your ass so don't judge me to the resident gay guy on the
MB. It was mean, but funny


 

offline jackeroffer from Aruba on 2008-04-16 15:50 [#02195227]
Points: 1038 Status: Lurker | Followup to Barcode: #02195042



is that why you rarely review his labels output?


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2008-04-16 16:43 [#02195249]
Points: 1767 Status: Lurker | Followup to jackeroffer: #02195227



Not sure where you get that from. We have the Barry Lynn -
Balancing Lakes review online and Meat Beat Manifesto coming
up. We also reviewed the Various Artists - 200 release last
year, Doubtful Guest - Acid Sauna was reviewed for another
publication. The crappy last U-Ziq album. Venetian Snares -
Pink + Green.

Quite like the label and reviews are usually fairly
positive.


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2008-04-16 16:58 [#02195253]
Points: 4158 Status: Lurker



I WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT INADVERTENTLY BROUGHT DOWN THE
TOM GREEN.COM FORUM, AND I FEEL BAD AND MISS IT.

STILL, I STAND BY MY ABUSIVE COMMENTS TOWARDS DICE CLAY AND
NEIL HAMBURGER, AND WOULD STILL VERY MUCH LIKE TO SET FIRE
TO THEIR TEETH AFTER I SMASH THEIR TALENTLESS BRAINS IN WITH
A BETAMAX VIDEO PLAYER.

I THOUGHT THE OBNOXIOUS ABUSE OF OBNOXIOUS ABUSIVE
'COMEDIANS' WOULD BE FUNNY IN AN IRONIC WAY, HOWEVER IT FELL
ON DEAF EARS....INCLUDING TOM GREEN'S.

:-/


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2008-04-16 16:58 [#02195255]
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I THOUGHT THE OBNOXIOUS ABUSE *TOWARDS...


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2008-04-16 17:21 [#02195269]
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are you serious?


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2008-04-16 17:50 [#02195289]
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he's writing in caps, come on, he might have some dibs


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2008-04-16 17:51 [#02195291]
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who me?

yes.


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2008-04-16 17:53 [#02195293]
Points: 4158 Status: Lurker | Followup to Fah: #02195289



yeah sorry about the accidental caps, got half way through
and couldn't be bothered to rewrite the post, plus it does
seem to accentuate how serious a post it is.


 

offline aphexchrist from philly (United States) on 2009-12-16 10:10 [#02351776]
Points: 239 Status: Lurker



This sucks, I was just getting to finally feel comfortable
with my mu buddies. this really sucks.phil you fuck.


 

offline aphexchrist from philly (United States) on 2009-12-16 10:16 [#02351777]
Points: 239 Status: Lurker



use to come here a long time ago. even though the mu board
had fucking idotic people that trolled the shit out of it,
there were brilliant minds, not to mention the musicians
that regularly put in their two cents. It was a source of
information, music, laughter, a place to vent. etc. maybe
that is why it got shut down. but to be honest it is
devestating to me. I was use to posting and visiting on a
regular basis.


 

offline cwnt on 2009-12-16 10:27 [#02351781]
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Recent PMu thread:- "Hay Guyz Im Getting Married ROFL"
Contents of thread:- Wedding Photographs
Also:- Honeymoon Photographs
Two dudes Married. Two dudes on Honeymoon. Seriously. WTF?
That is NOT marriage. Sick Dude!!!!!!!!!!!


 


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