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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Have you forgotten about your tag already?
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Then you can go out to play.
Just make sure that you don't come back before 6pm.
Plus apologies due to @ourmaninthenorth First Known Use of IDEATION - 1818! Who'd have thought. I just associate it with some digital marketing tossers that I used to work with.
@TTony and @Roland
Ahhhh ... September 2013. I think I remember those days. Vaguely.
We’d just launched th forum and our main concern at the time was getting the site established before MR got theirs back up and running. We’ve moved on from then!
Although we never had a clear strategy for the site, we chased volume because thats what websites did. Its all abut the volume because that drives the ad revenue. Except we didn’t - don’t - want advertising!
It took us a while to get to that realisation, but having got there, it changes the way that we’d run the site and means that we’ve come to recognise and value quality over quantity. Sure, quantity of quality would be great, but we’d chose the latter over the former every day.
You’ve already created a lot of quality, and the current growth in the jam sessions and music challenges (as just 2 examples) will grow that more. More in the making & modding section. More businesses engaging with us in a mutually beneficial way (although we’ve got a way to go for that to be possible). More in the reviews section to build that into a more useful resource than the 4.5/5 star reviews. More of thngs that make this a cohesive community.
And less of the pointless irrelevant arguing, less of the freeloading ...
And goog luck to guitar chat. Given the amount of bassists and bass-related content that we seem to have acquired here, it seems only fair that they add a few strings to their bow.
Our competition isn’t another forum - its millions of FB groups or thousands of YT channels, or the new platform that’s just being trialled by a couple of kids in thier bedrooms that Google will shortly buy for $5bn.
And ourselves. We are our own biggest competition.
What we - all of us - do and how we use the forum will have the biggest impact on whether we’re still here in another 5yrs time and (if we are) what we’ve evolved into.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
I googled Guitar Chat and come up with some weird blog.
What punishment will be metered out to forumites who join Guitar Chat?
Will it involve genital torture of any kind?
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
They used to feature a small guitar section there which they've now pulled over to the new site but the guitar traffic was relatively low but pedal purchases/prices could be good.
As TTony said, this was a bit of a necro bump as the first talk of this was in 2013 and so it's taken 5 years to develop and launch but 'Good Luck' to them but it's a very different model to ours and TTony highlights our strengths and long may we continue and be good to ourselves.
After that, we'll probably change their avatars to Bungle.
I love basschat, it’s a good source of information, but it doesn’t in any way feel like a community in the way it does here
You need to get along to one of their BassChat Days (there's one in Surrey in mid-September). You couldn't hope for a more friendly, fun and welcoming bunch and it's a really well-organised day and good place to build on friendships and that community