Pet Shop Boys Community

Joemoz wrote:The most interesting one, in my opinion, is www.petshopboys.proboards61.com.

If that one is so interesting, I'm sure you're able to tell me why by far the most succesful topic on that forum is called That Other Forum, referring to this one.

Yes, a few interesting users post over there, but fortunately a huge majority of those users also posts over here. Some of them only do cameo's, though.

Besides that, some members over there seem to suffer from a serious superiority complex... - Thing is, despite originally even being a mod over there, I started feeling quite uneasy pretty quick.

This one is the best because it's the one that comes from the first forums like Aimoo and the PSB mailing list. Plus I think it's the biggest PSB place on the net. Do some remember the good ol' days of #petshop and #petshop2 on mIRC ?

dVTB wrote:If that one is so interesting, I'm sure you're able to tell me why by far the most succesful topic on that forum is called That Other Forum, referring to this one.

If by successful you mean it has the most posts, why don't you check the most "successful" posts on this board:

1 7269 The ten songs game
2 5396 The "last word" song game
3 5387 word whomp game Part 6
4 4657 Word Puzzle Game
5 3411 Right, before you lot start counting to 1000 AGAIN...

dVTB wrote:

Joemoz wrote:The most interesting one, in my opinion, is www.petshopboys.proboards61.com.

If that one is so interesting, I'm sure you're able to tell me why by far the most succesful topic on that forum is called That Other Forum, referring to this one.

For one thing, people there have the decency not to start 20 new threads about essentially the same topic, like some posters here.

Also, since the raison d'être for the other forum was unhappiness with the moderation and members of this one, it is not surprising that that discussion attracted a lot of posting especially at the beginning - even more so considering how this place is the main forum of interaction for PSB fans on the web and thus of course attracts attention.

I personally have no problem posting on both - I generally post my thoughts where I think I will get the most relevant response. I often get tired of the sheer number of utterly mindless and repetitive posts here though, which is why I often prefer the other one these days. There's just less "I want to have sex with Chris" or "Is Numb a good single choice #37"

mantooth wrote:If by successful you mean it has the most posts, why don't you check the most "successful" posts on this board:

1 7269 The ten songs game
2 5396 The "last word" song game
3 5387 word whomp game Part 6
4 4657 Word Puzzle Game
5 3411 Right, before you lot start counting to 1000 AGAIN...

Where is Glenny4 anyway? I haven't seen him for ages.

mantooth wrote:

dVTB wrote:If that one is so interesting, I'm sure you're able to tell me why by far the most succesful topic on that forum is called That Other Forum, referring to this one.

If by successful you mean it has the most posts, why don't you check the most "successful" posts on this board:

1 7269 The ten songs game
2 5396 The "last word" song game
3 5387 word whomp game Part 6
4 4657 Word Puzzle Game
5 3411 Right, before you lot start counting to 1000 AGAIN...

At least these topics aren't about other forums. And of course 'game' topics fill more rapidly than average discussion topics.

Joemoz wrote:For one thing, people there have the decency not to start 20 new threads about essentially the same topic, like some posters here.

Also, since the raison d'être for the other forum was unhappiness with the moderation and members of this one, it is not surprising that that discussion attracted a lot of posting especially at the beginning - even more so considering how this place is the main forum of interaction for PSB fans on the web and thus of course attracts attention.

I personally have no problem posting on both - I generally post my thoughts where I think I will get the most relevant response. I often get tired of the sheer number of utterly mindless and repetitive posts here though, which is why I often prefer the other one these days. There's just less "I want to have sex with Chris" or "Is Numb a good single choice #37"

Exactly as I said: the most interesting posters from the Zeus forum (this includes you, yes), also post here. I don't deny that there are some idiots around here, but it's pretty easy to ignore them. I'm convinced that the activity of interesting members HERE is higher than on the Zeus forum.

Who says one forum can't discuss another forum? As joemoz pointed out, the posters from "the Zeus forum" came from here initially. Many of them had been a part of the community for ages and so it might be natural for them to be curious as to what is going on here. If discussing another forum is against the law, please let me know as I will gladly ask for the thread to be locked...

mantooth wrote:Who says one forum can't discuss another forum? As joemoz pointed out, the posters from "the Zeus forum" came from here initially. Many of them had been a part of the community for ages and so it might be natural for them to be curious as to what is going on here. If discussing another forum is against the law, please let me know as I will gladly ask for the thread to be locked...

I never said it's against the law. And to be honest: I don't give a rat's ass what people discuss over there. I had my reasons to leave, I only lurk occasionally, and I wondered why *by far* the most popular topic is That Other Forum.

Perhaps the answer can be found in the fact that a huge majority of active members on the Zeus Forum, also post over here.

As expected, this discussion is now also noticed on That Other Forum, where I am currently being discussed. for alledged 'gossiping' about this forum. Hilarious. The 'nastiest' thing I ever wrote was that this forum was down for maintenance.

A few days after the start of the Zeus Forum, a poll was opened where the administrators of Community were insulted. I wrote, literally, the following:

I don't think we should call names to the administrators of the PSB Community. They just act according to a certain policy that we don't agree with.

The 'quality level' of the Zeus Forum is best illustrated by the following quote from (unfortunately) Eldritch, regarding the song Nervously, which I co-indentally found back when I wanted to find an early post I made on that forum:

It's a shame that dVTB has moved back into the other forum, since it would be nice to hear his passionate defence of this track. Only for it to be trashed by a curt one-liner from Zeus, of course.

I guess something like this (taken from THIS forum) is what Eldritch must have meant:

patrick wrote:

dVTB wrote:The Survivors

A very impressive combination of intelligent, sensitive lyrics, set to beautiful, rich music. My love for this masterpiece is so huge, that I don't consider people who dislike it PSB fans.

To be fair, you don't seem to consider anyone PSB fans, let alone people who dislike that 4:30 of garbage.

These repeated remarks at my contribtutions, despite my request to quit doing so, continue to come from a certain 'Patrick'; someone I don't know at all, but constantly reacts on my comments... Remarkable, to say the least.

Perhaps the following quote explains it?

Anyway, I'm personally quite excited about the new album being round the corner. I'm so looking forward to slagging it off and winding up quite a lot of people. Such as dVTB who'll surely love it.

Zeus On The Loose, 3 November 2005.

It must be obvious.

Slagging is the whole point of Zeus and of that Zeus forum and it's exactly why I left it. Zeus slagging off PSB, launching attacks at other people's taste, going on about how unsuccesful and irrelevant PSB are, how old, how bad-looking etc, etc. It's supposed to be *interesting* It's in fact the same record on repeat.

In the meanwhile, I understand more and more why Zeus was banned from this forum. If only he would also stop bothering us with his cameo's as well

Go run your own 'quality forum' with 'high-level', 'intelligent' contributions only.

He's a control freak who really has no friends so he manipulates people and feeds them his bad ideas and thoughts.

dVTB wrote:I am currently under attack

three posts are hardly an "attack"...

dVTB wrote:As expected, this discussion is now also noticed on That Other Forum, where I am currently under attack. for alledged 'gossiping' about this forum.

How very postmodern.

Janet Street-Porter wrote:
Where is Glenny4 anyway? I haven't seen him for ages.

I think he is in love

Pertan wrote:I think he is in love

*insert Labrador joke here*

Seriously that's nice to hear. I suppose he won't return until his post count is challenged.

dVTB wrote:As
These repeated remarks at my contribtutions, despite my request to quit doing so, continue to come from a certain 'Patrick'; someone I don't know at all, but constantly reacts on my comments... Remarkable, to say the least.

Patrick is not Zeus, the writing styles are obviously different from each other. Besides, why don't you ask the mods here if you don't believe - they can check the IP addresses easily.