And I did say that I was a meanie.

Another day, another chipmusic.org thread.

those are posted in the right thread, ant1 started it purely for previewing up-coming releases.  it's no joke she really does have a release coming up.

I get the point of having a hype thread... But in this specific case, I think the best thing would be for the cm.o staff to reach some kind of consensus on whether it's officially frowned upon here or it doesn't matter.

As much as I don't really see a problem with creating one... Cm.o isn't my website. I don't own it and as such, I should probably act and post in such a way that the staff and members find acceptable.

That being said... If I start a hype thread about anything one day.... I'll do it on uCollective, lol

i think the main idea is that once your release comes out, you can edit the title and make it look like a bunch of people immediately give a shit about your new release, when it's really like, 10

the thing about "hype" threads, for me, is that they never work. in fact, they often accomplish the exact opposite of what the artist is intending, which is, they annoy me and then i purposefully avoid that person's music. if you spam me on soundcloud, i will go out of my way to never listen to your songs. if you post them reasonably and a friend tells me it's good, i will pay to download it.

so yeah, just post the music. hype is annoying. the end.

yeah it's kind of like a red flag for 'this is a thread that people hate'

Yea if people spent as much time listening to or creating good content as they do complaining about the lack of content, the internet would be allllllllright.

Also if a thread gets to five pages in less than two days, its probably time to stop posting in it

That's also a very fair point. Seems to be very true as well...although I am glad I've met so many people who's personalities work with mine.

And sketch, do whatever you like, and as long as its sensible, haters can hate.

So, just for clarification, though, and I just want to make sure this is correct: A two-track single doesn't count as a release, right?

If a person releases a two track single in the Releases section, in anticipation of a full EP, this is considered a hype thread, and is thus bad, right?

I always thought the main reason artists put out singles was to preview and build excitement about an up-coming full release, but that must not be true.

Now, I understood being annoyed by people posting a "mash-up" of short clips of an upcoming release in the Releases section. But actual release of full songs is bad too, if it is associated with an up-coming full EP release.

I'm honestly just trying to make sure I've got everything straight.

Edit: I've actually agreed with the whole "Only Releases in the Releases section" thing. Not with the whole "can't make any post on cm.o stating that a release is coming up", though...

i think forums devoted to microgenres are always going to be filled with fighting, cause what music we like is such a small part of our personality that the rest of it clashes pretty hard

also you fucking children and your goddamn pokemon games

What if there was a subsection where we all got along?

Thank you!

what if there was a place we could send saskrotch every time he gently derailed a thread

what if there was a sub section specifically for herr_prof to make us feel bad about who we've let ourselves become