I made a thread about Muscles. Before making it, I searched for "Muscles" and found only Fabulous Muscles. So I figured okay these guys are all depressive homosexuals instead of friendly fun ones. Seriously though I did the search more than once and found the same thing. I also searched for "Muscles" and "Lemonade" together or other things I thought might turn up results. I was incredulous, because the album is so great.

AFTER making the thread, and finding it had been deleted a short time later, I did the search again. And got results. They were all responses to other threads, but I still got results. It seemed beyond weird.

I don't know if there's an explanation for that. But besides the fact that an absolute anti-redundancy rule with regard to threads about particular artists and bands is so fucking retarded and counterproductive in a forum like this I'm getting a headache just considering it for a moment, there's never been a thread made about Muscles.

And I want to know why my thread was deleted.

Hey.

You accidentally posted this in the forums instead of in a private message to a mod.

If I had to speculate on the motivations of our benevolent overlords, I would guess that your thread was deleted because its title bore no relation to its contents. I know I certainly clicked on it only to roll my eyes in boredom and stab furiously at the back button.

But who can really say?

Edit: Looks like your thread was moved to the electronica/dance forums. You may have had trouble finding it there because, again, its title contained no useful information.

Is that what people are concerned about? Losing time between clicking on a thread and reading its contents?

Even if the thread title doesn't have the word in, I would have thought it would have shown up in a search. It contained the word "muscles" several times. But hey, so it wasn't deleted. Good news.

Still a cataclysm of an awful rule. People struggle to find like some new little band that hasn't been written about before and so we get almost no new discussion. Nobody wants to post on page 20 of the Deerhunter thread. They just don't.

Mods and rules should encourage posting and encourage new threads. All of the rules and most of the salient behavior I've seen from the mods (not all of course) is the kind of stuff that stifles new thread-making. Punishes it, almost. Having to try and figure out whether some fucking asshole will giggle to himself and click "delete" on whatever you just wrote because you didn't search the archives hard enough for a conversation that touched on the topic you're bringing up? Not cool. Not going to help the community grow or improve.

There's no reason to have multiple threads on the same topic. Why is that so hard for you to grasp? When you make a new post in an old thread, that thread is bumped to the top of the forum, and if your comment is sufficiently interesting, you can be sure someone will read it and respond. I don't think this discourages participation at all, and it's a pretty standard practice for a well-moderated forum. Over-moderation bugs me too, but I rarely see evidence of it here, except for the occasional overzealous FKA move.

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ha, muscles is awesome.