META: Can we have a serious discussion about shutting down Just Announced?

[atomic]

Everyone should just post in my Whisk(e)y thread or one of the other intoxicating threads I have discovered and developed like my own personal garden.

I don't drink whiskey.  We should have a Mad Dog 20/20 thread.

[sweetcell]

you have got to be kidding me...

If that's a serious question, you clearly don't get Julian.

[Unsanity]

The JA thread is the reason I started coming on here. Looks like I am not the only one in that boat. Its the first thread I check when I log on. I do enjoy pretty much everything else on this board though. I think its ok to post some relevant discussion/commentary in the JA thread as long as there is a show announcement somewhere in your post.

[Vas Deferens]

The JA is the most popular thread on this forum.

Solution for you: don't click/read the JA. Why do you even care? You live in Richmond...the thread's not even for you.

And its basically, at this point, 4 or 5 people posting a bunch of show announcements for concerts no one would even consider seeing.

[RatBastard]

And its basically, at this point, 4 or 5 people posting a bunch of show announcements for concerts no one would even consider seeing.

I wonder, has there ever been a show announced that NO ONE has attended let alone considered 'going seeing'?

[Julian, White Poet WARLORD]

The JA thread is the reason I started coming on here. Looks like I am not the only one in that boat. Its the first thread I check when I log on.

The JA is the most popular thread on this forum.

Guys, I appreciate -- and am so humbled by -- your affinity for Julian's America, but let's deal with this concert listing menace right now and how people can better allocate their time by having meaningful discussions with other boardies!

[Julian, White Poet WARLORD]

And its basically, at this point, 4 or 5 people posting a bunch of show announcements for concerts no one would even consider seeing.

I wonder, has there ever been a show announced that NO ONE has attended let alone considered 'going seeing'?

I would wager easily a third of the shows posted about in the last 12 months had no boardie with 10+ posts in attendance.

[stevewizzle]

Solution for you: don't click/read the JA. Why do you even care? You live in Richmond...the thread's not even for you.

julian = ratbastard?

[atomic]

And its basically, at this point, 4 or 5 people posting a bunch of show announcements for concerts no one would even consider seeing.

I wonder, has there ever been a show announced that NO ONE has attended let alone considered 'going seeing'?

I would wager easily a third of the shows posted about in the last 12 months had no boardie with 10+ posts in attendance.

I don't know.  Agazhel, KillSally, and ShowlistDC seem to go to a ton of shows. 

[sweetcell]

to answer the OP's original question: no, we can't.  let's, as a group, find the collective strength to move on.

[ggw]

...let's deal with this concert listing menace right now and how people can better allocate their time by having meaningful discussions with other boardies!

Basically, you would prefer people allocate their time to "meaningful" discussions like your "look at me, I'm drunk" thread.

[Hexenjagd]

I propose that since this is a board for a music venue, that all non-music discussion and threads be deleted immediately and anyone who talks about anything other than music, be banned for life. 

Jeez, don't you people use Facebook or Twitter? 

[Julian, White Poet WARLORD]

...let's deal with this concert listing menace right now and how people can better allocate their time by having meaningful discussions with other boardies!

Basically, you would prefer people allocate their time to "meaningful" discussions like your "look at me, I'm drunk" thread.

Its not "me," it's "we," brother! I would like all of us to be looking at each other's drunkeness! It takes a village!

[Julian, White Poet WARLORD]

I propose that since this is a board for a music venue, that all non-music discussion and threads be deleted immediately and anyone who talks about anything other than music, be banned for life. 

And in your alternate proposal, we would only be discussing IMP shows, yes? Ostensibly, this "board for a music venue" wasn't created to provide free advertising for Fearless Leader's competitors, no?

[RatBastard]

Solution for you: don't click/read the JA. Why do you even care? You live in Richmond...the thread's not even for you.

julian = ratbastard?

Wow and I thought people had tried to insult me here before!