I think it deserves its own subforum. The topic is active enough. Might keep things organized. Old/dead links would sink to the bottom. People can make request topics which would be seen more easily (make a topic such as "Request: Interpol"). Specific uploads could be found just looking through the forum instead of sifting through the topic.

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I like this idea.

Yes.

Very good idea indeed.

Not a bad idea.

Yes.

eventually we need to make a searchable database of everyones music and quality of said music available for members only . . . =-O!

Yeah, good idea.

I will probably make a list I can upload and PM to people for requests (unless you guys think we're past the whole 'people Google the new Lady Sovereign, see it here, sign up and beg thing').
We should also have a sticky with a bunch of different file hosts and their different merits. SendSpace just doesn't cut it anymore when you've got multiple downloads in queue.

The other reason this is a good idea is that discussion of a particular album or artist will stay in the one topic with the upload rather than clutter up the one topic we have.

If you do add a sub-forum for this, can you keep the Googlebot out? That would be super cool.

Some of those people actually contributed though (and we just ignored the others).

That seriously.

Why not just have download links in certain place with the posts about them elsewhere?

Seems like too much work/complication. Would making the forum restricted help? Might not be necessary though.

At the same time, though, it advertises what goes on there. The RIAA isn't above suing anyone, I honestly think we got lucky lasting as long as we did back at GD.

I know being out there in Google's cache is plenty useful, but we have to be kind of smart. In the beginning it wasn't too bad, because everyone was posting obscure stuff or imported LPs or what have you that typically fly under the radar. (In fact, when I first started posting in there, I was too nervous to even post anything commercial...it was all radio rips and legal tapes from trade-friendly bands) Then we started filling requests for stuff like Pink Floyd, and started seeing mega-popular names popping up in the thread and it made me stop and think, and eventually I stopped posting records at all. I've survived from the earliest days of Napster without so much as a angry email, I don't feel like ending that streak. For awhile I was doing the same thing, asking for stuff like Bob Seger, but the topic had run its course so successfully that I never stopped to think about it being a problem until later.

I can get what I need from other places. I've hardly ever used the topic for requests of my own. But I do like to post shit in there, and the posters are the ones who are going to get in trouble. It's inevidable that the wrong people will catch on, in my opinion, if they're continued to be given a way to find it.

That's a decent argument. If we're going to make a sub-forum for it, we may as well do our best to protect each other.

what about having everything in that thread within the code tags? Would that help at all?

yes + use anonymity services

Pretty good idea. So would be having a searchable data base but that sounds like a bitch to set up.

How about making a thread where everyone makes just one post including all of their albums (editing their post when they get something new). You can just search within that topic.

I'm rethinking how hard this would be. Any of you cats know PHP/MySQL?

Is this idea dead or what? I'd really like to see a subforum!

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Isn't this just like the hub, only on the forum?

Good idea, though I probably wouldn't use it. Make sure to use the CODE tags