Originally Posted by
juicefree20
Godfather...
I was just stopping through to wish everyone a belated Happy Easter, but saw this thread at the top of the page. I'm sorry to see your Easter ruined by yet more nonsense & as Marc mentioned, I'll never forget that July either.
One would believe that with what's going on out in Florida, Tulsa & the world in general, that music is the one place where we would find just a little peace. I find it rather ironic that some of the same people who laud The Supremes for bringing the world a little closer through songs of beauty, spend so much time tearing the ladies apart with venomous words of their own.
I support you & second & third your motion, with one caveat...
Rather than to blow up entire threads, I believe that it would be fairer to simply deal with the trangressors as opposed to doing away with entire threads & I'll tell you why.
I was quite young when The Supremes first hit big & as they were a Girl Group [[albeit the most important one), I was too young to care about who sang backup on what, or who played on what records. At that age, it simply wasn't that important to me.
But despite the bickering between a few, there are often some excellent information shared in those threads that folks such as myself never knew & personally, aside from the jewels, the gowns & the pumps kind of fawning, I have found much of the MUSICAL discussions to be very informative & would have to see all of that wished away into the cornfiled simply because of a few 50 year-olds who simply can't control the more obssessive part of themselves.
So, rather than throw the baby out with the bath water, I feel that it would be fairer to all concerned to simply look at those threads, see who's instigating & baiting, then deal with them appropriately. After all, it's not as though we can't predict who the players will be, as they'e been doing the same crap since that section of the forum was created specifically for Motown, after the other Motown Forum went under, likely for the same ridiculous reason/reasons.
And truthfully, at this stage of the game, ALL have warned or chastized by more respectful forum members whenever one or more have chosen to turn those threads south & have chosen to place their own personal bitchfests over that of the greater majority of the forum, even innocents whom simply wanted to discuss the music of The Supremes, sans all of the name calling & baiting.
I would simply suggest banning ANYONE, be they friend or foe, who denigrates ANY MEMBER of The Supremes, or posts some provocative "informative" link, which is solely designed to anger another forumer, or links to information which leads to ANY SITE which contains "news" which pits one Supremes faction against another.
This is some 40 year-old ish & it's absolutely ridiculous to think that folks, most of whom are on the plus side of 40 or 50, continue to argue over this same stale shit as though their respective positions are going to reverse 30 - 45 years worth of history.
I support your & the spirit of your thoughts, but when I consider many of our most respectful forumers, i.e. Carlo & many others, I'd hate to see an entire section blown up because of the behavior of the same 9 or 10 people.
It's easier to get rid of all of those whom willingly & constantly contribute to dragging these threads down & from where I sit, this includes the trouble-makers, as well as the "peace-makers", whom have proven themselves rather adept at shit-stirring in their own right, as they've contributed to keeping the fires burning.
As the very soulful Dorisa Daye once sang...
"Que Sera Sera...whatever will be, will be..."
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