That is a great idea indeed and would certainly help the situation!

funkaholic1972 said:

That is a great idea indeed and would certainly help the situation!

I think so too
It might help everyone step up their game of quality discussion

funkaholic1972 said:

I tried to make a separate thread about Tyka statement about remixing Prince's unreleased music. Which had some good conversation going on about MUSIC instead of death and conspiracies. It got shut down quickly by the mods as Tyka's statement about remixing was related to the ET online article/interview.

And now nowhere the remixing of Prince's unreleased music is being discussed, while I think that is a very relevant and interesting subject. I believe that people that are interested in Prince's MUSIC are getting seriously annoyed now by having to wade through pages and pages of theories and conspiracies about Prince death before maybe finding small bits of conversation about Prince's music.

2 forums: Prince MUSIC and Prince OTHER would be much simpler. It's annoying wading through multiple threads and forums since there isn't as much information and activity now. For some reason, about once a week another Emancipation album thread is started. Like it's understandable to want to discuss that, but why not post about emancipation on existing threads?

Mods, what do you think about locking a couple of the threads that are now 100% death talk, and guiding all death-talkers to one thread (this one: http://prince.org/msg/7/433457)?

The threads that could perhaps be locked (and de-stickied) are:

http://prince.org/msg/7/433259

http://prince.org/msg/7/433065

there may be others...

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(I also think splitting up the forums into "music" and "more" would be fine but as a relatively new member I have less historical knowledge about that issue)

[Edited 10/10/16 6:28am]

disch said:

I'm another person in complete agreement. For the most part, it may as well be called "Prince: A Smattering Of Music and A Load Of Bollocks." Pardon me.

*cough*

Time for change

bluegangsta said:

*cough*

Mumio said:

Militant said:

We're considering this.

Truly hope it ends up a done deal. Maybe the bullying/hating/nastiness that's been going on will go away if you do it. But I'm not betting money on it, there's a lot of people here looking to do nothing but cause trouble by and

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Yeah, and the bullying continues, and threads are being locked.

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Not directed towards you, Mumio, but just saying.....If someone has an issue with a certain thread topic, why not just avoid clicking on it? Seems like a simple solution, to me. However; there will always be those who just want to argue, regardless of what topic it is.

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[Edited 11/7/16 13:12pm]

NorthC said:

When Prince dies, you can hardly blame his fans for talking about it. And because his death came so unexpected, people will start looking for answers and create their own if they don't have any. It's human nature. And as for the music, let's be honest: there's not going to be new music to discuss. Ever. Again. We can only hope that the estate/family will release stuff from the vault but that too will be music from the past, no matter how good it may turn out to be. Until then, what are we going to do? Discuss his old albums, the name change, the JW conversion, the JB/Jackson guest appearance, the Make-Emancipation-One-CD game over and over again? That too will get old. I'm already noticing threads (Exodus vs Goldnigga for example) where I post a reply and think to myself, I've already said that somewhere else... The ugly little truth of the org is that after the initial shock of Prince's death is (for the most of us) over, all we can do is talk about things from the past.

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I agree. Some people are interested in different topics. Some people want to discuss Prince's death, and some people would rather discuss his guitar collection. I don't have an issue with either. Talking about a loss and searching for answers is just part of the healing process. Love for one another.