June7 said:

So do you think its healthy for the forum to have so much MJ crap all the time?

SquirrelMeat said:

What do you suggest?

luv4u said:

I suggest what I suggested at the top of this thread. An MJ sticky. It would be nice if the MJ fanatics (and I say fanatics, because I'm a big MJ fan myself) could regulate themselves, but they obviously can't.

No matter how many notes you put at the top of the forum, they keep clogging it up. There are now some members who are only here to post on MJ threads! Doesn't that say something? The man hasn't made any music for 7 years! Theres a sign!

Its obvious from the two threads in here that people are fed up with the sheer volume of threads on subjects repeated over and over again.

You never answered whether you thought it was good or not to have all these MJ threads?

Are you saying that you can't think of a solution, so therefore the best thing is to just let it keep happening?!

PS: Other than the MJ threads, you guys do a brilliant job!

There should be one MJ sticky and one Madonna sticky.

having one sticky 4 all aspects of a certain child molester and drama queen would b more sufficient than 10 million threads clogging up space 4 those looking on information on other artists. Sort of like other p sites do.

Lothan said:

An MJ sticky and a Madonna sticky???

Then people will ask for a TTD sticky, a Mariah Carey sticky, Janet Jackson, and so forth and so on..... Then there will be people saying "well if they can have stickies why can't we"?

luv4u said:

i c ur point, however there r more MJ and madonna threads than any of the ones u mentioned. janet could b looped in2 the mj thread or having a jacksons sticky that would cover every one of them

VoicesCarry said:

Again. Hear, hear!

SquirrelMeat said:

It appears that you can’t win for losing.

I could put up stickies for threads regarding MJ and Maddy (or any other much talked about artist), and that would please half of the people. The other half would string a rope around the nearest tree for which to hang me on while chanting “An MJ sticky on a Prince website! Blasphemy!” (it’s happened!)

Of course I’d have orgers chiming in on why I would do such a thing… then, of course, others would list reasons why I should or should not do things… get my drift?

In the past, when things like this happen, I have made an MJ sticky and redirected Orgers to it. For some it worked and for some it didn’t. Such is the way of the world here at the Org. I have come to this conclusion: You can’t fix what is not broken. You can make minor repairs, such as shutting down threads that get out of hand, or redirecting peeps from one thread to another thread already created, and locking up the dupe… etc. But even that is not a cure-all. And, in all honesty – it’s truly not “broken”…

So, then I leave it up to you… author of this thread (and the author of the other thread complaining about MJ threads)… in this twisted irony, you have, in fact, created another MJ thread! I know the subject matter is different, but we’re still talking about MJ or Maddy, or _____ (insert oft talked about artist here)!

In a perfect world I would suggest for people to read the title of the thread, decide if it’s what you’re interested in, and then decide to open that thread or not. I would suggest that people take a look on what’s being talked about in this forum and decide whether or not another thread is needed on this particular artist, or can the same thing be said in a thread already created – then make the big decision to create or post.

Another scenario: Believe it or not, we moderators do not look at every thread or post on this site. If there is flaming going on “for two days” or so, report it to us by using the “report to moderator” button at the bottom of each post… it then flags us to check out what’s going on! Not once has anyone done so in the thread that was brought to our attention (on the other MJ complaint thread…), your help is appreciated when you can.

So, what to do about the current situation at hand? We need to look at the topic. We need to look at the sincerity of the thread – was it created just to create another MJ thread or was it a genuine interest thread on the artist in question? A lot of the topics listed in this forum on MJ are different and are sincere – so, a different thread is excusable and allowed. Yes, there are other artists worthy of discussion, but I have found that Prince fans and Michael fans and Madonna fans tend to visit the same sites or have the same tastes, therefore you’re gonna see a lot of threads on these artists.

With that in mind, let’s try to be a little more open to these things… no need to get so angry or upset. We, as mods, make every attempt to handle things that appear to cause concern to the Orgers on this site. Don’t think we aren’t aware of the sudden influx of same artist threads – that’s why the statement on this very subject is up there (hell, I wrote it!). We have not died, nor fallen asleep… we are on it. We are taking action when required, or letting it be when it appears that there may not be any rules being violated.

I hope this helped…