squirrelgrease said:

I tried to make myself into your avatar!
[Edited 5/19/09 20:22pm]

ZombieKitten said:

That was funny.

squirrelgrease said:

why is it that when i find a way to organize everyone's complaining, nobody wants to complain anymore?

Anxiety said:

GLOW IN THE DARK UNICORN
once it's posted, conflict ceases!

Anxiety said:

sunshine is the best disinfectant

plus they think you're one of us.

stanleylieber said:

gabba gabba

stanleylieber said:

stanley you hit the nail on the head right there

i told them they should just start their own website and kick off anyone who even comes close to saying something negative

imagine how dull that website would be?

1000 threads about how great Prince is

yawn

wildgoldenhoney said:

you know whats cool about this thread is you were able to lure the people accused of being haters but consider themselve constructive critics to be contained all together in a less than active forum here and of course they are all present doing the same old song and dance as what they would usually do and say in that other more active forum that is based around that so called good old (he was good until 1993) artist done converted to JWism. Way to go!

And it wouldn't have been complete without you here saying this!

stanleylieber said:

let's get this party started right

PEJ said:

And here you are...right on schedule with your same old song and dance.

Anxiety said:

Do most people even know this thread exists? A couple of people said that it should be over at the P:M&M section cause that's where all the pos vs neg threads started at. Maybe you could put up something in the sticky section at P:M&M and let members know that if they want to put up a "Where's the Love?/Where's the Hate?"-type thread, they MUST come here to this one already created. That's just my on the matter. One thing is true, this topic will NEVER go away. I wish it would but it won't.

purplecam said:

well, i put a link to this thread in all the love/hate/fam/hater threads i locked in P:M&M. that should be a tip-off, no?

and i really think it's significant to keep this topic in site discussion, because it's not about prince. it's about our posting habits on this site, which happens to be dedicated to prince.

I this thread.

Anxiety said:

I hear ya but what happens when those locked threads with the link in them start sinking due to new topics being created? After say, tomorrow, they may not be on the 1st page and many people may not even care to search. It's a suggestion cause this is a valid discussion.

Anxiety said:

I respect that and it's cool with me.

PEJ said:

Don't you dare think for one nanosecond that there will be no more crusading in P M&M

Anxiety said:

You are SO WRONG on this! It might be about our interaction with each other but we are discussing Prince's actions/lack thereof so it ultimately might be about someone bitching about someone else's bitching but it's all about Prince!

How is this topic less about Prince than people arguing about which songs they like better than others?

Prince has nothing to do with our opinions of his work, either.

stanleylieber said:

but those topics are directly about his work.

THIS topic is about how we communicate in that forum, whether we're talking about a song or an album or a tour or a hairstyle or whatever. THAT has nothing to do with prince and everything to do with the culture of this site.

purplecam said:

well, the thread is flaming

Anxiety said:

But relegating this to the non prince forum whitewashes the Prince forum of "negativity" allowing only positive threads to be posted.

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[Edited 5/20/09 10:38am]

MadCute said:

That's true. The positivity police now knows exactly what they have to do to get a thread locked and moved.

Oh, come on, Anx pulled a swifty, and it was quite smooth...

What this is really about (and therefore does really belong here) is the closing of NPGMC, Housequake, AMP.
You can call it whatever you want, but the subtext of these arguments is really all a battle to stake out territory (smell the dog-piss, anyone?).
The org's independent character and identity hasn't been the same since NPGMC went under or, for that matter, since the Collective did away with all the other major sites.
Now, the org has become the battleground for "who/what is the real Prince fan".

I vote Imago..

stanleylieber said:

Oh please! If the LPAB really thinks this thread is going to keep me from saying what I want...when and where I want...they are seriously in for a very rude awakening!

To everyone who has posted about the placement of this thread and the possibility that my actions could be part of some vast insidious conspiracy, I just have one thing to say:

You got me.

It's true. I'm a spy hired by an international positivity fam cabal, and my mission was to undermine prince.org by posing as a moderator.

And I would have gotten away with it, too. IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU DAMN KIDS!!!

Well played, you guys. Well played.

Let the victory dance begin: