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Rules about posting won't solve any problems, but will create a lot of new ones. The best evidence of that I can give is that we've never had any reason to even think about having posting rules anywhere else on the site. And guess what? Short of some spammers who would never follow a rule in the first place, we've not really had any problems with over-posting or anything else. A lot of these concerns really only seem to exist on the Lyric boards. Not sure why that is exactly, but it's a fact. The complaints/problems/issues we get elsewhere have little to nothing in common to the problems that crop up here. Ironically we've never had a single complaint to date of any kind whatsoever on the MP3 board. I hope I don't jinx it. So it's not an obvious answer like "telling people what you think about their stuff is the problem." And anyone who ventures to the General, Songwriter, Musician or Industry boards (and even occassionally the Mentor board) knows there's plenty of heated arguments happening on those all the time. But it's always different than the negative things that have come up historically on the Lyric Boards. It may be no more complicated than the fact that those boards get more posts and at a certain point, problems come up. If that's the case then finding ways to improve and increase activity will turn out badly if they succeed.

We do put a lot of thought into all this. And for those making statements that the Lyric Boards aren't moderated, ask yourself how long a typical problem goes one before someone intercedes? I think you'll find there's a LOT of publicly silent moderators on the lyric boards. In fact, it's the amount of email we get from Lyric users/members that often causes me to raise these issues here and no where else on the boards.

The feedback is useful. I may post a general discussion on how best to utilize the Lyric boards when we have the new ones up. (They allow for things like Sticky Posts that always stay at the top). We haven't updated yet because the people at the software company haven't been responsive due to the holidays and also because we have a few concerns we haven't had answered such as properly transfering existing posts without losing search engine placements for them all. If we discover that there's some issue with that, we'll archive this entire board and launch a new one separate of it going forward. We don't want to lose these old posts. It's a great history of a grassroots movement that I think will be more important in a decade or two than people may realize it is right now.

Thanks for the feedaback,

Brian