lastmagi said:
However, my concern is that in the proposed individual bands section there will be an over-represention issue in the same way as the current section
Yeah, that thought had occurred to me as well. But I couldn't think of a way round it. Personally, I
hate categorising by genres (because I really suck at them, plus it's a real can of worms, plus I think they are largely valueless anyway... but that's another issue).
I don't want categorisation by genres, I would much rather find another way of dividing the forum, and my three sections was all I had been able to think of so far. However, Lastmagi makes a good point about the 'individual artists' section.
The only way I could think of getting around that would be to sub-divide the 'individual artists' section one more time, but... I don't know what into!
(There are a lot of individual artist threads that seem to revolve largely around pictures, but there isn't really any way of 'segregating' these, and it would seem a bit stupid to try and do so anyway, because pictures don't preclude 'serious' discussion!)
Hmmm, I was thinking about the Indies idea... to be honest, I find forums divided in that way to be a pain to navigate (for me, anyway) because I'm having to always remember whether a band is indies or not... And similarly with forums that have a 'VK' section. It confuses me. Bands are found in there that I don't think should be there. Are Dir en grey VK? (the age old question!!)... and there are a number of bands that used to be VK and then left that look. Also some, like MUCC, that do stuff with their looks but aren't 'typical VK'.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback everyone, keep it coming, I'll keep thinking, and so will the admin people!