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Post by richard on Feb 27, 2020 8:23:10 GMT
In the 'Can it be true?' thread (where else? š), there was a little diversion into 'Why don't more members post?' I think Colin (onlyabba4me) stated truth: it has all, pretty much, been said before over the decades - at least for those of us who are not new, or not newish, fans. Very occasionally, a fresh little angle crops up, and that is very welcome, of course. Otherwise, it strikes me as being much like some restaurant's restricted menu: familiar dishes that appear in predictable rotation. Still worth eating, but perhaps a little over-familiar. And there is no easy way round this because the ABBA chefs have not been able to perfect their new recipes yet.
To be fair to members who don't post, perhaps a lot of them pick up on this 'dilemma'? So I won't recommend what a classical guitar forum used to do (and maybe still does): stipulate that all members must post at least once a month - doesn't seem a lot to ask, does it? - otherwise their membership will end. I'm sure most new members intend to post, but that intention just sort of fizzles out, I'm guessing.
But at least a few of us need to post, otherwise there is no forum even for non-members to read!
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Post by angela on Feb 27, 2020 12:23:52 GMT
I post every now and again, I think there probably isn't much to post about unless someone says something that you like to comment about.
It would have been different if these forums were around when ABBA were active.
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Post by edmfio76 on Feb 27, 2020 17:14:06 GMT
Whilst plagued with anxiety issues, I do enjoy conversing with other members of the forum. I agree with Richard, although we may tread on familiar territory we always raise interesting topics of discussion. I find it quite stimulating interacting with others. It is important that we keep the forum going with further views and comments.
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Post by josef on Feb 27, 2020 19:25:39 GMT
In many years to come, it's possible that new fans may still discuss ABBA and it will all be new to them, you know?
That's assuming there will actually be new fans?! Are there forums discussing The Beatles, etc?
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Post by richard on Feb 27, 2020 20:29:14 GMT
Angela, yes, just imagine the buzz of an ABBA forum in their heyday!
I had ignored the social/community aspect, Edmund. And ABBA, even if it often entails going over old ground, is much more interesting for most of us than discussing the weather! Though sympathies for those experiencing extreme conditions - I don't mean to be insensitive.
Yes, there are Beatles forums, Josef, and you get the same topics coming back quite often, inevitably more interesting to newer, younger, fans, I guess. But I found the discussion about whether it really was George and not Paul (as would be assumed) playing bass on 'Old Brown Shoe' rivetting. š
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Post by edmfio76 on Feb 27, 2020 23:49:38 GMT
Josef, I hope new fans will still discuss all things ABBA as you mention in many years to come. I for one, Richard, am more interested in discussing ABBA and their music than the recent atrocious weather, Coronavirus, Brexit, general gloom and doom and the rest. You ask yourself whether all this on the news is over-hyped. But I too sympathise for those who have experienced the worst flooding for years. I'm deviating from the topic of conversation on this forum which is all about ABBA.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2020 9:19:11 GMT
For the time being I've decided to only Post, at ABBA Chat, when I feel that I have something to say.
Today I've Posted in the 'Can It Be True?' Thread, as I felt that I had something to impart, that may
interest some other ABBA Fans.
I don't think it would be fair to try to force Fans to Post here, by making it a condition of their Membership.
A lot of Fans are really nervous about Posting. They may worry about saying the 'wrong' things, or getting
negative Posts, from ABBA Fans, who don't like what they've said. I Post here quite a lot, but in 'Real Life'
I'm really incredibly shy. Cripplingly so. I hardly ever mix with anyone from outside my Family. Even with
my Family, I feel very uncomfortable, if there are more than 1 or 2 of them in the room with me.
However, I don't feel too shy to Post. Even so, I worry that I'll get negative responses, as I sometimes do. It
is amazing what can upset or anger some people. I cope with that, by never responding, to Posts that criticise
what I've said. I just carry on Posting as if nothing has been said. I do that for a 'quiet life' and to stop myself
engaging in quarrels. Also, it is unpleasant, for other Fans, if Threads turn into rows...
However, I know that a lot of ABBA Fans, (here), are too nervous and self conscious to Post, and no-one should
try to force them. It would be wrong to put pressure on them. I just wish that more ABBA Fans did Post here, as
most of us would not dream of being unkind about what they've written...
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Post by richard on Mar 9, 2020 14:19:58 GMT
Well, although I mentioned that one forum stipulated that members should post once a month at least, I didn't recommend it. Shyness is a good point; and I also think it's natural to sometimes feel a bit reluctant to post for fear of negative response/s. But such fear is groundless - the 'worst' you'll get is fairly low-level disagreement, which is only to be expected occasionally.
What puzzles me is that although there isn't much, perhaps, to be posted about ABBA at the moment, there's still plenty to discuss about other artists and other aspects of music, and yet this section of the forum has been pretty quiet, too. Of course, a lot will depend on members' ages and interests, but it occurs to me that before I joined the forum (last June, I think) Chuck Berry and George Martin, the Beatles' producer - two notable people in the history of popular music - had passed away, but no mention here, if I'm not mistaken. But, as I said, that's simply down, to a large extent, to our interests.
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Post by richard on Sept 18, 2020 9:19:17 GMT
Because of the slowness if this forum, someone can post, at length, in Vietnamese, about gambling (?), and that post remains the most current in the section it appears for a day or more. Didn't someone with a different name do something similar a little while back?
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Post by foreverfan on Sept 18, 2020 10:45:57 GMT
Very true...š where are the mods!!š
I wasnāt going to look incase of bad link to virus or something, but curiosity got better of me, and without being ā phobicā totally intelligible to 99.99 % of us I guess...
at least its caused a discussion ..lol
Things will pick up again once new stuff is out there... eventually..
I thought the airing of MM2 on UK TV for the first time, wouldāve kick started something, but alas...on 2nd viewing, I was disappointed, , it did very little for ABBA in the charts, but did propel the Album Soundtrack to number 1. Its such a specialist chart, I doubt it had to sell very many to get to number 1, a few hundred ?
so we wait, meantime I would like to read views of the new fans , and their thoughts, it would be like going back 40 years ! Or more and our oldie fans first thoughts...so come on newbies get finger to typing.. we can discuss..š
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Post by gary on Sept 19, 2020 8:02:22 GMT
Yes, could the moderator(s) please not only delete the āVietnameseā posts but also remove that posterās membership?
By the way, I saw a new post by Colin (onlyabba4me) on another forum (ukmix), so he must be OK. Assuming he did end his membership of abbachat, I wonder why? I miss his chart-related knowledge.
I also saw part of Mamma Mia 2 the other day. It only confirmed my opinion that itās almost complete rubbish. It makes the first film look like a masterpiece!
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Post by richard on Sept 27, 2020 17:36:00 GMT
Should we laugh or... what?
Whatever else it is, it's pathetic.
Of course, you know what I'm referring to.
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Post by HOMETIME on Sept 27, 2020 18:45:59 GMT
It's annoying - spam always is. I block the user each time and the block function allows me to hide their posts. It's a temporary solution until there's a way to block the source of the nonsense.
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Post by Alan on Sept 28, 2020 16:06:22 GMT
Zeebee is the moderator here but he hasnāt been online since 10 September. Iām guessing heāll remove all of those posts/members when heās next on.
Roxanne is the admin, but sheās not been online since November 2019.
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Post by richard on Dec 19, 2020 16:58:02 GMT
All of us on this forum, no doubt, eagerly anticipate the new ABBA songs in 2021. Indeed, I wonder what this forum will be in 2021 if those songs, for whatever reason/s, don't appear. At the moment, it seems to me that the forum gets about one post, or less, every two days.
I know it's a much bigger forum covering any and all groups and artists, but the contrast in activity is still startling: the Steve Hoffman Music Forum feels to me like it gets more posts in a couple of hours than this one gets all year! Yes, perhaps a slight exaggeration, but even so...
Because of it's much larger membership base with, consequently, more members willing to post, an ABBA topic, when it it crops up now and then on the Steve Hoffman, will likely get more of a response there than it would here on ABBAChat.
So, if only another extra six or so of ABBAChat's nearly 500 members would post somewhat regularly, in addition to the few that already do, that would help.
By the way, of the more regular posters, I notice Josef, and Edmund [edmfio76], haven't posted in a while. Hope they're well, and that they haven't lost interest in the forum. But even if they have, all the best to them.
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