Plans for the future of Gamingforce

I'm not especially sure where the whole 'everyone hates the Concert Hall people' thing came from - sure there've been the non-personal complaints about CH using up server space with no wider participation (which is true), but I can't think of any specific examples of a 'proper' member biting the head off of a Concert-Hall-only person (barring the examples of the last couple of days where it's happened because of actual conflict instead of some kind of prejudice or whatever), so I agree with Shin that it seems like it's just a general attitude going around.

Of course the sheet music trading stuff would work fine with all the attachments hosted off-site and just links posted, but I see that the legal issue is the more pressing concern, and I don't think I'm alone amongst CH regulars in saying that while losing this particular sheet music resource would be a shame, it would be much more of a shame to see the actual community - that is, the regulars who post everywhere and get to know each other and get properly involved with the forums (the aforementioned 'proper' posters) - lose the boards altogether because of copyright violation that doesn't involve or interest you at all. Those of us only interested in sheet music can find other places to get it - there's no single resource as good as this place has been, but they're still there.

I think you'd find the place much tidied up if you just withdrew pdfs as attachments and moderated the place to prevent sharing of copyrighted
content - both the sheet music and the recordings (so pretty much 99% of the stuff that's been posted there altogether). That's a big change from the current TRADE WHATEVER YOU LIKE mindset in there at the moment, but some of the most interesting stuff I ever saw posted in CH was perfectly
legal - transcriptions Capnflav and Mercuzio have made, or those Pseudo made when he was still around. The same applies about those who compose their own music and share it, either to get some feedback or just to show off.

It's all stuff that wasn't available anywhere else and really shows off the talent of some CH members. Get rid of the illegal stuff, make the Concert Hall public, and after you lose the fifteen million members only interested in free sheets they'd otherwise have to pay for, you have a nice little group of
people with stuff of their own to share, be that a composition, a recording, a transcription, an opinion, or whatever.

I'd stick around for that, and so would enough other people to make it a viable section of the forum, I bet, plus it would get rid of all space and legal issues. A big concern would be that it'd need to be very heavily moderated to stop people still posting illegal stuff, either out of old habits or bloody-mindedness. That would be quite a huge task, but I think drastic action like that could even reinvigorate the forum and make it more a part of the overall boards this is probably wishful thinking.

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