Plans for the future of Gamingforce

If this is strictly a money problem, and doing so would be better for the whole board, then I’m sure most Concert Hall members would agree with me that doing away with attachments would be completely fine. I have no problem really hosting any files I share on MU, RS or similar services. If the administrators wished I’m sure they could always just disable the attachments in the Concert Hall and other high-bandwidth areas while still leaving the option open to the other areas of the board. That way none of the members from other areas of the board would be inconvenienced.

If however the main problem is really that of worrying about possible future problems caused by copyright infringement, then perhaps splitting the Concert Hall section off entirely would be the best course of action. As much as I would like to think it wouldn’t be the case, if file sharing were to be prohibited, then I can’t really see many of the CH members sticking around and just chatting. I do however agree with the mentioned statements earlier, that the CH would become an easy target for copyright holders to take down if it was suddenly taken from the shadows, so splitting it off would probably be the same as deleting it outright.

That being said, I must say I feel a little conflicted over this whole matter.

On one hand, if at all possible I would love to have the Concert hall or at least some iteration of it remain on this server. Even if all attachments and sharing were to be prohibited I would still like an area on this forum to discuss music with others. True, I suppose if worse came to worse I could probably find similar music discussion communities on other websites, but I would still love the Concert Hall to remain part of this board. I may be a minority amongst concert hall members here, but I for one do occasionally enjoy browsing through other sections of this board, even though I’m usually met with hostility and usually get disses for just about anything I say. If the forums were split though, I would probably end up just focusing on the new forum at the expense of browsing this one anymore – or perhaps vice versa.

On the other hand, I have always felt a little awkward when trying to participate in other areas of this board, and I can sort of in a way understand peoples’ hostility towards CH members who never contribute outside their sub-forum. I’ve also always felt the concert hall never really fit the “gamingforce image” either. It is really almost like night and day between most of the concert hall members and members from the rest of the board…

I really hope some sort of mutually beneficial conclusion can be reached on this matter…

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