[koumori]

Originally Posted by hidekirby

I understand... I feel that one can feel more legitimate in asking for less negative comments on a fan forum than asking for more freedom to express negative ones. I've myself never complained about that and refrain to do so. Yet I really feel the forum has been quite peaceful recently as opposed to years ago. But it may be me being ok with the way it is.

Just to reiterate, I've been a heavy critic of Ayu myself (as a few members here can attest to) and I'm not against critique at all - originally I posted just about the intensity of certain wording, especially in light of 23rd Monster's lyrical content. I feel ultimately the real issue may be that some members go here to hype up her new and old work and find a place to celebrate Ayu, and others come here for that but also have a place to vent and critique where they can't otherwise.

It might be an idea to have two separate threads for releases to either hype up or critique it, not to split up people exactly (I'm assuming most will use both), but to ensure people excited about a release do not feel drowned out by critique that isn't even meant to be addressed by them, and vice versa. The issue with news threads could be that it forces it all (including news updates) to be in the same place, and some people just have a very specific idea of what they want to use the forum for...

I'm just throwing out ideas, really. I'm open to suggestions generally, even if it's that people feel they should just ignore each other and everything is fine as-is.

This doesn't mean we can perfectly cater to everyone at all, but with a fanbase only growing smaller over time just due to time passing, these sorts of discussions are even more important imo.

Thank you for posting by the way, it does mean something and I did post for input in the first place The drastically different takes have been really insightful.