Moving discussion here from this thread:
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=11200.msg492806#newI am already assuming that any and all forms of disdain towards them are going to be branded "Piano Street snobbery", but I am hoping that there are others of the same mind as I am.
I think all of these threads need... "weeding" and placed onto a seperate board or something so those actually wanting help/nformation about something or whatever else don't have to sift through all of it.
I'm not saying at all that people shouldn't be allowed a bit of fun, or boredom relief or whatever other purposes these threads serve. But I think allowing them to take up the majority of the space where they are at the moment kind of drowns out any intelligent discussion. I will agree with the poster in the linked thread that at times this forum has been known to be a snobs playground. However, not everyone with half a brain is a snob and not all who engage in discussions use them as a platform to ram their self-serving beliefs and judgements down everyone's throat.
When you first make a post on the performance and repertoire boards, the note above says
"intended for professional pianists and piano teachers as well as piano students and amateures at an advanced level", and I'm failing to see how all of this trolling particularly serves the aforementioned. Does it make any of us better pianists, teachers or students to know who shares our Chopin Ballade preferences, for example?
Last point is that I'm really not trying to be a kill joy, sometimes I post in such threads myself, I just really think they need shifting into their own corner. There have always been such threads hovering around, but they used to be interspersed amongst other things and as such fine where they were posted. But I think lately the sheer quantity of them is getting ridiculous.
Topic: All of these "favourite" threads.