Least Favourite song on O (round 2)

[Mr Benn.]

Well three Cheers for cheers darlin' coming in at a still spectacular last place.
Let the second round start Prague is now in the running.

[Greenmeanie]

My vote's for Prague, I never really got it.

[Timeé]

stop this at once.

[Gatsby]

is this really necessary?

im tired of these types of threads.

[atagher]

lol, i dont have a least favorite song

[Timeé]

hmmm as you are an "eskimo baby", mr.benn i think that makes you ten times as unqualified to make a condescending thread about damien...?

[Greenmeanie]

This isn't my argument but ^^ what an unpleasant, arrogant post. The undertitle of this board is "Here you can talk about anything to do with Damien Rice". Get over yourself.

[Timeé]

"Here you can talk about anything to do with Damien Rice"

well this is a little misleading as you can't actually discuss his private life

[Windgirl]

I can;t believe older chests has the most votes that is one of my all time favorite songs!!! with like some o fthe most poetic and thoughtful linges. " We all seem to need the help of someone else to mend that shelf of too many books, read me your favorite line" how can you not fall in love with a song as true as that!

[verenita]

Originally Posted by atagher

lol, i dont have a least favorite song

i agree with this...
but, if i have no time to hear the entired album, i pass delicate
verenita

[Bumpman]

This is wearing a little thin actually. Everyone's always going to have their own opinions, but these straw polls just degrade the level of discussion. It's a pisstake on a spectacular level.

[Greenmeanie]

...So don't take part. I don't see your problem.

[Timeé]

Originally Posted by Greenmeanie

...So don't take part. I don't see your problem.

Did he say he had a problem???

[Greenmeanie]

yes.

[Bumpman]

Originally Posted by Greenmeanie

...So don't take part. I don't see your problem.

It's not an issue of just me having a problem that no-one else has. One thread that a few people don't want to take part in won't really be having us lose sleep or anything. But the issue at hand is that the 'Damien Rice' sub-forum is supposed to be exactly the kind of place where you don't conduct a twelve round straw poll. The idea of this particular spot is that someone can just log in to the site and see what damien and the band have been up to of late. The reason we have an 'everything else' forum is for exactly this kind of thing... Threads that a few members will take part of, but which the majority of people don't want to see when they're trying to get to the important news.

And even aside from that, even if it were in the section of the website where this sort of thing is supposed to happen, it's just not worth cluttering up the place with this sort of thing again. There's enough pisstaking and timewasting on the site without having to deal with it multiplied by twelve in the section where the good stuff is supposed to go.

[jemarami]

This is not actually about what song we like the least, the last one thats gonna be standing is the one we love the most!

[Gatsby]

Originally Posted by jemarami

This is not actually about what song we like the least, the last one thats gonna be standing is the one we love the most!

exactly, and we have already done this numerous times before

[Mr Benn.]

Wow alright I'm sorry as an unqualified eskimo baby i give hereby give up on this thread. Any one who feels like they have the authority to continue this thread and wants to can.
Meanwhile i'll go back to listening to the album while i try to potty train.

[Greenmeanie]

^^ Don't let it get to you Mr.Benn. Judging by the amount of votes, plenty of people approved of your thread.

[Mr Benn.]

Should i keep this going?

I hadn't realised it'd been done before. I'm really not saying that any of the songs are in any way or form rubbish. its just a perlonged way of finding out which people see as the favorite.

[jemarami]

Originally Posted by jemarami

This is not actually about what song we like the least, the last one thats gonna be standing is the one we love the most!

What I meant were, I don't understand the wrong about this poll? I don't think anyone here dislike any of Damiens songs. I love all songs but I sure have my favourites and think this is one way to find out which one I could not live without! So please i wanna go all the way, and those who don't want to....don't!

[Greenmeanie]

Well said.

[Bumpman]

If you need some objective facts then here they are;

Firstly, no-one specifically has an issue with anyone else saying that they don't like a particular song, in fact that's exactly what this forum is about. The problem is that polls are the lowest common denominator. It would be far more interesting if you were to have an opinion based thread that allowed people to give weight to their ideas rather then just letting it all be prefaced by some statistics.

Secondly, This whole thing is in the wrong place, under normal circumstances it might belong in the Damien Rice section, but having twelve polls one after the other is just taking up space in an area that's supposed to be about valuable news and some well formed opinions which are condensed into a readable and honest dialogue. These polls should ideally be condensed into one thread, in the everything else section, a section which is totally devoted to this sort of thing.

Thirdly and least importantly, if you've been here for longer then a month or two you'll realise that it's easy to get tired of these survivor series. They just seem so irrelevant to what the music is all about. If you have an opinion on what's good or bad in the music then that's great, and people will be happy to hear it. But it seems a little disrespectful to think that the quality of the songs can be boiled down to a straw poll that will probably provide about three seconds of intellectual stimulation.

And if you hadn't bothered to read that rant, here's a bottom line; as upsetting as I find your poll, you're entitled to have it, but not in this section, and not in twelve threads. One thread in the everything else section won't step on so many toes.

[Bumpman]

Originally Posted by Mr Benn.

Wow alright I'm sorry as an unqualified eskimo baby i give hereby give up on this thread. Any one who feels like they have the authority to continue this thread and wants to can.
Meanwhile i'll go back to listening to the album while i try to potty train.

Also, I wasn't trying to talk down to you, so there's really no need to act as if your posts would have been better recieved with 500 more posts under your belt. Despite your feelings we do try to keep that sort of thing to a minimum around here.

[WhatAmIDarling?]

Wow. This thread is exhausting. I'm gonna go eat a very large brownie...

[Mr Benn.]

Originally Posted by Bumpman

Also, I wasn't trying to talk down to you, so there's really no need to act as if your posts would have been better recieved with 500 more posts under your belt. Despite your feelings we do try to keep that sort of thing to a minimum around here.

I wasn't saying you were it was the person that said that because i was a new person i had something like the tenth of the right to have an opinion or something like that.

I do see where you're coming from. I just thought it would be a good conversation starter. I know it's not the most intellectualy challenging thing in the world but it does give people an option to say there part. For example if their song had the most votes they can say why they think it should stay.

Also i have been here for more than three months i just at first didn't join then secondly forgot to even be very regular in my visits so i missed all threads like this.

[shyatt3]

Well Mr. Benn, I actually was enjoying the thread, but I'm a wee little eskimo as well so I suppose I haven't much say nor experience of past posts here.....oh well.

[Timeé]

yeah but youre a cute baby as apposed to a scary lookin monster.

[Bumpman]

Originally Posted by Mr Benn.

I wasn't saying you were it was the person that said that because i was a new person i had something like the tenth of the right to have an opinion or something like that.

I do see where you're coming from. I just thought it would be a good conversation starter. I know it's not the most intellectualy challenging thing in the world but it does give people an option to say there part. For example if their song had the most votes they can say why they think it should stay.

Also i have been here for more than three months i just at first didn't join then secondly forgot to even be very regular in my visits so i missed all threads like this.

That's all fair enough, but my point remains the same, If you want to have this series of polls, just do it in one thread in the everything else section, because despite the fact that some people will like the idea of it and some won't, it's just wasting space here, this area is the only one on the site where you can specifically avoid this sort of thing. And in all fairness, if someone tells you that you have a tenth of the right to have an opinion because you're new, you don't have to dignify that with an answer, let them hang themselves on their own ignorance. Just don't degrade yourself to the level of name calling (or I'll twist your arm and steal your lunch money, you big stupid head).

[Gatsby]

postcounts mean f all here.. its quality not quantity