badger wrote:these are the dubstepforum awards after all
i'm sure you've all seen how unreasonably upset and ungrateful people can be on this forum about the most minor of things. the amount of anger from some people just at creating this sub-forum was unreal so i think it would be sensible to make it clear to people that the award at least has a grounding in dubstep
you could call it
Johann Gambolputty-de-von-Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crass-cren-bon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelter-wasser-kurstlich-himble- eisenbahnwagen-guten-abend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwürstel-gespurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumeraber-schönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittleraucher-von-Hautkopft of Ulm Awards...
...People would still bitch about it rather give it thought why it was called that way or just simply vote,especially now that the forum has like 500000 times more users than it used to last year.It's just the thing with mass (online) communities.
The problem with genre-describing terms nowdays is that half is journalistic platitude and the other half is not questioned by people,who are too lazy or too uncaring to actually know why it's called the way it is or where the sound actually came from...
the award might have it's grounding in dubstep (or more precise the dubstepforum) but still, a lot of dubstep came from garage & 2-step, not everything came from jungle. Most of the dj's nominated can be inserted under house & garage better than anything else, so do most producers,some labels even more, as they might even release house & garage and not some personal abstraction of it.Nonetheless the fact that no matter what it's still happening exclusively on dubstepforum, so there will always be grounding there.
One other solution which would be more work for you mods is: If people complain so much about this section of the forum, and many just purely hate without any grounding on their disliking, then why not have award exclusively for this section, those who want to vote , come in here and vote, just as you would when entering the general discussion part of the other forum. Personally i would vote on both award, as it would well be the case of many. But i don't see the reverse of this happening as much. Make 2 separate awards for people to vote.But i'm guessing this would even cause for further segregation amongst users...
Another point of interest is what would be done if people like shackleton or zomby who have such a personal identity in their tunes got nominated,their music is nothing but their own. In modern electronic dance music, most interesting producers don't fall under 1 specific lineage of music development or category
(i don't mean to create more confusion, just trying to make a point, why to stick with the simpler, is this time around, the best option)
House Section or House & Garage Awards ftw!!
edit: i find room 2 disrespectful, i'm guessing it's some sort of fabric or multiple floor dance refrence,it's not only dated, since a lot of these dj's are already playing bigger stages and rooms, but just the principle of it is not very flatterring for those who are nominated to receive an Award for excellency...