Sweeping changes to RV? And, no, I'm not complaining. Are you?
 

First off, this site is good for most beginning Audio heads to elevate, period. I'm not a beginning audio head, but I'm still experimenting with styles and rhyme schemes. The feed here is positive enough so that you'll still see your mistakes, but are willing to continue to drop in order to elevate.

Neway...I was looking around RV today and some things seem real out of place.

#1...Why is there a member's mugshots? Seriously, who cares? After LK came back and started calling everyone who isn't ugly, ugly, it just turned into a place for people with low self esteem to SPIT on everyone else. What does it have to do with rap? I went on rapmusic dot com and "mugshots" isn't a featured forum like it is here. Does anyone care if someone said so-and-so was or was not "cute" in real life? NO. I say delete that forum.


#2...The LL is a popular place to post. I say make the entire LL a "anything goes" forum, but make it less obvious on the board. Strobe could make it a sub forum or make it hidden altogether.


#3...Phenom said this before and I agree with him. Make the Audio Section the premier section of this site. Post it at the top of the board and make it flash with neon glowing lights.


#4...Combine Hip Hop Talk and Album Reviews and assign someone to regularly post articles in there for review and discussion.


#5...Have a featured artist forum with interview and PICTURES. Again, member mugshots is newbie-ish. THe Featured artist forum would have interviews and info about up-coming projects from RV members.


#6...Strobe, you really need to be more clear about what's expected from your MODS and even how to become a MOD. Nepotism just isn't cutting it anymore because people who are willing to do things get overlooked. *awaits "Q, you just want to be a mod* comment. WRONG. I'm saying, why not post a stickie explaining what a MOD does, and how to become one relative to that particular forum?


**Anything that isn't rap related should be relegated to a sub forum and tucked away from main view. I'd like to see SONGS moved up to where the LL is now.

RV is a good site, but can be better. People who are here to just talk trash and not better the site through rapping need to leave, period.

For all the "trash" some think I talk, at least I drop regularly on this site and help mad audio heads with their music.

DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE OR LEAVE.


Also, naked pictures in sigs should NOT be allowed. I'm not talking about chicks in thongs. I'm talking about chicks makin their butts clap and seein the lips of their vaginas. It's inappropriate and should not be allowed.

That's how I feel about it.

Let's get to the task of making this site about:

RAP

i agree with about 75%. the last thing of the pussy lips showing just shows how this site doesn't even follow it's own rules. the main site rules state, no porn!! plus we have kids to immature for that, so i say if you wanna see it, then do it on your own time. i think gfx should stay were it's at, but audio would be nice if it was put on top. the article thing sounds dope as well

Nudity is not allowed on vb bulletin boards anyway. All you'd have to do to get it removed is pm strobe. . he runs a crap load of site's and I'm pretty sure he's up to date with the rules.

I don't see the problem with Member Mugshots. Yeah, some people will always be like, "Yo, you're ugly as shit!!" but if you really care what people like that think, then you shouldn't be posting your pictures anyway. Unless you already have that low of self esteem to where some random people on an internet rap forum can ruin your day, then I don't see you can't just put up with some of the random comments and wait for somebody who actually wants to know what you look like. It's not that big of a deal. I think it's kind of interesting to see people post all this crap and then see who is ACTUALLY posting. If that's not interesting to you, don't go to the forum. It's that simple.

I disagree with making the Lyricist Lounge a sub forum or an "Anything Goes" forum. I don't see the problem in having a forum where you can just post (for the most part) whatever you want and have active discussions with people on this site about something OTHER THAN rap. Yeah, this is a rap site but is it really that big of a deal to have a forum to just talk about anything? If you don't want to participate in the discussions, you don't have to.

I can't speak for strobe on your questions specifically directed towards him, so I won't. . but it's really not that hard to figure out what's expected from mods.

About the Member's Mugshots...

I used it as an example of how people come on this site and DO NOTHING. I'm saying that forum is for people to post pics, get a few comments, and move on. I'm looking there and people who do nothing but argue in that forum about "who is cuter" do the same thing all over this board. That's my issue. Those same people contribute NOTHING to this site in the way of raps, tutorials, or anything useful. So, self-esteem isn't the issue. I'm not about to argue with some ignorant S-O-B about whether or not people have said I look good in real life or not. How asinine is that? I almost don't want to come on this site because of the sickening B-S that plagues it right now. There's no motivation for me to rap. And, what's worse, this is a rap site! I'm not saying that's anyone's fault, but what's the point of celebrating trash talk when it isn't being followed up with battles, audios, raps, or anything related to rap?

Yea...I'm venting a little bit because I see this site turning into the bull --ish it was 2 years ago when people rarely dropped audios and just ran around talking trash. We've come a long way and I don't want to see a couple ignorant people ruin that.

I'd be down for that, seeing as how I already mod HHT.

So people can post pictures of themselves....

News flash....There are people on every site who talk shit about the way people look in these forums.. Its no big deal...


No.
This is how it was before, and it created 10 times the modding currantly required with the anything goes forum in place. Removing it would be a stupid and backwards move...



Yep.. Couldnt agree more...



This would clog the HHT forum up with album reviews and create confusion. Compleatly pointless idea...



Should probably be a subforum of the audio songs section. But again, I agree compleatly...


Eh? :rolleyes:


The LL is not for rap related topics you stooge... Thats what Hip hop talk is for....



I compleatly dissagree....

What the fucks your problem with a bit of nudity... Dont be such a tight as......No wait......... :laugh:

Nevermind...

^^^ I agree wit that. Audio should be the premier section becuase text is not at all 100% reflective of what someone could do in tha booth. Tru talent or skill is best shown through audio, not text.



^^^ Good idea. Better organization than what we have now.



^^^ My favorite idea. I think this would be really popular and it lets other peeps in on who tha artist really is why they do thing the way they do.




^^^ I'd like to know how to become a mod.



^^^ I think its a little inappropriate but i disagree becuase that's part of hip hop....women and so on.

Meh. Some of your ideas are good. Audio on top? Doesn't matter to me. Album Reviews is so rarely posted in that it's pointless anyway. Mugshots is cool, and actually can help with getting personals in battles, since in RL you clown on appearancs occasionally anyway. Leave LL because sometimes I don't ALWAYS wanna have t work on a song or something. It's nice to chill, but if you're so intent on people coming here and not doing anything ten have somekind of requirement to view the LL forums. But some people can't rap and want to just experience culture or write topicals or whatever so I think LL is fine. As for the mods, meh I don't even know who the mods are so fuck it. And I got a question...what exactly is contributing to the site? Cuz I haven't done anything but drop a few OMs and like 4 beats. So I guess by your standards I'm useless here. Go figure.

Let's see here. What's contributing? I'll tell you what ISN'T contributing.


#1...Person A comes back to RV after basically 2 years of being gone, which wasn't a bad thing.

#2...Person A immediately begins beefing with RV members again.


#3...Person A doesn't battle, doesn't drop raps, doesn't drop tutorials, nothing.


#4...Person A sits around and talks crap about people who've actually been on this site, actively helping to better it for the last year.


^^That is a useless person as far as RV goes.

FUCK YEAH Q.... SOunds good to lets take care of that shit and make RAPverse really about RAP

rofl@this pathetic net fag....GET OUT OF THE HOUSE MAN ..n get a life
i know u dont like me bein here cuz i humiliate u on a regular basis
but fact is,u PREACH on here more than u RAP
u make 9403294023943204293 posts on here daily...about NOTHING
u spend ur life on rv,n when u aint logged in ,somethin tells me u're browsin the forum as a guest....the rest of the time u're on aim tryna either find a net bf,or tryna meet ppl off of rv rofl.....ANYONE who wants to be on this board can be on this board.....there are 49032942039423230 members who aint doin shit,but u want to refer to me as "person a" n talk about how i dont contribute shit to this site? lol i battled on here enough for me to come on here whenever i feel like,i can do whatever the hell i want whenever the hell i want.....some NET FAG isnt gonna tell me what to do......like seriously man,i KO'D u ,and exposed u for bein a fag...LET IT GO
...this constant complainin,whinin..its fuckin pathetic man....fag or not
n its just a fuckin rap board ,get a fuckin life outside the internet man....
like seriously,do u even leave ur house? or do u just watch the morning inspiration on BET n post on here the rest of the time...rofl

NO DOUBT...

I'm bout to take it back to the audio forum


Oh and...thank God for ignore...cuz some people who post do nothing but rag on other people and contribute NOTHING, NOTHING to this site in the way of rap or improvement = waste of space.



Tiz all


RAP or SHUT UP!

I did that minus the beefing. So I guess I have no right to come to RV.

pathetic man....get a job,go to school,find a man,volunteer so SOMETHING ..get out the house...like seriously

dats da new movement right there.... RAP or SHUT UP

Yo this bitch postin above me..LK..you talk to much, hush ya lips...and about the ideas most of them I agree with, apart from the LL one, the rest great Ideas..specially that one about featured artists....and also I add to this list and say we need a:

- Perhaps an RV chatroom, so no need for pms or waiting fo sum1 to reply...?..maybe..jus a suggestion

- RV Radio - I dont know how to work it but if you could get it ill be down to be a host....

but good ideas Q...pm this link to strobe

rofl@net fag dick rider

RV chat room?

That would just allow people to make their dumb comments faster. But, it might not be a bad idea. It'd be like yahoo, but on RV.

RV Radio?...I wonder if it's possible to stream it from this site so you can listen while you roam this board.

only change RV needs (or more appropriately...the only change that RV is READY for) is moving the songs forum to the top, like most serious boards do.

but most RV members don't even take RV seriously, so you can't expect strobe to.

^agreed. but if alot of those things were to be taking into action it probably would be taken seriously. by eliminating all these useless tourneys that nobody shows up for..eliminating the anything goes forum..because its pretty much the same as lyricist lounge..and really...crew forums?? i think you have to earn a spot in the crew forum..5 crews only...and only if its an active crew ei: battling,dropping text open mics,poetry,songs,feedback. and things like that..
if its just a crew of people with a sub forum of nothing but freeposts then get rid of em.
i dont see why we have a beef forum in the first place..people beef in eachothers threads anyways so leave it. i dont see why there's two different text arena's...for ones with more wins and less wins? nah..just combine it..if u eliminate alot of the shit thats not necessary in elevating people as MC's then i think it would decrease the amount of idiots on here and increase the amount of people whom are serious about rapping. and then maybe everybody could get along on a professional level

i've said that in every e-argument i ever had... "im not gona argue for 2 pages..make a track or stfu" LOL

u just sayin that cus ur gay..............everything else is okish

Is that right?

ok


ur right...

I wouldn't mind pictures of a guys ding-a-ling in the middle of my screen on a rap site


Sure



:nono:

hhmmmmmmmm.........that's the perfect statement about RV to be real.


niggas are so busy beefin they completely missed out on the big picture. thanks for putting it in perspective.

i agree with 5 and 3....

the rest of the stuff.....well...your just being pretty much idiotic about

I agree wit most of it i mean this is RAPverse...and that what its for is RAP for the real emcees who want music ta be there main shit..if u wanna just talk on a board there's lots of non-rap boards for that where u can just talk...but the ones that post WAY more threads in LL than they do in the audio or open mic forum aint no emcess and if they are they're too fuckin lazy ta follow their dream they just wanna spend they're whole time talking bout rap but that aint gon get u no where so this should be a place for RAP and nuthin much more...and i agree the songs forum AND open mic forum should be stickin out WAY more..but member mugshots should be kept..cuz seriously wouldnt u like ta see the face of some of ur fav emcees on here..i defitnly would...but im not sayin not anybody here that doesnt post audios aint a real emcee some of ya'll just use this site ta talk but do ur rap shit offline and thats ok wit me.. but if nuthin else u can atleast drop an open mic...im an emcee and i havent released much becuase i had ta get to the level i needed ta atleast be at and i just reached that as soon as i drop a comin up collab ima start droppin lots more..and i dont have time for o.m's right now, i just dont wanna sound hypcritical...but yo this site also needs ta be advertised WAAAAYYYYY more seriously if u was just some random person that was an internet junkie, would u know about rapverse if u didnt know about it already??? think about it