"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

Meta-discussions about the Prog community and the state of its fora of interaction: These range from the self-congratulatory (as included in the r.m.p FAQ, part 1), emphasising how much online interaction has helped fans connect to find and share information, support, and new music, to the pessimistic, criticising the low rumours-to-fact ratio of some fora, the amount of poster animosity to one another or to particular artists, the destructive behaviour of individual users, and the restrictions of moderated mailing-lists or CMC in general. Recently, such discussions were concerned particularly with an alt.music.yes poster using the name 'yesdick' (he also briefly appeared in r.m.p as 'progdick'), whose articles, while Yes-related, were inundated with swearwords (see Appendix A.2). Threads discussing how to deal with him ranged from "Important message.....take heed Yesdick" to "AMY Could Learn A LOT From Yesdick. Really", and also spilt over into r.m.p. Similarly, some posters' aggressively negative attitude towards Yes's latest keyboard player, Ivan Khoroshev (who joined after Rick Wakeman's departure) was also criticised in discussions, again showing the differences between cosmopolitans (who were willing to give the new member a chance), and traditionalists (who were staunchly in favour of the 'classic' Yes keyboardist).	Bit 30
Such meta-discussions also help foster feelings of community membership, however, as they allow participants to describe the forms of interaction they would like to see on 'their' newsgroups and mailing-lists, and can create sentiments of belonging and cooperation as members see the community attempt to improve itself in a consensual way. More simply, these discussions help participants get to know each other as individuals, not merely as fans.¹⁷ This area is thus closely related to questions of identity -- as Fornäs states, "the rise of rock has built upon certain new psychic structures, emphasising narcissist desires through the self-mirrorings in peer groups, audiences and sound/beat-webs. Later developments have rather expanded than abolished these desires" (115).	Bit 31

Meta-discussions about the Prog community and the state of its fora of interaction: These range from the self-congratulatory (as included in the r.m.p FAQ, part 1), emphasising how much online interaction has helped fans connect to find and share information, support, and new music, to the pessimistic, criticising the low rumours-to-fact ratio of some fora, the amount of poster animosity to one another or to particular artists, the destructive behaviour of individual users, and the restrictions of moderated mailing-lists or CMC in general. Recently, such discussions were concerned particularly with an alt.music.yes poster using the name 'yesdick' (he also briefly appeared in r.m.p as 'progdick'), whose articles, while Yes-related, were inundated with swearwords (see Appendix A.2). Threads discussing how to deal with him ranged from "Important message.....take heed Yesdick" to "AMY Could Learn A LOT From Yesdick. Really", and also spilt over into r.m.p. Similarly, some posters' aggressively negative attitude towards Yes's latest keyboard player, Ivan Khoroshev (who joined after Rick Wakeman's departure) was also criticised in discussions, again showing the differences between cosmopolitans (who were willing to give the new member a chance), and traditionalists (who were staunchly in favour of the 'classic' Yes keyboardist).

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Such meta-discussions also help foster feelings of community membership, however, as they allow participants to describe the forms of interaction they would like to see on 'their' newsgroups and mailing-lists, and can create sentiments of belonging and cooperation as members see the community attempt to improve itself in a consensual way. More simply, these discussions help participants get to know each other as individuals, not merely as fans.¹⁷ This area is thus closely related to questions of identity -- as Fornäs states, "the rise of rock has built upon certain new psychic structures, emphasising narcissist desires through the self-mirrorings in peer groups, audiences and sound/beat-webs. Later developments have rather expanded than abolished these desires" (115).

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