@IvorDewdney I think you are perfectly within your rights for this indulgence and it is nice to read your enthusiasm. I’d also like to add my thanks for these polls / threads, for they have been a true saviour over the last year. I know they have been going longer than a year but they have taken on a new level since the first lockdown, even if I’m only speaking for myself here, which I doubt.
The HGATR threads have galvanised focus on the music boards. I personally have found lots of new music this way and / or given artists a chance and liked them after I’d possibly already made my mind up incorrectly sometimes.
Even if I don’t like the featured artists, I love reading when someone posts one of those posts, which these threads allow the perfect playground for. It feels like DiS has been through a storm of late and I miss the lack of interaction with some DiSers who have stepped away, I hope that is temporary in many cases.
For a bunch of strangers on an obscure music forum these things should not really matter, but they have given people a reason to get out of bed, to express themselves creatively, to argue and make up, to roll dice, to laugh at a screen, to listen to new sounds.
Not up to me of course, but I’d love to see people return and I’d love HGATR to continue, for over an insanely difficult year, these threads have been a huge positive…
More please.
