Party is good and promising to be great. DJ is spinning the great tracks. Two or three dozens of great looking avatars are there. Ongoing chat is interesting. Club is loaded with particles and effects. Bandwidth meter just managed to fall out from the red, and almost nobody is gray anymore.
Then you hear it:
~~*-HOOOOOOOOOOO-*~~
Dammit! Idiot is in the house. Problem is, HOOOOOO never goes alone. It's always followed by an another one, and another… and another… And then comes that giggle in retarded kid's voice, yeeeeehaaaaaa, woooot and probably something else. Have I mentioned the beloved ~!!!AIRHORN!!!~? The retarded idiot is inspiring more idiots. Out of nothing, what promised to be a good party turned out to be cacophony of cheap sound effects. What was the great audience is now a hideplace for a few immature gesture-jerking freaks. They think they are adding to the atmosphere. They think their gestures are cool, hose cheap sounds they got in their noob days.Those same people would rather die than wear freebie shoes from their noob days. Whyd they think freebie sounds are ok then?
OK, you think, you know better than them. You know how to mute them. They are not saying anything interesting anyway. Sure if you mute them, they'll turn to gray shadows so you'll have to watch if you're trying to make some photos of the party. Or you can go the other way and mute the sounds in the mixer. That will do.
But it won't do. Club is full and we all look good. Primcount of all the attachments is hitting the ceiling, new animation is being loaded every few seconds. Bandwidth line is peaking most of the time. And you know, audio stream is the last in the stack of the things to be downloaded. So each time somebody fires up a sound gesture, your stream drops to make some room for the stupid sound. You don't hear the effect because you muted them all, but you don't hear the music either.
After all, you use your friendship with club manager of DJ to get the stream's URL, logout and continue listening the show from the desktop player. Shared experience, eh? Well, you have to watch who you share your experiences with.
This makes me thankful that I rarely go to clubs :D
this is a even bigger problem at live shows. There are always loads of people making A LOT of sound gestures.
Good thing someone bring this up :)
Quaintly, c’mon… you’re missing the fun! We’ll shot them all and make the partying fun again!
Mira, I hope at least some of the club owners and hosts will see this and do something.
*keeps her default kiddie laugh and super long hoooooo*
Some places gestures are appropriate & other places not so. I am lame enough to enjoy a "I love this tune" & " this Dj rocks" when i am spinning. but i understand the arguement against them
gestures orgy… you can only hate it and hate it…
I try to mute the most frequent “users” in the club, usually…
I feel your pain. I have politely tried to tell gesture spammers their gestures are spoiling the music or live performance, but being the mature grid denizens they are this causes them to just spam the gesture more. It seems mute is the only way to go since being considerate is out of the question for the majority of these people.
Prioitize the mp3 stream in disadvantage of the *FEIERSCHWEINE* samples? That brings a whole new meaning to the term "Quality of Service". ;-)
Sisou, things are a bit different when a DJ is using effects combined with the stream. But in that case it’s much better to use them in the stream directly from the broadcasting software, in a way that radio jingles are being played.
Noirran, for some reason with asking politely not to litter suond space you only provoke more of it. Some people are simplyu immature.
Torrid, if you think of asking LL for a bit of client imporovement, I thought of that too. It would be nice to have an option to prioritaze tasks in the client, epending of what one is doing. I’m afraid to even think about the amount of work that would require (probably solving the whole shpagetti mess of the code).
I was most pleased to find an “I love this tune!” gesture that was TEXT only! This way I can express appreciation without having crap sound ruin the very music I’m lovin’.
Though…I admit….I DID buy a sound one…and I’ve used it.
Achmed the dead terrorist saying: Silence! Silence! I KILL You!
Hmmm… it sounds like I should write a short tutorial on how to make a simple text gesture.
The only gestures I use are a text-only "I love this tune" and another text-only "Applause" for live shows. I also mute anyone who spams multi-line ASCII-picture gestures. Those are nearly as annoying as the sound effects. The biggest culprits are often club hosts.