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Tennessee
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I joined a few years ago and originally started posting a lot about reggae and metal to share my love of those genres. However, there's little to no engagement in most users' journals, and several moderators censor and abuse their administrative capabilities to bully new users if they don't agree with them politically about an issue or have anything to say. Simply put, the website is more about reinforcing a far-left status quo echo chamber than it is about music and making people feel welcome, and they will edit and manipulate posts of people who don't have those administrative powers.

In short, this is a community that thrives on abuse, discourages actual dialogue and has very little engagement with music-based discussion. Participate at your own risk.

Date of experience: May 21, 2022
Florida
1 review
9 helpful votes
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This is a Lech Mazur scam designed to drive traffic to his city-data scam. If you're lucky, you'll be "spam-banned" within a day and you won't have to spend any more of your life than necessary on this idiotic excuse for a ripoff. Stay away.

Date of experience: January 3, 2013
Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been a contented member of Music Banter for twelve years and I would like to correct some of the negative comments that have been posted here on sitejabber.
Firstly, Music Banter is free, so it shouldn't be accused of being a rip-off. Secondly, one reviewer complains of being banned for promoting his music, which is unfair to Music Banter; the site explicitly explains in its rules that it is NOT a site for self-promoting your own music. As the site name suggests, it's a site for people who'd like to chat about artists, albums, instruments etc. and it fulfills that function very well.
There are clearly deliniated threads for music, politics and other popular topics, although it's in the nature of things that these distinctions are often blurred over, just as they are when you are chatting with friends. And that would be my metaphor for Music Banter: a group of people talking about things they find interesting, but with the added bonus of quick access to a vast accumulation of album reviews, artist recommendations etc.
Traffic on Music Banter has been a little slow recently, but trust me, if you follow the normal kinds of forum rules and are not offensive, you will soon find yourself swapping opinions and recs in a friendly community of music enthusiasts. But yes, if you are looking for a site so that you can offer your own music to a wider audience, then you should look elsewhere to do that.

Date of experience: June 1, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam Scam Scam
June 2, 2022

Don't trust these people with your money, they'll blow it on cryptocurrency then blame you when it crashes.

Date of experience: June 2, 2022
Maine
6 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Oh my gosh! What the heck! Biggest music group? More like biggest scam ever!

As bad as city data, same system, like city data made this... but, I got one pro about this so called forum...
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Pro:
The layout is well done, colorful, and nicely colored, it's more better colored then the forum layout city data used too.

Cons:

They banned me for no reason, I did post ads about scratch and Roblox, but I was only doing that to publish this instrumental to one of my many songs, linked here: https :// storage. Cloudconvert. Com/tasks/cd18fa1b-40c9-4ddb-b4d2-ef6326ade33f/Need%20to%20do%21%20Instrumental%20. Mp3? AWSAccessKeyId=cloudconvert-production&Expires=*******404&Signature=lk2lA2Fjp8L%2BLpO13KwL%2FktZsIY%3D&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%22Need%20to%20do%21%20Instrumental%20. Mp3%22&response-content-type=audio%2Fmpeg

There limits are terrible, 15 posts to get a link to something, what scamming!

Bans are crazy here, they don't give you even a reason:/

The people there are just country boys drinking beer and sitting outside most of there lives, while i'm a musician/reviewer who was just starting making instrumental versions of songs and instrumental songs.
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I don't recommend this site, although I see a decent layout, the site is the worst thing ever!

Date of experience: July 7, 2021
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Gay and $#*!ed
June 1, 2022

The following member(s) of Music Banter are gay and $#*!ed: Marie Monday, Exo, Frownland.

The following member(s) of Music Banter are NOT gay and $#*!ed: The Batlord.

That is all.

Date of experience: June 1, 2022