It's like being dragged into Revolver after years of absence through good living, then seeing all the same old, pathetic, clubbed-out spastics dancing to Boogs, trying to re-live times that are OVER.
IMO - it's always been way too harsh on the moderation, way too narrow in debate, and way too thin on anything interesting for years. Mods who'd never even played a gig jumped on anything that was even remotely 'offensive' before it could even get interesting. I'd say this is the main reason why the great majority of DJ's and true scene movers & shakers left here in droves years ago. (Well, that and getting healthy, getting out of partying, and running successful businesses may have had something to do with that too).
It served a purpose, but the purpose is now dead. A combo of Facebook and a scene destroyed by relentlessly whipping dead horses, a plethora of atrociously shit DJ's that just lack general 'craft' (the term DJ itself could be debated here), way too many people that had never really done anything scene-wise that are held in such high regard here, as well as an influx of terribly uninteresting, unoriginal commercialised dance music somehow being regarded as 'underground', and a general lack of integrity across the board, have all contributed to both this scene and this site's slow and painful demise.
The scene was once exciting, it was once grand and new, but no more. Melbourne Beats shitting itself is but a natural progression of years of mediocrity. People these days would rather listen to Justin Bieber than be bored into a coma by a sludgy eight minute breakdown mixed poorly by some wanker who doesn't even know what a musical phrase is.
Personally, I'm back to watching bands. There's some exciting new shit going on there.
It's just the truth. Take it or leave it. I really couldn't give a fuck.
But in closing, there's only one more thing to do...
GET A STICK AND FUCKING KILL IT.
We made a decent amount of money for a good cause. Better than sitting around thinking your better than everyone else.
