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Originally Posted by Chris85

Since when "engaging on a deep level" is a requirement? I liked the song, didn't like the vocals. That's why I said (unfortunately) this song won't be as iconic for me as some of the past songs in a similar genre (genre that I love). Your reply hurt me and made me leave the forum for month. So you can see how you invited conversation. Despite coming up with critique thread I still feel that honest opinions if they aren't praise are not welcome here.
If you can't tolerate comparisons with old Ayu despite appropriate contexts maybe it's your personal issue. And nobody was forcing you to talk.

You're still allowed to say those comments, as you can see from people still saying it in this thread. As I said in the original forum announcement, I acknowledge that people are using the forum for all kinds of different conversations and lumping them all into one thread just isn't working these days, and it isn't a question of just "learning to ignore each other". That just doesn't work.

I apologise that my original post addressing your critique of the song caused you to want to leave the community, although I didn't think my words were harsh at all. I was genuinely curious about what the answer would be. And in the end it has inspired me to create a place where people can have the option to just simply critique if they want to, or go deeper with it and actually discuss that, and so I hope that it opens up options from "Deal with your personal issues/don't talk" to "we have a thread to discuss exactly that", which is kind of what a forum is for. We have the space for it.

And yes, usually I don't post very often. I didn't realize that the post would set off such a discussion, and it has made me understand the current community better from reading all the different responses to it.