[Seyance]

Naa, there are some good heads that used to write longbar and made the transition successfully. Orc, Bayou and Dominate to name a few.

I think the main problem was writing shortbar or 'normally' mirrored writing actual music and a bar was a bar of music. Where as longbar tried to argue that a bar was pretty much 4 lines glued together. Basically misunderstanding or re-purposing the use of the name 'bar' taking the writing of longbar away from writing music. I think for the majority of us which came up on this(shortbar) side of the internet that always just seemed dumb.

The second issue was the decorations, most longbar was written with clearly defined bolded parts and ridiculous grammatical embellishments pointing out the multi syllabics and wordplay. I always felt the writers thought little of the readers ability on longbar forums, you are writing for dumb people so you dumb it down. But the trap really is it did attract dumber people.

There is seemed to be a clear distinction to me in the types of people which generally frequented each kind of forum. Longbar forum's seemed to be more of a home to people who considered themselves to have a lot in common with the streets and more attempts were made to keep up a reputation of being a real life g. Which is why you see a lot of gunplay in longbar. Where as winning a shortbar battle seems to be really is based off intelligence and the voters are looking to see how creatively you can diss an opponent. Shortbar writers generally expect the voters to notice any multi syllabic, internal rhymes and wordplay without them being clearly earmarked as such.

The types of wordplay used by longbar heads was particular in such that it could be a word broken down and miss-pronounced because the grammatical embellishments made it clear that !!'THIS~IS~WORD~PLAY'!! Forcing the reader into having more of an understanding of what the writer was going for, good or not. But the facts were most of these wordplays would not work if properly said out loud. Which again took longbar further away from the writing of wordplay actual music.

Also longbar forums have always been home to the dumbest fucken wordplay names, shit like Nawn Since and Awe Sum. But one thing about them is though funnily enough, longbar sites generally had more audio heads at a better level and were more active on that side.