Popularity Contest (Page 2 of 14)

could be mentioned for the 8 millionth time that cm.org was founded (and still is run) by former 8bc staff, we didnt like what became of 8bc, so we have a pretty solid vision of what we want for cm.org
hard to put hundreds of hours of work into a site for free and have it turn into whatever exactly 8bc was in the end

well, no one says you need to come here if you don't like it
and cTrix was known way before the charts, old-school demoscene dude

BAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA.

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Ahh. Anyway, I think that a lot of what people are wanting out of a "popularity contest" or "rating system" just kinda happens organically here, and the staff doesn't/shouldn't have to outright validate or endorse it. They can curb it in the ways that they do, but honestly the same thing happens here and will continue to: the "known" names will get a ton of love, it'll still be hard for others to be recognized, and I don't think a Like system or "Popularity Contest" will really do anything to change that, it'll just make it more visible.

I don't think "competition" works for everyone, but if that's what folks want, there should be competitions organized; I don't see why the whole site has to turn into one.

In general, people should just make interesting tunes and hope others are smart enough to appreciate it. *shrug*

my biggest thing about the ratings is people can bookmark their own songs and get a five rating right away.

seems kind of dumb

also it'd be nice if we could view the songs we have bookmarked in the past to make like a mini playlist while browsing the site.

Last edited by boomglitch (Jun 4, 2012 3:41 pm)

i agree with je mappelle.

and just because there is no ranking system doesn't mean people aren't ignoring unknown artists.

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i can relate to what you are saying, i miss sharing my tracks easily with a samll group of beans from 8bc that made similar stuff to mine......but i certainly don't miss the 90% bullshit on 8bc music wise. Its easier if everyone just makes a soundcloud. music is free to stream, comment, favourite, download and also it isn't confined to the realms of just being on a 'niche forum' if you like. So there's a chance lots of people will hear the stuff on there. Yeah i think soundclouds all good for me to be honest.

I think this is bullshit, and without to start flames, sounds like just a reason for some people to get their egos stroked. No one isn't listening to good music because it's not on the front pages/ doesn't have 5 out of 5 blue boxes, the good shit gets found because it's good eventually, and if the artist REALLY cared about being known they'd work their arse off to promote and spread it, or it'd just spread itself. 8bc felt like a fucking high street full of charity workers screaming in your face brandishing pots of money, and though I respect Sam hugely for his work trying to hold on to it and now starting ucollective, that is going the same way. It's not like there is stupid volumes of stuff here, and if you really cared about ratings etc, wouldn't you just post on ucollective anyway??

Ps, I'm not one of those here who is almost autistically pessimistic of change, I just personally think this would only be a negative