itroitnyah wrote:How did we go from conversation about how dedicated we are to music to a conversation about the traffic that certain genres of music get compared to others? I'll just guess that somebody complained about how hard they worked on their music and they get considerably less traffic than somebody who works on a popular electronic genre
itroitnyah wrote:How did we go from conversation about how dedicated we are to music to a conversation about the traffic that certain genres of music get compared to others?
Patashu wrote:Hey guys,
Please go through the first 1 or two pages in the Music board.
Listen to EVERYTHING.
Leave a comment on EVERY TOPIC.
If everyone took some time once per week to do this, then the problem fixes itself
Alternatively: Before posting a song, listen to and comment on five other people's songs or more. This seems like a good rule to me so I will do it from now on.
Also, re separating electronic and acoustic music: Is Anamanaguchi electronic (for the NES instruments) or acoustic (for the rock instruments)? Are chiptunes similar enough to electronic to be put in the same board, or non-EDM and need to be put in the other board?
If you can answer both of those, go ahead and do it!
Makkon wrote:Separating the music section based on genre would be like an art forum separating threads based on medium. It's silly, especially considering that many musicians make hybrids just like I make art with mixed media. Even a two-way split between digital and real media is silly.
I'm not convinced that separating a forum by genre would solve the issue at hand: getting needed feedback in the music threads. What will, however, is the community as a whole having a desire to see others improve. Post in other music threads, listen to their stuff! Give them feedback, and let them know what they're doing right and wrong.
While it may seem inconsequential as an experiment to try the split, if it doesn't work out it's not actually easy to move threads back and forth.
I don't want us diagnosing an illness only to treat the symptoms. The only solution to this problem is to go to the heart: start posting more where you are needed, and post less in the spam threads.
Freewave wrote:Well tbh Makkon has a point that the music section allows subject (pony,non-pony) and genre tagging (trance, house, orchestral) thread titles which allows to differentitate. So if people follow that formatting they'll make it easier for people to review their stuff. Of course more subforums (I still recommend a general music discussion thread outside of technique) would allow some additional on-topic threads on MLR.
We likely should also have megathread for "review the track(s) above you" so people will get a guaranteed feedback and be able to spam their own track. It allows people to step to the stage in terms of showing off their music and also in how dedicated they are to reviewing. I think a million different song threads are part of the problem as few people LISTEN to OTHERS tracks. They see this place as a place to promote and it's not designed that way. Sometimes we work and operate best as a community and individually when we know other people are watching.
Mr. Bigglesworth wrote:I went to a primary school whose idea of music class was playing lil' plastic flutes for an hour. Did I ever mention I failed music for 7 years? Yeah...it wasn't through lack of understanding, more of failing to see the point in learning to play a little plastic flute. Seems silly now, but Tiny Biggles stuck to his beliefs in small flutes being stupid.
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