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mx
05-17-2007, 01:09 AM
So, another thing I have been thinking about:

The concept of digs is cool, and is going to play a larger role in the redesigned profiles. I also like seeing what everyone is listening to under their posts.

The problem is that our tastes are eclectic. Most albums have '0' listeners tagged, even the most popular have only have '13' or so. This is understandable, think of maybe 1,000 consistently active users having one dig every two weeks spread across the site.

But the problem is that it reflects negatively on the sites traffic a bit. I wince whenever I see '0 current listeners' for a new release, etc.

I want to keep the interface there so you can add it as a dig right on the album page. Is there some better way to do this that reflects better on the site?

In related news, I am planning on adding the dig feature here to the forums as well, to appear under posts. Have to make sure I can do this as a vb plugin though

planewreck
05-17-2007, 01:12 AM
Make any new review/sound-off that has a rating of 3.5+ an automatic dig for that person? Or maybe make it an automatic dig whenever someone rates an album 3.5+ and if they don't want it there they can delete it themselves.

Cocaine
05-17-2007, 01:13 AM
I like the idea of integrating it with the forums. I hate the separation between the two, so anything to bring forum users to the review site and vice versa is a great idea automatically.

Make any new review/sound-off that has a rating of 3.5+ an automatic dig for that person? Or maybe make it an automatic dig whenever someone rates an album 3.5+ and if they don't want it there they can delete it themselves.

Maybe like a prompt that comes up if you rate above a 3?

Iai
05-17-2007, 12:30 PM
Is there any way of automatically taking it from our Last.fm profiles? A lot of sites have a field that displays what your last track was on Last.fm, so surely it wouldn't be too hard to write a bot that scanned that for album/artist information. Potentially buggy, mind, though users could alwys delete what appears erroneously.

Neoteric
05-17-2007, 12:32 PM
Speaking of last.fm, why can't we have a bit where we could just write stuff about ourselves (and put our last.fm)?

The Jungler
05-17-2007, 01:45 PM
Maybe like a prompt that comes up if you rate above a 3?Yeah this sounds like a good idea.

Eliminator
05-17-2007, 01:48 PM
Dig feature is stupid.

Oddsen
05-17-2007, 03:21 PM
:( so rude

Cesar21
05-18-2007, 01:05 PM
what Jungler said