As lists have become increasingly popular on the site, it’s become necessary to gently step in and make sure things are going in a constructive direction. As a result, I’ve posted the following set of brief guidelines on the list creation page.
List Guidelines
– Your list should be related to music in some way
– If you’d like to post comments, suggestions, or complaints about the site, use the site forum instead
– If you’d like to post something completely unrelated to music, use the community forums
– If you’d like to post something related to a specific user, use their shoutbox
Lists that violate these guidelines will be deleted — so please don’t try to skirt them. We want to encourage you to make lists, but we also want to make sure that lists remain a valuable and interesting resource for users. Lately, lists have included rants, half-hearted rankings, obscenities, video-game discussion, and everything in between. Additionally, the fact that lists appear on the front page of the site has led to a lot of abuse. Let’s keep the focus on the music — we have an entire set of wonderful forums for every offtopic conversation you can think of.
If these new rules prove to be too stifling for users, I would consider re-implementing user journals. It’s important that we build a strong sense of community and individual user expression– I just want to make sure that it is occurring in the right place. Lists are for music.
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it's got nothing to do with space it's got everything to do with relevance
seriously what
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Willie, we have links to the forum on every genre page.
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sounds like a great idea!
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All good points. I'd be open to either experimenting with comments on band pages, or a new forum for review site users. It seems kind of ridiculous on the surface to duplicate existing forums, but I see your point. The forums can be somewhat hostile -- it's leftover from the mxtabs era.
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nice job doing SOMETHING about the lists though, mx, they really were getting out of hand (not saying I wasn't included here or there haha).
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http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/8369/thingz.jpg
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Sort of agreed, chan. In fact, almost entirely; one long thread of comments about how awesome Thrice are is a pretty redundant function.
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I agree simply because the hilarity of the comments wouldn't be anywhere close. Last.fm is fucking excellent in that regard :P
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a) New threads would appear on the main page
b) If I could get it to work, some posts would appear in the new comments section
c) It would primarily be focused on review site users
d) The link to the forums in the navigation would go to these community forums
The big problem is how to keep trolls out.
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what?
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No, then people will spam away their first 50 comments in order to have freedom of speech....
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The only thing I could think of is one of those invite only things.. and yeah, thats not really good either.
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How do you do it at the moment?
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Maybe a users blog? I don't know how much work that would require, but if users could post entries similar to what is being done on the staff blog I think it would be perfect. It could be integrated into the review site the same way the staff blog is now.
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yeah I know. beyond this internet tough guy routine, I actually like talking with people about things, and usually that's the only way to get them into the conversation. gj pointing out I'm a loser chan.
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Just an opinion.
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a lot of your guys' points are being negated by this one post here
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we are seeing similar developments right now with user Thor!"
I realize my views of the world have turned me bitter as of late, but it's hard to go back to where you were. It can only get better from here.
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work on genres and news mx
love, foxxxy
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Maybe a new forum is the way to go. If there was a review site community forum somehow integrated into the front page, I would use it.
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That's extremely sexy though.
Just make another forum and get it over with lol.
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I think this is an excellent Idea.
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I like this idea. Does it mean this forum would still be on the review site?
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