Hey folks,
We’ve made a bunch of changes to the system:
– Tags on band pages now update every 15 minutes instead of instantly.
– ‘Third’ genres should no longer appear unless they have at least 15% of the total votes.
– Non-approved tags will no longer appear on band pages or navigation.
– Mods can now reset tags on a band profile and can and will ban people for inappropriate tags. Don’t be a tagging troll.
– Pie charts now only use the ‘top two’ genres for each band. 8 genres are displayed.
We’re in the process of implementing a loose grouping structure for the genres. For instance, clicking on a ‘major’ genre such as Rock, Metal, or Alternative will not only display content for bands with that specific tag, but also for related subtags. Functionally, the tagging system is unchanged. If a band doesn’t fit a subgenre well, just use one of the more generic tags.
Lastly, two reminders:
– Please keep in mind that the subgenre system quickly becomes unhelpful if there are too many subgenres. We’re taking our time approving new requests until we’re sure that requested tags make sense. There’s no need to request every micro-genre that you’ve seen on the internet.
– If you don’t like how a band is tagged, don’t complain — vote for what you think is most appropriate. Given the new 15% system, bad tags won’t exist eternally on a band page. In a scenario in which a band has been ‘joke tagged’, please report this to the mods in the forums.
I’ll continue to monitor the situation — expect some additional tweaks to the genre system in the coming days/weeks. As always, feedback is appreciated.
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Now that's what I wanted to hear! Things are working out very nicely
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or at least a couple minutes ago now it's 6% techno rip.
anyway i like
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Any word on prog rock and alternative issue?
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Things are great, good job, thanks
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but how's suggesting spectralism considered trolling, this site isn't 4chan as far as I can tell. I shouldn't have been banned for no concrete reason, and by concrete reason I mean (and I'm being completely serious) that these suggestions are meant to improve the site and banning users for suggesting them is discouraging and counterproductive to say the least. i wasn't troll-tagging whichever artists i could get my hands on so please take into consideration that this new system shouldn't be a progenitor of cause amusement or anger but of advancement and professionality.
>requests unban
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music
http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Spectralism/
http://www.last.fm/tag/spectralism
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Really enjoying the new system, I'd give it a 4.5/5
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should apply for second genres too, but with like 30%. bands like camel can be easily tagged as djent
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I think the ban was for saying you'd flood their boards with spectralism and cajun until they accept the avant-garde tag, not for suggesting spectralism ;) Threats are not appreciated
And to be fair, spectralism is a compositional technique, not exactly a genre. (though I agree it'd make a useful tag)
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true, and that's why it would work wonders as a secondary tag for classical composers (adding indeterminacy, microtonality, lowercase and whatnot would be considerably far-fetched). And nothin wrong with a spice-ing drop of sarcastic humor btw
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is that a permanent change?
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Actually needs "skramz" as a genre.
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JOM PLS
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Melodic Death Metal is a world apart from Death Metal, but there are no qualifiers in place to express that.
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It stands for rhythm & blues, so technically it could fall under both. But it's being used for the more contemporary stuff, for the most part
"It would be useful to create a subgenre system, at some point. I know concision is the goal, but there are some very distinct genres that are currently mislabeled: Glitch, Melodic Death Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal, Funeral Doom, and Blackgaze for example. These are all very large distinct genres and to label them as their parent genre doesn't really do them justice"
My comment in the last thread:
I'm all for better integration and such, but a lot of you guys need to be realistic here. For instance; "blackgaze", really? We're not in the trendy blogtag business. If a band or artist you listen to implements both black metal and shoegaze, then surely you would just tag the band/artist as such, right? Like, when you add 1 + 1 and get 2. I don't know, my maths is a little bit rusty these days...
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okay some of you guys have to be yanking my chains
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not at all man. atmospheric black metal is a bigger subgenre (though it is a little bit vague), and even that doesn't deserve a tag
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i think that any tag that wikipedia uses is legit enough for sputnik. progressive thrash for example is too much, when you can just use prog metal and thrash as two tags, but melodic black metal and black metal are not the same and need to be differentiated
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Melodeath is a must though.
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still wanting melodeath heavy metal and hard rock
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both black metal. don't need to differentiate more than that
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On it.
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should apply for second genres too, but with like 30%.
seconded
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Might be better to measure it as a ratio to genre 1 rather than as an overall percentage. Otherwise all the random genres with single votes could affect it.
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Slightly Blacker Metal
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However, some genres are missing that I would NOT consider micro-genres AT ALL. Such as noise. Why noise rock but not noise? Noise rock can fall under rock or alternative but where can noise fall under? (Sometimes industrial, but not always.) People'd consider this a micro-genre because of how underground it is, but there is actually a LOT of noise music out there. I've suggested free improvisation too, and no, this doesn't apply to less than 30 artists; there is a lot of free improvisation being done out there. The thing is that it's not really popular on Sputnik... People go on websites that cover more experimental music to look for this stuff, but that doesn't mean we should exclude these genres. Because unlike spectralism which could easily be tagged with (modern) classical, I don't know what to tag free improv or noise except "experimental" and that's too vague and barely means anything.
Honestly I see it as insulting for genres like noise, free improvisation and musique concrete to be considered "micro-genres" -- this music may be off the radar to a lot of people but there is definitely a lot of this music, and people that listen to this music can attest that "experimental" is insufficient and that these genres aren't similar to each other to be lumping them all under experimental. They have their own sound enough to be called a genre. With electroacoustic/musique concrete I'm not sure whether to tag as experimental, classical or electronic when it's sort of loosely all of those, but really neither. And maybe if Sputnik were open to mentioning these genres and covering them, more people that like this type of music would consider joining the Sputnik community and contributing...
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Modern classical is a bit troublesome as a catch-all term, but in Sputnik's case, it makes more sense than having a whole bunch of other terms instead.
If Sputnik acknowledged the existence of these types of music that have been around as long or longer than rock, then perhaps the general constitution of the site will improve.
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i mean fractured
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sweet. was considering that myself as well as MPB but I didn't know if there was really much of an audience for it.
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Me and my homies, so drop that!
We rollin on twenties, with the top back!
So much money, you can't stop that!
happy belated canada day!
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Was it showing up somewhere that it isn't now?
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For instance, breaks doesn't show up anymore
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The problem is blackgaze isn't really black metal. Do you know what are the #2 & #3 albums on the black metal chart at the moment? Entropia & deafheaven. These are great albums, but they definitely shouldn't be considered as the "black metal albums of the year". It's just confusing.
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"A style emerging around the turn of the 21st century that became increasingly popular during the latter part of the aughts. These artists incorporate non-metal influences such as Shoegaze and Post-Rock into the aesthetic of atmospheric and depressive Black Metal."
Seems good enough.
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Good, we were in need for that one!
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My guess is that it will get re-rolled out once he's finalized the decision tree. Sorry about that, but I don't know what happened yet."
I'm not sure what happened either. It's not like I went around and tagged everyone wrong either, so I was a bit confused to see every single one of my tags gone.
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Does Run The Jewels really deserve to be the top Post-Metal AOTY so far?
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good.
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sweet
also explains why i lost the jazz slice of my chart
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because we don't already have 15+ metal genres on this. yet there's only two (hip-hop/grime) hip-hop tags, no new wave (which is pretty much almost a decade of popular music), one classical tag, not even screamo, avant garde, neofolk, power electgronics or krautrock.
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I have a question:
What's the point of having Metal and HM ? What purpose HM will serve as an available tag ?
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free jazz
screamo
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Band is Ke$sha. Thoughts?
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Lil B, Baths, Primal Scream, Jenny Hval, Soap and Skin, David Bowie, The Flaming Lips, Thundercat, How to Destroy Angels, etc
...artists who maybe be "adventurous" at best (lol at Lil B & How to Destroy Angels), but it's a tag that should only be attributed to artists whose sound doesn't fit under any of the other tags (every single artist mentioned above can be tagged with something else other than experimental that suits their sound better [ie: Lil B - Hip-Hop / Primal Scream - Psychedelic). Having an "Art Pop" tag would solve alot of this (that could cover Jenny Hval, Soap and Skin, David Bowie, The Flaming Lips, and countless others). Artists like a Keith Rowe, a Jakob Ullmann, or a Graham Lambkin have an extremely tough sound to pinpoint that doesn't fit under any of the other available tags, so experimental is a tag that's relevant to these artists. But to see experimental artists like that surrounded by artists like The Flaming Lips or Jenny Hval, it brings such a broad meaning to the term "experimental" that it makes the page completely irrelevant. We need some standards with the experimental tag, because really "experimental" isn't a genre at all - it's an idea. And it's an idea that needs definition.
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But I don't necessarily think that experimental isn't a genre. I would think that velvet underground is experimental rocks because they did things in rock that no one did before, and heavily influenced numerous genres afterward.
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And that Noise got removed.
And Screa...
oh my.
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oh, well I assumed the genres we proposed 2 weeks ago still standed because that's when I did all of that. if you need us to go around propose the genres again, someone should've said so earlier because I'm on it now!
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I'm guess that someone already asked for it, then.
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i just figured somebody already had. Will do now
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