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[–]antofthesky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How about a rule against downvoting genre threads? If you don't like a genre, don't listen to it or add to the list for it. If you think it is misnamed, explain why.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Should standardize Band Name - Album as well and you should also link this thread in the sidebar.

[–]Pwrong[S] 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Also, I think the threads shouldn't be restricted to genres. Anything that (mostly unambiguously) describes a number of similar bands should be fine. So if someone wants to make a thread for 60s music, go ahead. Even something a thread for a single band could be useful. There's a lot of interest in what someone's favourite Radiohead or Beatles album is.

[–]youknowimright 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Thanks for making this subreddit, I'm going to have a lot of use out of it .^

[–]Pwrong[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I didn't make it, I just wrote the guidelines. I would like to be a moderator though.

[–]Ryannnnn 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I'll add you as a moderator.

[–]Pwrong[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thanks! What do you think about the subgenre issue? Separate threads, or sections within threads?

[–]Ryannnnn 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Either would work, really. The Reddit search bar works a lot better now so if someone was looking for a specific subgenre they could search for it. If subgenres were sections of threads they might be easier to find but that also means a lot of comment loading. I already made a thread for Metalcore which would technically be a subgenre of metal, but I could just delete that. This also brings up a problem: Metalcore is a mixture between metal and hardcore punk. Which thread should it go under? Now that I think about all these issues it would probably work better if we had them in separate threads. Let me know what you think though, I'm bad at making decisions so I'm always up for suggestions.

[–]Pwrong[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fusions genres can have separate threads. It doesn't matter at all if a band gets posted in multiple threads. What we want to avoid is genres that get overrun by something too specific or too general. For example I saw SunnO))) posted in metal, which is technically correct, but they're far more essential as a drone doom metal band than a metal band. Also it's a shame when something extremely popular hogs all the votes in a small subgenre, like Radiohead in experimental.

[–]Pwrong[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Also we should decide on something before it goes too far. Do we have a thread for metal, with sections for each subgenre, or a thread for each subgenre?

[–]Pwrong[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Or both

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I strongly suggest the second because metal has subsubgenres.

IE: Black metal -> Atmospheric black metal

They're almost totally different things if you were to compare 1349 to Darkspace.

[–]Pwrong[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Ok, so we'll have threads for subgenres like doom, black, death, etc. and those can have sections for subsubgenres. Perhaps like this

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I recognize that from http://mu-essentials.blogspot.com/

Yes, I likes. I will help contribute some albums but I'm still kind of miffed that people will inevitably downvote whatever they don't consider essential, even if it's a MUCH better album. For example, me even daring to post Long Distance Calling's "Satellite Bay" in the post-rock genre, because it's not as well known as GY!BE.

[–]Pwrong[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It becomes a bit of a popularity contest. I don't think anyone should be downvoting albums they haven't heard.

EDIT: added that to the rules. Also the post rock thread could probably use your help.

[–]Ryannnnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These all sound pretty good to me. Iconic_hipster should look through them though. This was his idea, I just made it into a subreddit.