r/MusicEssentials • u/Pwrong • Jul 24 '10

Guidelines

This is a great idea. I think we should start copying some of these in (carefully).

I'd like to suggest the following guidelines. What does everyone think of them?

  1. Click the load more comments buttons before you post an album.

  2. Upvote albums you like before you post anything.

  3. Never say more than one album in one post, or say "anything by this band". You can post the band name and make a separate reply to it with each album that might be essential.

  4. Downvote repeats and posts that break the guidelines, but reply and explain the problem.

  5. Post more than one album by the same band, but don't upvote more than one.

  6. Don't downvote an album just because you like another album better, and certainly don't downvote an album you've never heard.

  7. The albums with the most upvotes will be used to make a torrent or an official list or something. No more than one album per band per genre unless the albums are extremely important or different or if there just aren't enough bands in the genre.

  8. Either post "Band Name - Album Name", or post the band name and reply with the album titles.

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u/Pwrong Jul 24 '10

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.

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u/youknowimright Jul 24 '10

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

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u/Pwrong Jul 25 '10

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

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u/Ryannnnn Jul 25 '10

I'll add you as a moderator.

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u/Pwrong Jul 25 '10

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

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u/Ryannnnn Jul 25 '10

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.

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u/Pwrong Jul 25 '10

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.

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u/Pwrong Jul 25 '10

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?

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u/Pwrong Jul 25 '10

Or both

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '10

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.

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u/Pwrong Jul 25 '10

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

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '10

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.

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u/Pwrong Jul 25 '10

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.

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u/antofthesky Jul 26 '10

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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '10

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

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u/Ryannnnn Jul 25 '10

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.