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At 1/13/09 08:18 PM, Pandora-Tranquil wrote:

If the artist cannot vote 5 on themselves, this might help promote realistic voting further.

qft.

I think what would really help the most is an easy way to listen to random new songs.

The whole "0-vote = God's Fury" is an awesome idea.

Another one could be that your voting powah is determined by the number of reviews you have made. Because Im pretty sure that people who review shitloads dont 0-bomb much, and are more trustworth with the power of the mighty 0-bomb.

With great power, comes great res~SHUT UP! >:C

Also, if some douche wants to review heaps to get his votin' power higher, he couldnt go around leaving 0-reviews, or he will get owned. Therefore, only LEGIT peples will have a higher votin' power.

Oh, and also it would be harder for overwhored artists (*Cough* Px9 *cough*) to get on top 5 all the time because people who review alot know the difference between talent and whored-semi-talent :D

At 1/9/09 06:42 PM, Pandora-Tranquil wrote: I believe that a combination of the "Blams", "Saves", and Recent Material Flags (Great Score!, Under Judgement, etc.) lead to less "Zero Voting," more critical reviewing, and a more fair community in general. With the flags in place, artists generally take a look at items under "Great Score!" or "Verge of Death", this means that if an artist has been blatantly promoting their material on other websites, or having friends all vote 5 on the submission, it will be noticed, and if these grades were not parallel to the quality of the material submitted, a concordant grade will be made by other artists who notice this fact, leaving the Artist with a more realistic grade. The opposite situation is also true, if a user is unfairly voted zero upon, and is "Saved", the users who "Save" the material are accredited with this, and the Artist who submitted the material still has a chance to be noticed by the community.

If the same system of blams and saves from the flash portal were added to the audio portal, then a more fair community could certainly be possible. With zero bombers shitting on everything that's good or what not, then those songs would get highlighted as being on the verge of death, just as you mentioned. So a good song that got zero bombed would get more attention and could be rated higher. But what I would really like about taking this from the FP is that songs that are complete and utter shit would get completely removed from the site. Example, at the time of this writing (and a few hours before) there is a "new song" by ParagonX9... Only it's 30 seconds of complete and utter shit noise that some troll uploaded to pass off as something by PX9. What the blam system would do for the AP is cleanse it of all this garbage that's borderline defamation.

In short, I agree with your ideas.