At 5/24/18 10:39 PM, IoTheEternal wrote:
If you form incentive around people writing reviews, you will have this part of the site EXPLODE, and people will be very very happy. Perhaps implement a minimum text limit so people can't just write a couple words - like in the forums.
Yeah. I get tired of seeing 20 characters or less. Although occasionally I'm stumped for much beyond a sentence or two with a song that is either so good or so terrible that I can't offer much critique. I would agree with this stipulation if your next idea were implemented.
Also what the reviews USED to have was pretty nice - a title, 4 criteria for clarity etc and then the review.
I loved this but apparently some people had ADD and thought it was too confusing.
There was a site called mixposure, where, while it still exists, its system has drastically changed. However it had incentives for reviewing. One I believed was that you were not allowed to submit NEW music until you reviewed existing peoples music, and it had to be good. Those reviews had to pass quality approval before you got your stats.
I tried this site out and it wasn't half-bad. I may have actually stayed had I been more into music back in '09 or so.
Imagine if you did that on here. Sure you might kill the portal if people decide it's not worth it - but you would also cut out 99% of the crap submitted to the portal. Imagine if you cannot even POST music until you say review 5 peoples songs that already exist on the portal.
Not only would this allow for people to get exposed to peoples music, but it would give them a sense of what the portal is all about, and possibly cut off the flow of stolen audio submissions for geometry dash that this site appears to be plagued with.
Kill GD theft by requiring people to write a set number of reviews, to be approved by mods, before they can upload, while stimulating the one thing everyone here craves, feedback? That doesn't sound half bad. For active members of the community, 5 reviews per submission wouldn't even be a big issue, but for drop and dash GD thieves, getting reviews approved would take real effort, not to mention force them to interact with the community in a positive manner.
Now the question is what other incentives could you be given for reviewing lots of people with GOOD advice? And not super condescending novels of advice, but good overall reviews? What about added voting WEIGHT to songs?
I'm more on the side of EXP for reviews, since EXP counts toward weight, and review score/vote score are being merged, although I wouldn't be opposed to this idea. It just seems a little hard to manage without a hardcap on additional vote-weight percentage. Who knows, maybe add badges or something to reviews, for simplicity's sake. I always miss seeing that extra percentage next to my vote power when I vote in the AP, as opposed to the game/movie portal.
Where if they have a good review, and people mark it as helpful, each of those helpfuls counts as a point towards review weight? Or unhelpfuls count against, or , since this would very much likely be abused, have a review mod award those points?
That sounds like a lot of hard work for review mods, but is not in itself a bad idea. Perhaps a large percentage of helpful marks over certain milestones in review count would count toward bonus percentage, and similarly, a lot of unhelpfuls would decrease percentage? Though then people could just ask to have their reviews deleted.
I've been in the audio portal for 15 years. I have seen all the changes, what has worked and what has not. What I suggest is you do NOT cater to the instant gratification culture that has swept this generation, and instead make people WORK for things.
Work is good. Within reason, it makes things feel worth having -- and thus worth sticking around for.
One of those things is an overall top chart, or a weekly top 5 like used to happen.
I missed this but I feel like this is how people look at the top categories for the week/month/etc. It does feel quaint by comparison though.
When people have something to strive for that they believe they can get on score, or merit, or weight of reviews (and not just randomly determined), they are going to be competitive about it and this helps raise quality and help clean out the portal - as a lot of weaker songs get swept away under the desire of those who wish to get ahead, and have the followings to do it. You should have to EARN that following.
Are you suggesting a top 5 by score or by merit? The FP typically serves the latter purpose and is hand picked between once and twice a week, but perhaps that could be better emphasized. Some people confuse it with the features at the bottom of a few pages, which are chosen I believe by algorithm.
Also hate that those are usually GD related. Damn GD kiddos.
Also maybe this exists, but I currently don't see how many people have favourited one of my songs - shouldn't that be a stat?
Those are on the individual song pages, if they've been faved, last I checked. I don't think there's a stat across the board for the number of faves your acc has received, just follows, which were previously acc faves.