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Thumbs up/down

Slurgi	Date: January 11, 2004 @ 4:45 PM I say we bring back the visible thumbs-up/thumbs-down. When i am casually browsing a users songs I usually look for their thumbs ratings as to try to get the best song. It also helps me determine whether to even listen to a song (it takes a while to download!) that has an overly bad rating. SI thought they were a good feature :-/
MickeyBreezy	Date: January 11, 2004 @ 4:48 PM i guess i do the same thing. if there is a song that has a lot of thumbs down i wont listen 2 it. y dont u just stream intead of downloading 4 the 1st time u hear a song.
Slurgi	Date: January 12, 2004 @ 2:56 AM My streaming doesnt work that well, so i just download. Streams never worked for me, :-/
Pagan	Date: January 12, 2004 @ 6:25 PM i totally agree
rhyme416	Date: January 13, 2004 @ 8:29 PM I think it's bullshit... cause whinning little no talent f-aggots click thumbs down and don't even listen to your songs trying to take out the competition with fraudulent votes... I like the idea of being forced to enter a comment at the time of voting for it to register...
invocati	Date: January 13, 2004 @ 8:40 PM I like what rhyme416 said ....The idea of being forced to enter a comment at the time of voting for it to register... Of course their identity or user name should show too.
Sweats	Date: January 13, 2004 @ 8:54 PM The only thing about being forced to comment, is that there are some artists that cant take "constructive" criticism, and would click the users name and lgive him a thumbs down out of spite.
rhyme416	Date: January 13, 2004 @ 9:00 PM That's my point Sweats... those are the kats I'm bitchin' about... you go listen to they trakcs, make a comment to them and they'll come to your page click thumbs down on every track just to be a bitch... I'd rather them have to make a comment at the same time, cause at least if their voting negatively other visitors to the musi c pages can see whut they said and the reason they voted thumbs down.
Sweats	Date: January 13, 2004 @ 9:03 PM yea, I know what you mean, well not directly, but I have seen it on other artists pages.
redrasta	Date: January 15, 2004 @ 1:03 AM Date: January 13, 2004 @ 8:54 PM "The only thing about being forced to comment, is that there are some artists that cant take "constructive" criticism, and would click the users name and lgive him a thumbs down out of spite." Hell yeah...but they'd STILL hafta say WHY they were doing it "I give this song a thumbs down coz...THEY DID IT TO MY SONG AND ITS MY MOMS FAVOURITE!!!"
effergy	Date: January 29, 2004 @ 8:53 AM HAHA.. i miss how many thumbs up n down are on songs, i like to see how the votings going, fair enough, some ppl are stupid enough to thumb down the whole top ten cos they not in it, but the overall rating if the songs good will be good, unless u annoy lots of ppl!
teledyn	Date: March 9, 2004 @ 8:33 PM it's more work for the developers, but what I'd like to see is a seperate pop-up window holding the real-player as an embedded thing, and where we can place the voting/comment as only accessible if you've at least started to listen. I've also caught myself voting on one song when I was actually listening to the next one in the list! left to me, I think I'd replace the roman emperor thumbs with something more neutral like simple up/down arrows; give more a sense of voting to place this song in the charts by saying "better than the song above it" or "worse than the song below it" -- the thumbs have, I think, a social stigma that discourages people from using the down-thumb.
pog	Date: March 9, 2004 @ 9:22 PM hmmmmm as I was reading tele's post, I thought... maybe if we have instead of a thumbs up/down, a rating you can give a track out of 10.... make em all start at 5, and with each vote (you can only vote on a track once), lets say someone gives it a 9. add this to the current rating, divide it by 2 to end at 7... the next person votes 10... so add that to the 7 to give 17, divide by 2 to give 8.5... round down (always) to give you a resulting score of 8, and so on. it may make an easier charting system, also
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 9, 2004 @ 9:26 PM
Etheracide	Date: March 9, 2004 @ 9:34 PM Of course it can be difficult enough to get people to vote for your songs without them having to enter an actual comment. It's hard enough to get people to sign up so that they can vote to help you out. Such ingrates!
pog	Date: March 9, 2004 @ 9:34 PM ...you'd either have to scrap all the current rattings or maybe go.. everyone with more than 100 thumbs up can start at 10, 80 thumbs up can start at 9, 60 at 8.... etc.