The Ultimate PA SYMPHONIC Album List

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 Atavachron wrote:

 ES335 wrote:

The thing about this is that this problem could have been pretty easily foreseen. Maybe next time you should float the idea and get some fedback rather than asking for lists right off the bat. Despite the subtle pressure from a site rep to stick to your/the site's guns, those who are frustrated by the rules have a legitimate complaint: what good is a list of great symphonic albums if you can't submit great symphonic albums to the list? The solution is of course obvious: don't change the rules, change the name of the list!

Call this: 

THE ULTIMATE  LIST OF ALBUMS BY BANDS THAT PROGARCHIVES.COM CLASSIFIES AS SYMPHONIC, NEO-SYMPHONIC OR ITALIAN SYMPHONIC PROG

That way no one can complain because the list will be what it says it is. 

float an idea?   it was simply an invitation for members to list their favorite albums from PA Symph bands, not whether we should offer people health insurance

No. It was an invitation to list their favorite albums with lots of rules. The rules have generated perhaps needless controversy. In the future it might be possible to prevent the controversy. Hence my suggestion. 

I'm not suggesting that controversy is inherently bad by any means. Frequently it leads to the most interesting discussions. However, not being able to submit ITCOTKC to a list of great symphonic prog albums but being able to submit 80's Genesis isn't interesting, just intllectually frustrating. Overall this site is great, but a frequent complaint is there is too much emphasis on mindless polls and lists. Wouldn't it be more in the spirit of the site to allow some leeway for people to think? 

you seem to have an interest in protecting or at least defending PA's classification system. I have no problem with the overall system used on this site. From a usability standpoint, it makes more sense when organizing the information to operate on a general assumption that artists tend to work within a genre. 

That general assumption doesn't seem to make sense for this undertaking, unless moreitthanyou is using a program to tally the results that won't be able to distinguish if a crank is submitting albums that clearly bear no resemblance to the symphonic style. Assuming no cranks, we're probably just talking about a handful of albums that have elements of symphonic combined with elements of eclectic or heavy prog. It seems to me, and others, that the list would be more accurate and interesting, without placing an undue burden on the project's creator, if people were able to exercise reasonable judgement. 