Shameless Plug
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Category: Other music related lounges
Forum Name: Get The Word Out
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Topic: Shameless Plug
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Subject: Shameless Plug
Date Posted: October 26 2008 at 16:34
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The show has been cancelled. Thanks for everyone who participated ... if you liked it you can continue to use it at Progfreak.com. I've overstayed my welcome for far too long ... I've become an intolerable burden for this website, so I'll simply go and won't look back. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 26 2008 at 17:20
I changed the implementation a little bit ... you'll need five albums to make it to the page. The albums have to be from 2008 and the rating has to be at least 6 (on a scale from 0 to 10). This ensures that for each user exactly five albums are displayed, and only those with reasonably good ratings are shown.
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 03:32
| I can only think of 4. I guess I'm disqualified. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 03:35
^ EDIT: I must have been reading your mind ... but maybe the top list which I added to the left side inspires you! I changed the implementation again ... you'll only need three albums to make it to the page. I also added the general top albums list to the page (using votes from all the users) on the left side, and reduced the level of detail in the per user lists. BTW: You can use the charts page to cast your votes: http://progfreak.com/home/charts.xhtml?chart.year=2008 - http://progfreak.com/home/charts.xhtml?chart.year=2008 But I'll try to add the editor buttons to the other pages too, for your convenience. Any feedback is greatly appreciated ... even if you don't want to participate, I'd still be interested in why.  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 04:32
Who would use such a terrible website? ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 05:08
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^ why, only true freaks of course!
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 05:35
 Mike tried to create ratings on mercury rev's new albums but I must be very dense cos for the life of me I could not find the ' Rate' tag.....------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 05:38
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^ http://progfreak.com/Mercury-Rev,_dbe,artists,_auto_9872786.xhtml?path=discography - http://progfreak.com/Mercury-Rev,_dbe,artists,_auto_9872786.xhtml?path=discography On the discography page the edit buttons should be in the list (rightmost column), and on each album page there should be a button in the "Info" box, right beneath the album rating. I'll try to highlight the buttons better ... |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 06:28
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I just straightened out a few bugs related to the ratings display on that page.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 09:50
We have a new entry ... welcome atticthought: |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 12:22
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Now you can select more years ... or browse the general top lists without any restriction. Next up: filters which will enable you to narrow down by genre and/or prog status.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 19:21
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Just about to go to bed ... but I've added three more filters: You can now narrow down per main genre and album type, and you can select year intervals in addition to single years.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 04:34
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Another improvement: You can now rate albums directly on that page, in the album chart on the left. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 09:06
| Yet another improvement: You can now specify how many albums to show per user, and how many albums are required per user. For example, you could choose to display the top 5 albums per user, and require that any user included in the list must have rated at least 10 albums. Or you could choose to display the top 10 albums per user and don't make any requirement at all. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 15:23
Wow ... I knew that people don't like my website, but that they have to rub it in my face ... I must say that I feel like my heart is being ripped out and flushed down the toilet. Have you ever spent weeks in an selfless effort to provide something useful to people, and then they simply walk by without taking any notice? BTW: Thanks to anyone who participates ... I really appreciate it. But what really puzzles me is that I'm getting the distinct feeling that most users here are simply ignoring my efforts no matter what. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 03:26
I told you already, your website is terrible In other news, I added 30 more entries to an artist's discography just before
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 03:33
Cheers Mike  ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 03:41
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^ thanks Chris ... @HughesJB4: Of course I realized that you weren't entirely serious. Here's something I don't understand: stonebeard's post was created yesterday, attracted about 100 views and 10 posts, 6 of which were people posting their top 10. My post was created much earlier, attracted about 170 views, but only three people posted their top albums (on my website). @all you out there who hate my website: show yourselves! Please at least give me a chance to fix the things that you don't like ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 23:01
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 23:18
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Mike,
this was a BAD year for prog.
I'll go with Watershed easily. ------------- |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 11:09
^ thanks for voting! Here's your chart: Did you check out Zero Hour - Dark Deceiver? |
Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 11:37
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Mike your web page is too complicated -------------  |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 11:47
^ on the chart page you simply need to find the edit button in the album chart on the left side ( ) for the album you want to rate. You click it, and in the rating editor which opens you select a rating from the dropdown labelled "Main Rating".Is that really too difficult? I know that some of the advanced features of PF are a bit complicated, but assigning a rating should not be that much of a problem anymore. Let me know if you still have any problems with the website! |
Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 11:48
I think Mike that i need a couple of hours to get ready in your website
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 12:06
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^ take all the time you need ... but please let me know if you encounter any problems, I can only fix them if people report them. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 19:55
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Yet another update: Switched to a two column layout instead of the former three columns. Reduced the required number of albums to one and the number of displayed albums to 5 ... looks quite nice now! http://progfreak.com/home/users.xhtml?path=top_lists - http://progfreak.com/home/users.xhtml?path=top_lists |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:23
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It makes me sad to see Disturbed there. :(
I haven't even heard almost all of those. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:30
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^ that's because we're in the "General Music" section. Try this link: http://progfreak.com/home/users.xhtml?path=top_lists&ps=prog - http://progfreak.com/home/users.xhtml?path=top_lists&ps=prog ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:50
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I realized people didn't think it was prog, I was sad that they thought it was good. We are supposed to be elitists for Frith's sake! ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 20:54
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I haven't listened to it yet ... but it received good reviews in many magazines I read. I'm certainly not an elitist, and I'm glad for that ... it means that have a much wider range of styles to choose from.
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: October 31 2008 at 00:30
Yes I have-
I like technical music, but it's pretty, ummm technical.
They can sure play- but it's just not my cup of tea. ------------- |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 04 2008 at 06:23
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Quick update: I tweaked the display a lot, the page should now be a bit easier to read: http://progfreak.com/home/users.xhtml?path=top_lists - http://progfreak.com/home/users.xhtml?path=top_lists The main genre label now contains up to two tags (for example "Magnificent Symphonic Prog Retro Rock!"), which makes the tag lists a bit shorter. I'll work on reducing them even more, with the goal being that no more than 3-4 tags are displayed for each entry. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 04 2008 at 06:40
Mike, its been a particluarly average year for releases so far, in the ones I've heard:
but I still have Andromeda, Seventh Wonder, Venturia, Soul Secret, Appearance Of Nothing & Suspyre to look forward to, so I'm hoping it will pick up...
anyway, here's the voting from the Norwegian jury.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 04 2008 at 07:13
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^ sorry, but this thread is intended for people who enter the data at PF ... I'd be glad if you entered the albums there, all you need to do is to log in and assign a rating to the albums.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 04 2008 at 12:28
what????!!!!....
 are you telling me that despite having been here for well over 3 years, that I'm ineligible to list the 2008 albums I have heard, in a PA thread entitled 'Top Albums of 2008....more votes needed!' because I don't have an account on another website???
well screw you, Mike, you self-important t**ser....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 06 2008 at 07:13
^ well, it can't hurt to read the first post of a thread ...  Anways, Welcome Nightfly:  |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 03:39
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Just implemented two major changes which will make voting much easier: 1. You can now vote directly from the list on the left. Just select a rating from the dropdown - no need to open the rating editor popup for that (of course you can still use it to add further infos and tags). 2. The list on the left now has a "recommendation mode" which you can use to find albums that you haven't rated yet. It simply skips all albums to which you already assigned a rating. Any comments? Aside from calling me a "t**ser", please ... |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 05:17
t**ser |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 06:03
I can think of one or two more comments, Mike, which I would like you to consider carefully...
1) Yes, I did read your first post. I still nevertheless thought that you might be interested in seeing how I had graded the few albums from 2008, which I had heard, so I quickly knocked up an excel spreadsheet for you to comment on, if you wished. I did this to try and be constructive and helpful, and maybe add something of value to the debate. If I had believed beforehand that no-one would have been interested, then I wouldn't have bothered.
2) Even if you found my scant 'data' an irrelevance, you could have at least had the common decency to acknowledge me with a simple 'thanks', or even ignored what had been a polite post.
3) What you have basically said however, is that your opinions are not warranted, if you do not have a PF account. Whilst I personally find this to be rather rude and elitist, for me, it begs a number of other questions. As you will be aware, I have raised this issue in the abuse reporting thread, concerning whether there are/ should be areas of the general forum where as a PA member, I am not allowed to post. The answers I have received have been an unequivical 'no'. This means that you have no authority or mandate to ring-fence any threads or sections of this site for purely PF purposes, or indeed for any other account holders only, thereby marginalising ordinary PA members.
I am sorry that you found my above post to be unwarranted, or an intrusion into a private members club, but its not as if I have ever been denigrating towards your website, either now, or in times past.
I would finally just say to you that I genuinely thought I would get a bit of a flaying from the senior team concerning my outburst, but I only received one PM which was critical of my post, but several more in support of what I said. Please don't start making the use or otherwise of PF a divisive issue on this forum, Mike, but just accept everyone's opinions for what they are, irrespective of which medium they use.
Right, that's all I've got to say on this issue...I won't post in here again. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 06:58
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If this thread is for PF users only then it needs to be moved to Get The Word Out... |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 08:55
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 08:56
Could you please also rename that category to "Keep it to yourself"? It does more justice to the frequentation ... my post will also be off topic there, so I'll rename it to "Shameless Plug". ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: November 07 2008 at 13:09
Please guys... do not fight over a simple cuestion...
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