Super tacky Google search addition to album pages
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Topic: Super tacky Google search addition to album pages
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Subject: Super tacky Google search addition to album pages
Date Posted: November 02 2009 at 23:26
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Maybe I'm really late on this, but I just noticed that between the song and lineup information there are two bold subsections for the Google search for the lyrics and tabs for that album. I have several huge problems with this The placement makes it extremely annoying because I don't care about the lyrics and tabs for Tangerine Dream, if I'm looking at that section of the page I want to know who plays on the damn album. More importantly, aren't lyrics and tabs sites of dubious legality at best? The admins always warn us about posting full lyrics and tabs so we don't get in trouble with The Man, so how does it make sense to then have a link to them displayed more prominently than the album's lineup, much less at all? It also cheapens PA because it makes us look like one of those lyrics sites that is willing to make things almost unreadable as long as it generates a tiny bit more ad revenue.
Also, why is there a plain text ad for Trans-Siberian Orchestra and AC/DC tickets from vividseats.com at the beginning of the prog metal definition? - ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 00:05
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Henry Plainview wrote:Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 00:52
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I've noticed this, but I thought it was semi-helpful, although I usually get lyrics out of the album art if they're supplied. I don't really think its a problem in all honesty, and I've never found it distracting or annoying. ------------- 
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 18:36
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Well I am a formatting Nazi and I do not like contradictions so these things bother me more than perhaps they should.
Nobody else cares? So sad. :(
Also, in the OP I meant to say the ad for vividseats.com at the beginning of the prog metal definition, I'm not sure how that got cut off. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: LiquidEternity
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 18:55
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I don't like them. I like the previous layout for displaying album information.
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: November 05 2009 at 23:03
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Sounds like we should rebel. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 00:46
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 09:12
| I guess I don't visit album pages too much, I only now just discovered this thanks to your thread. And yes, that is dreadful. Those links should be placed elsewhere, or removed. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 10:06
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Agreed. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |