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Why did they get rid of the top fifty band list? |
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AFlowerKingCrimson 
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 Topic: Why did they get rid of the top fifty band list?Posted: 11 hours 13 minutes ago at 17:25 |
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On this website on the front page there used to be a listing just above the subgenre list (I think) that had the top 50 most searched prog bands on this site. It seems to have disappeared maybe back in June I'm guessing. I first noticed it a couple of months ago or so but I think it disappeared before then. When did they move it and also why?
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Logan
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Posted: 10 hours 50 minutes ago at 17:48 |
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I don't know why M@x did away with it. It might have been putting too much strain on the server, especially with all the bots (and scripts) involved, and that can lead to some manipulation to get bands into it. I don't recall seeing it for over a year, but I don't visit there that frequently. Here's a snapshot of it from 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230703023856/http://progarchives.com/
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moshkito
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Posted: 10 hours 3 minutes ago at 18:35 |
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Hi, In all honesty, I much prefer that it did not list "top" anything ... as it tends to soften the attention on the bands listed further down the listing. I think that the idea, might have been a good one, to make sure that all bands got better attention than the ones listed as "top" ... I'm quite alright with the preferences, but a numerical listing with your "favorite" at the top, again, hurts the rest of the list ... I started listening to one list, and only got to about 10, before I quit ... too many things that were ... copies, let's say ... with nearly the same "sound", and "ideas" for what "prog-rock" is. Not to mention of some old rehashes from a few known bands. I would like to see some more folks with different and totally eccentric/eclectic listings ... so that some of us folks, have a different choice of things to listen to.
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Posted: 8 hours 53 minutes ago at 19:45 |
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I think it had something to do with current bands purposefully clicking on their page so they could be in the top fifty. Some of the top fifty bands were looking pretty suspicious as to how they got there.
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Maybe the top of the list is really better than the tail end? In any case, in a space where there are thousands of "competitors", ending up in the top 50 should not be perceived as hurtful by any reasonable artist.
Talk about double standards. First you complain that people only focus on the top entries in the list and then you do the same?
Dude, it's your choice! If you do not make it, you only have yourself to blame. Seriously, you can't scroll down the list?
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Posted: 2 hours 53 minutes ago at 01:45 |
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It's got to take some dedication by an artist to want to spend time manipulating our system, in order that the 12 forum members who visit, might see their band's name hidden amongst the other 49 more familiar ones and by chance decide to click on them out of mild curiosity?? If they are prepared to put in the effort for so little pecuniary reward in return, we should be giving them a medal!
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Posted: 2 hours 35 minutes ago at 02:03 |
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Manipulation or not, i thought it was a good thing that new bands or newly added bands ended up in that list, it was a chance for them to be discovered.
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