Interactive poll team

^ That makes perfect sense to me, George! Also, by allowing people to post only one video at a time, you keep them going. Your format is ideal for drawing attention to the IA-polls. The playlist makes the difference. You can share your music with many unlike most other threads.

Edited by Mila-13 - June 28 2023 at 14:53

suitkees wrote: ^ It doesn't suck at all, at least not to me - I like it! But this is indeed more in the interactive playlist-logic. As such, this is OK of course, but what we see with the two first IA-playlist installments is that there is hardly any exchange about the music: most participants plug their choice (at best with some contextual information), but there is hardly any commenting on them, apart from some - but very few - of the usual suspects. And I guess that listening and commenting on 25 suggestions is maybe a bit too much asked for (especially if everybody's going to put up 10-minute pieces...) to many of the participants. This is maybe another important difference between IA-playlists and IA-polls: the quantity. More is less, maybe... and sometimes less is more! Anyway, I like this poll, and I'll come up with some suggestions.

You do a wonderful job at commenting on the choices, but that is something that I believe that I truly suck at. I've tried, but was never satisfied with the results and didn't feel like it was appreciated by most (this is coming from someone with social anxiety). I love to read the comments, and for there to be some discussion. I'll try to be, as time permits, an attentive host. At least with one track per post it makes it easier to listen to and comment on the choices as we go along. I like to see a little more chat in these IA polls (and not just of the one-on-on kind but like group chat). A problem I have thought with these polls over the past many moons is that they lack momentum, both in suggestions and commenting on suggestions, but also conversationally it has these like awkward to me long silences.

The interaction of the participants is important to me in these polls, meaning interaction in discussion and commenting on each others choices, and that can be lacking. Not everyone has the time or is interested in that, however. What I have hoped for is some kind of communal experience that feels similar to when my friends would listen to music together as a teenager -- it's that nostalgic desire that may be what most drives me to interact at this forum.

Edited by Logan - June 27 2023 at 16:09

If my poll sucks, it sucks. It's up anyway. Of course if someone wants to do another poll, I have no issue with having more than one up at the same time. Mine is more aligned with George's approach than Lorenzo's anyway and so need not be thought of as part of the Interactive Poll proper series. As for the Prog and non-Prog music divide, so much of what I like especially in modern music overlaps so I don't tend to think in "Prog" terms that much. Most of what I like even in PA is not what a purist likely would think of as Prog (and I don't tend to think of it as Prog). Prog, to be frank, is a word that leaves quite a bad taste in my mouth anyway -- I keep a lot of soap by my laptop when using this site. ;)

Edited by Logan - June 27 2023 at 15:08

^^ I basically agree with you, Kees. I know I'm the black sheep of the family here, But I think that inputs from outside the prog universe can bring a breath of fresh air, too. Also I would appreciate to have more women in our IA-polls. George's IA-playlist polls attracted more women than we usually have. That also brought more musical diversity imo. which I appreciate very much.

Edited by Mila-13 - June 27 2023 at 14:44

I think the organiser is the boss. If you have something, go for it!

^ Ready for Launch?

Contemporary is fine with me. Would that be music of any genre? Both prog and non-prog? I think, by being a prog site, interest varies most if prog is or isn't included. Also, from the thread on how people listen to music, it seems like a majority a full albums only. It depends for me and has assumed it would be similat for most.

I like contemporary so I can get other people's suggestions as it is hard to keep up.

^ I was wondering that too; some kind of variation on both. More like George's I think. I was thinking that people can post up to two videos per post, people can vote for up to five choices (but not your own), they don't need to listen through the playlist to vote or vote to participate but it is encouraged.

We have people here of a few generations, but a lot of the 50 plus ones. I was about 30 when I started using this site, and feel like I lost my youth to progarchives. I feel like David Bowie's rapidly aging character in The Hunger, "I'm a young man. Do you understand? I'm a young man!"

I'll do it under an "Interactive Play" title.

Edited by Logan - June 27 2023 at 13:27

I’d be willing to do one focused on contemporary favourites that we got into during, say, the past six months.