Simon Reinhardt wrote: > Fabian A. Scherschel wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Simon Reinhardt >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> That is the idea of MusicBrainz and you are welcome to bring in your >> knowledge and correct the entries close to your heart. Eventually >> this can then reflect in the libre.fm <http://libre.fm> data. >> MusicBrainz is just as stupid/intelligent as its users. ;-) >> >> Ya, great. The downfall of this system is that there are apparently more >> stupid people than intelligent ones. Otherwise the changes I made there >> wouldn't get reversed all the time... > > The solution to this is obviously to talk to the people and try to find out > why they don't agree with you. There are mailing lists if you need a broader > audience than the few editors watching your artists. But what makes you think > that a wiki-like system on libre.fm wouldn't have the same disagreement > problems? At least MusicBrainz has a review system in place already. I don't > see how some decisions about artists on MusicBrainz that you don't agree with > justify creating a new system elsewhere. I mean, you can always take the > MusicBrainz code and run your own fork, integrated with your own libre.fm > deployment. But if you want to participate in a larger community then you > have to live with the fact that some people don't agree with you. I agree.
Also, in my experience, each downvote in MusicBrainz is usually accompanied by a note explaining why the edit is perceived to be lacking. Usually (but not always) there actually is a problem with my edit if this happens. This is hardly the place for a broader discussion of the intelligence level of the MusicBrainz community, but FWIW in my experience it's filled with people who are as anal or even more so, about having correct tags as I am. Also there are very specific rules about what to accept and what to reject. In general your edits should be accompanied by some sort of proof if they are anything more than trivial. -- - eric casteleijn http://thisfred.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
