The topic is "Torrents as Releases", but I don't know if that was the direction I would have taken this. Sure, there is a torrent for the top 100 Billboard songs for 195x, but isn't that just a side effect of the actual Billboard list being so popular? What is important is that the Billboard lists would exist without torrents and there is a possibility that someone would want to tag against this information. I think throwing in "torrents" unfairly risks the chance of the Billboard lists being approved.
I do think that discussing torrents is a good idea, and will likely become a hot topic, but perhaps we should discuss the Billboard lists separately? On 8/1/06, Bogdan Butnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/1/06, Matt Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 2:28 pm, you wrote: > > I feel that the difference between the ones above and the Billboard > > ones are the source... Billboard is recognizable as an industry > > standard/measure on a weekly/monthly/yearly basis... who decides > > what's the Top 150 or Top 200 in the ones you list above? I think > > popular also has to be weighed against source as well. > > Reputability could be a separate requirement, but the popularity of a torrent > has nothing to do with the source. Popularity could only be based on how many > seeders and leechers there are for a particular torrent. Note that popularity _of the torrent_ was not the originally-proposed criterion. Instead the popularity _of the compilation_ was cited. (Although, a torrent compilation that has tens of thousands of downloads might be considered "useful for our users".) The fact that it's hard to decide on such criteria is a different problem. The current proposal specifically asks for a discussion on each case, which has the good side-effect that limits the number such additions. ******************** On a slightly-unrelated subject: how about we actually add user-defined "top ## of __" entries on the database, where users actually vote on what's there? -- Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O.
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