i tried my best to influence change by suggesting positive improvements, very disappointed with the inadequate nominations process. No change, no improvements. It doesn't cater for the needs of multi-genre music listeners.
― djmartian, Saturday, 12 December 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
I'm sorry you feel that way, but I don't have enough free time to keep up with as many nominations that would come in if the process had virtually no limits. I'd have to quit my job or not sleep or both. And as someone else mentioned, at what point does the nominations and voting process cross a line from things you really love and would like to see place into "things I heard and I thought were decent"? If you've got 30 nominations to split between tracks and albums, it's all going to be what you consider top shelf music.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 12 December 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
I got a list of about 40 noms right now (only albums, no tracks, and that doesn't even include metal as they're probably wasted noms). I understand the amount of work though, but I definitely would have liked a bit more room. I'm gonna wait for others to nominate the most popular stuff so I can cut my list down to 30.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Saturday, 12 December 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
There's usually an extra few at the death.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 December 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
Right. The last 48 hours or so, we dish out an additional 10 nominations to everybody in crunch time to make sure nothing was missed, forgotten or overlooked.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 12 December 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I'll probably be fine in the end but I wonder what's the reasoning for not allowing the extra 10 right away? Seems to be less stressful and to give a chance to these 10 albums or tracks to be noticed before voting.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Sunday, 13 December 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
I've found that in the rush to get your favorites nominated early in the process, you always forget something key and then hope someone else likes it as much as you did. Alternately, you may find something between now and January 2nd that you want to nominate and, whoops, all your nominations are gone! The 11th hour bonus is a safety net for several reasons.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 13 December 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
winnowing your favourites down is kind of the point above tallying, like, your 46th favourite track of the year just for the sake of it
― lex pretend, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 3:53 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^^^
― Shkreli, Martin & Wu (some dude), Sunday, 13 December 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link