Some people tend to post what genre their post is, some don’t. Personally, I like seeing the tags there so we know what we’re about to listen to, or at least get an idea of it.
Probably wouldn’t be a hard rule, but maybe something added to the sidebar like “Please add a genre description. if you remember to.”
Whatcha all think?
EDIT: For clarity, all I mean is formatting post titles like “Weedeater - Wizard Fight [sludge/punk]”
The upshot is we get an idea of what we’ll be listening to before clicking it. The downside is, we’ll get “umm sorry sweetie this is clearly neoclassical death metal, not melodic death metal” slapfights in the comments.
From what I’ve seen around here, the community is pretty good about avoiding that sort of stuff, but you do make a good point. Thank you for the input!
We can add a supplemental rule that bans being a pedantic weenie in the comments
Sounds like a good instance-wide policy
To me, genres are kind of a lie. Some music falls in to a clear genre, a lot doesn’t. That’s why you see some shops where almost everything is under ‘Rock & Pop’
You can pretty much always get at least a little descriptive though (all music is a part of some tradition), and even if you personally wouldn’t know what to call it you can always refer to the artist themselves on bandcamp (the tags at the bottom of the album page) or sites like rate your music where people will have tagged everything.
Personally I’m with OP in that I’m for the tags. Every good music forum I’ve ever used has them as they make searching easier as well as just giving you an idea if you’d want to click on a particular topic or not.
Genres are big circles on a giant never-ending Venn diagram of types of [thing in question]. Multiple genre labels will often apply to a single piece of music, and you can trace the influences that led to a certain genre’s emergence.
Don’t think of it as categories in the music store. Think of it as a taxonomy that primarily exists to help you find stuff that’s similar to what you already like.
Thanks for your input!
im not sure how “tags” work in lemmy, but what about letting users add/remove or upvote/downvote genre tags per post? It’d be cool to later sort posts by “Top Rock” or “Top Indie Rock” (different specificies) later.
I kind of just meant like, adding soething like [rock] or [sludge/progessive] to the post title. I’ll edit the OP for clarity.
mild support for having it as a suggestion on the side rules
I feel like it’s the sort of thing that should be very strongly encouraged but not endorsed. Standardizing a format (e.g. [genre] artist - “track/album title” - whatever commentary) would be good but again, maybe just as guidelines in the sidebar. I don’t think it would be good to start banning people for not being specific enough in their post titles about music.
No, of course, it wouldn’t be anything to even delete a thread over. I just think a reminder would be nice so more people start tagging for those of us who like seeing that.
gonna add “-core” to random words out of the dictionary
I think it’d be fine as a suggested standard. Probably after the artist and title in [] brackets like your example. It’s not super important but it might be convenient for search.
