Cutting back on Spam idea

I don't know if Mike and chopin have already talked about something like this or not.

But my suggestion to cut back on spam/one timers, would sort of be like a monetary system. You can post music of your own for review, although, before you do, you have to review other peoples music. And for each review you recieve Critique Talents, and the more in depth your review is, the more Talents you recieve. And in order to post your own music, you have to spend your Talents to post a new thread.

Mike?

I'm not sure how this would work - it would have to be automatic, and that would definitely invite spamming of other people's threads.

Sounds a bit elaborate.

I like the basic idea of simply requiring that one have 50 (or however many) posts before he/she can post a piece. That would eliminate most if not all of the problems.

Sounds a bit elaborate.

I like the basic idea of simply requiring that one have 50 (or however many) posts before he/she can post a piece. That would eliminate most if not all of the problems.

I agree with that, and I'd certainly be much easier to do

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/new-policy-we-considering-2471.html

We've discussed a similar proposal to this before, and reached the conclusion that it wouldn't work.

I would like to re-insert my highlight composer of the week idea from what seems to be forever ago.

Ok, I didnt think of that when I thought of the idea. Maybe we could just have a showcase of compositions that would change every week. It would not have to be related to how great the compositions would be. It may just be like an alphabetical list and for one week the posted compositions would be the first five off that list of people. The compositions would probably have to be the most recent. Or wait a minute. Maybe we could just highlight a composer every week. We could have a little profile that would pop up on the composer of the week page. Then his favorite compositions would be included on the page. It would just be a new composer each week that would have nothing to do with the quality of the work so it would be fair. I also think that if people could check out a composer each week they would be researching someone that they did not even know existed. I think that this would be a great way to meet the people who were on this site and get them involved in the community.

Yes, that's also been recently suggested in the form of "Young Composers Radio", a future feature I was planning to work on at some point. Or perhaps something that could be worked into the upcoming music management software.

Sounds a bit elaborate.

I like the basic idea of simply requiring that one have 50 (or however many) posts before he/she can post a piece. That would eliminate most if not all of the problems.

Do we really want someone to put up 50 short, spammy posts in order to post a piece?! :D

It sounds too complicated--a whole system of spending and keeping track... but whatever...