April Fool's Day Follow-Up

[Blitz Lunar]

yeah pretty much any system can be exploited if people are hell bent on it. i don't see it being a big problem. just have ratings assigned to accounts rather than IPs, it's less prone to exploitation that way. who's going to bother registering tonnes of accounts just to boost ratings? and, if they do, it'd be far easier for us to delete accounts than them to make them. so basically if there are issues they can be dealt with as they appear, but like CtrlAltDel has said i very much doubt it'll be a big problem, if one at all.

that being said(!), i'm still fairly indifferent to ratings

[The_Epitome]

I'm not sure ratings would be that useful, to be honest.
It would be useful if there were about 15 sequences for one track (which is the case for a few tunes, i.e. Ice Cap Zone from Sonic) and you just wanted the best sounding one.
It would also be useful if you were on the lookout for new discoveries - good music from games you've not played.
On the whole, however, people will visit the site to find recreations of tunes they already know, and sometimes even an awful sequence will interest the visitor because it brings back memories. If it's truly truly awful, it won't be in the archive anyway.

In terms of outcomes from a rating system, on the plus side it would give you, as a sequencer, some nice feedback or even ego massaging if somebody highly rates your sequences.
On the minus side, what's to stop somebody just rating everything as 1 out of 5? I remember watching somebody going on a 'hot or not' website and rating everybody as 0 and giggling the whole time. It's all a matter of taste, anyway.

I suggest you go by the sequencer name instead!

[Blitz Lunar]

Comments on sequences would be far more awesome

[Secret Agent Man]

Comments on sequences would be far more awesome

Lunar's a truck.

[Laike]

Would this be a bad time to point out that I rarely listen to MIDIs any more? My computer has 1.7TB of storage space on it... Heck, my MP3 player has 80GB of storage space!

Yes it would. You could have millions of redundant copies of all our MIDI files on there! How DARE you not support our artistic endeavors!

On a more serious note, I first started submitting things to this site over ten years ago in the fanboyish hope that there could at least be as many Lunar MIDI files as Final Fantasy MIDI files. I continued long after MP3 files became popular because they were a) a lot of fun, b) great arrangement and pitch-training exercises, and c) fascinating composition exercises. I submitted files because I liked the music, not because I wanted to become Internet-famous or something.

With all that said, I fully support anything that brings more attention to the sequencers as well as the music, including every suggestion so far (especially a comment system, which I'd have loved and still would). I never have and never will submit files purely for recognition, but any feedback is a good thing.