I dont know.. We talked about this last year but there really are just too many tracks for everyone to listen through them all.  having the instant feedback to know which ones are "trending" can be helpful.  if you make good tracks people will notice.  theres a cheat though if youre desparate/like to game systems.  favorite your own track and thats one more than a lot of other people so you jump higher in the rankings but its still just one "hit".  i got used to the weighted listings over the course of the year and it made it feel really good when people had genuine feedback to leave for me.  but im not sure really. Maybe a random system would be better?  im curious what others feel about this

It seems unlikely that quality will lead to popularity when there's currently a hundred tracks that don't have a single comment on them. Eyes are naturally going to gravitate towards the tracks that already have the social proof of comments, and away from the tracks that haven't been proven yet, leading to a "rich get richer" problem.

Last year it seems like there were only 50 or so tracks by the end. This time there is 8x that number, which means we might need a new approach. (I wasn't around for WB2012 though, so I could be mistaken.)

I'm not personally concerned about my track -  I feel like I already have a good handle on my weaknesses, and I'm using WB as a personal challenge thing. But I do feel really bad for all the people who haven't gotten any feedback at all.

Last edited by johnfn (January 6, 2014 9:08 pm)

Word to this.

Although you'd expect this to happen, it doesn't, strangely enough. I think it's because everyone there is a creator, so there's some sort of shared understanding that everyone has to be respectful about each others' work. And of course since this is a pretty small community, if we saw someone do it, we could penalize them appropriately.

I like the idea of using the ludum dare system on default. I think most people doing this challenge aren't in it for popularity, but rather to challenge themselves in a supportive group environment, so they wouldn't comment useless spam comments to try to push their track to the top. This way we also get more comments overall, because people have some kind of incentive to listen to and provide feedback on tracks. Remember that this should be part of the challenge, if no one provided feedback then this would be kinda pointless.

Either that or a random order on default would be nice.

Just for curiosity, how are the tracks being ordered by default right now?

Last edited by codekk (January 7, 2014 5:19 am)

Changed default track order to random.

I'm playing the tracks while I'm at work, should be able to get through them all without much trouble...

If you've favorited a track from a artist, all of that artist's tracks will appear. Which is irrelevant on week1 since there are no other tracks from the artist this year.