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Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content

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Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content

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Post by user24 »

breadnwater wrote: post #7
GotAnyMegadeth wrote: post #2

This site looks great, signed up. However: > Next Big Thing is not a place for ... anything else flat out offensive. One of my favourite bands at the moment is "Rotting Christ" that name alone is very offensive to some people. Does that mean I can't post stuff about them? Where is the line? Can I post anything Black metal related? What about Gore Grind? I think music has a much wider view of what is acceptable than t…

If you have no objection to a band, song or album cover that degrades your mother or someone else you love and revere, then hey, maybe it should all be fair game. Do you understand where I'm getting at? That's how Christians feel with names like that. P.S. I don't think for a second that the name of someone you love should be degraded. Nor should someone I love either. That's my point.

Almost anything is offensive to some group or other. Who decides, a benevolent dictator?

Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content

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Post by DanBC »

This looks good, and I'm excited by the idea of finding music new to me.

NBT itself seems to have died under the traffic, so I have some (perhaps stupid) questions:

1) How do you deal with voting rings and other gaming?

2) How do you deal with 'bubbles' - Some services keep me pretty tightly locked in to a certain bubble, when what I want is some leakage to explore and find new content.

Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content

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Post by pseut »

breadnwater wrote: post #7
GotAnyMegadeth wrote: post #2

This site looks great, signed up. However: > Next Big Thing is not a place for ... anything else flat out offensive. One of my favourite bands at the moment is "Rotting Christ" that name alone is very offensive to some people. Does that mean I can't post stuff about them? Where is the line? Can I post anything Black metal related? What about Gore Grind? I think music has a much wider view of what is acceptable than t…

If you have no objection to a band, song or album cover that degrades your mother or someone else you love and revere, then hey, maybe it should all be fair game. Do you understand where I'm getting at? That's how Christians feel with names like that. P.S. I don't think for a second that the name of someone you love should be degraded. Nor should someone I love either. That's my point.

So, you want the "next big thing," but not the next sex pistols? I agree that you should encourage civil and thoughtful discussion on the site (can't check it out now because of HN load, I assume) but I'm sure you know lots of new important music is controversial. And it's easy to forget that some massively influential and accepted bands started out controversial. Controversial usually means "offensive to many" so you might want to reassess your decision here.

And to address the quote specifically:

>If you have no objection to a band, song or album cover that degrades your mother or someone else you love and revere, then hey, maybe it should all be fair game.

I wouldn't want users to degrade me or my family. But I've got no problem with a band calling itself "kill the families of all the atheists" (wouldn't go out of my way to listen to them, but that's a separate issue -- I'm an atheist, btw, so I'll choose that example) and if they're good their music should be on any good music site.

Depending on where you want to go with the project, it might be better to design the site to discourage participation by people who take band names and lyrics personally. Those people often don't have a lot to contribute to music discussions anyway...

edit: typos. Also I realize now that this is addressed as though I'm replying to the author of the original service, but I'm probably not. Sorry for any confusion that causes.

Re: Next Big Thing, a HN-like site for music content

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Post by pseut »

brador wrote: post #8

Is there an open source version of HN anywhere?

To add to the other replies: reddit's open source as well[0] and reasonably straightforward to set up (at least using their Ubuntu installer). Not your question, I know, but thought I'd add for completeness.

[0] https://github.com/reddit/reddit

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