Quote from: Mussar on January 10, 2016, 05:54:06 am

To be honest I thought you already had to comment on two other people's posts with critiques before being able to post any of your work. I'd definitely second the idea of setting a post limit (maybe Subsonics can't post new songs? Maybe even Sub Basses?), and some sort of ranking system so people can be aware of what the producer's skill level and how they should approach their feedback. It's a little frustrating to look for feedback and get "oh wow this sounds amazing great job!!!!!!" as a response, so helping people find peer groups, mentors, and pupils might be beneficial.

If the number of posts is to give people privileges, it will only amount to post whoring.  People leaving short non sense feedback.  There are already some who feel they have to comment on everything, even if they have no value in what they write.
I can only speak for myself, but I feel it´s really horrible to criticize finished work.  I mean, this is something that the creators say that they are happy with. Done. That makes it hard to say that " you should do this, and this...".

I think that's a good point; we should try to find a way to keep people from making accounts JUST to post their tracks and not contribute, while preventing people from just spamming comments on things without genuine feedback.

And you might think it's bad to criticized finished work, but at the same time how do people grow if all someone's gonna say is "Wow, what a good song!"

I would much rather be told "Your drums are rocking, the chords could do with some work, and you could probably have spent some more time on your lead sound to get it to gel with the rest of your mix. Keep going!"


I suppose I'm just of the opinion that posting your songs for compliments and only compliments is not a way to develop and grow as an artist. If someone says "I don't want any critiques of my work" I'm not gonna just throw shade obviously, but if you go into both the WIPs and Finished Tracks subforums almost every thread has someone asking for opinions or feedback. This is a place for people to learn from each other, and you can't learn from someone who tells you that you're doing everything correctly - otherwise there'd be no reason for you to learn in the first place!

Quote from: ion on January 10, 2016, 02:33:18 pm

I can only speak for myself, but I feel it´s really horrible to criticize finished work.  I mean, this is something that the creators say that they are happy with. Done. That makes it hard to say that " you should do this, and this...".

It's also something that the creators are asking for feedback on. Why is this even being discussed? Feedback has always been a big part of any discussion forum; the board is called "Sharing and Feedback." Personally, I feel better receiving feedback after I've finished a piece, as whenever I've received feedback on a WIP I've been sort of biased when I'd continue work on it, but I guess that's irrelevant. Feedback is a part of the forum, we should be deciding on how to make it more efficient.

I don't think it needs to be any more complicated than specifying what you'd like to get feedback on in your post. "Here's my track, I'd like to know what you guys think of x, y, and z." Simple, efficient, what else is there to say?