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Community poll - do we want a new rule (or perhaps, light suggestion) about adding genre tags? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some people tend to post what genre their post is, some don't. Personally, I like seeing the tags there so we know what we're about to listen to, or at least get an idea of it.

Probably wouldn't be a hard rule, but maybe something added to the sidebar like "Please add a genre description. if you remember to."

Whatcha all think?

EDIT: For clarity, all I mean is formatting post titles like "Weedeater - Wizard Fight [sludge/punk]"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Genres are big circles on a giant never-ending Venn diagram of types of [thing in question]. Multiple genre labels will often apply to a single piece of music, and you can trace the influences that led to a certain genre's emergence.

Don't think of it as categories in the music store. Think of it as a taxonomy that primarily exists to help you find stuff that's similar to what you already like.