When people post a link to a song, there is no way to tell what kind of music it is or what period it's from. To help engagement and the user experience, I suggest we require people to at least write the genre and year in the title of their post. Bonus points for adding some explanation in the body of the post about the significance of the song and why they're sharing it.

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[–] pastanomaly@waveform.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I disagree. Year could be ok I guess but genre tags sometimes discourage folks from clicking on something they otherwise would if it’s not immediately appealing to them. Sometimes less context is best context.

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think people have the right to choose if they want to listen to something within their comfort zone or not. People have a generally good idea of what they like and don't like, and it's very reasonable for people to want to discover new music within genres they are familiar with.

[–] pastanomaly@waveform.social 1 points 2 years ago

You’re making some assumptions about how people operate that I’m not sure I agree with. But maybe you can make a different community - genre-specific or something. Or just live dangerously and click the genre-less links.

[–] Aurix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The year is a useful metric, unfortunately genre is such a sloppy thing it is definitely better left out. For that genre specific communities should be used.

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago

I feel that Lemmy is still too small for many genres to have their own community.

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Disagree, even a generic genre marker is useful.

[–] grape54321@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

year would be really helpful

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you make genre mandatory then the genre hawks come and discourage posting.

[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then the problem would be people squabbling about genre, which can easily be stopped. I don't think we should prevent ourselves from doing something potentially very helpful because we foresee a chance of another problem occurring, especially one that can be dealt with.

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just saying. The genre thing is why I never participated in r/music

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

100% agree with this.

Songs should be ArtistName - SongName [Genres] (Year) - optional additional info

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The genres have gotten so out of hand, I have no idea what is what outside of usual vague "pop rock metal hip hop" labeling. The year I understand.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's a bad idea. You know what kind of music it is? Music someone wanted you to hear. Feel free to post genre and year, just don't mandate it.