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Comment by seph-reed | Hacker News Reader

People keep getting this problem wrong. The solution is to have bubbles/groups. You join a group of like minded people and then rank/moderate your own content in ways that are less magical.

Subreddits are a great example, or highly specific forums like HN.

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Interesting suggestion! I'm working on expanding smgmusicdisplay.com. SMG's a tool used by Twitch streamers to display what music they're currently playing.

I'm designing a song played history page for streamers where their viewers can browse through their most played songs, their history, favorites etc... But I really like this idea of adding community moderation into the mix as well!

Streamers are known for having tightly knit communities. So far I've been excited about building this idea, but I ran into a roadblock where smaller artists would still not get much more exposure... But in this case, if an individual streamer likes a particular artist, that can actually result in a lot of exposure, even for small artists!

Thanks for this suggestion!

After speaking with artists I think there are several issues with this approach (though also advantages). These groups either have a few tastemakers controlling the opinions of the masses which musicians already consider a major issue. On the other side of the spectrum are groups that operate as a free for all where musicians are posting so many links that each song is not given a real chance or where musicians set up like for like rings to go scale the reddit/group vote ladder.

I also think elo rating is a very transparent system.

Community moderation > Automated feeds.

Does anyone have an example of an automated feed proving more useful to them? The closest I can think of is play next while listening to music on YouTube.

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