Reply To: Uploading standards – WTF?

I like the idea of a comment box. they do this on certain sites where you can download free soundfonts that users upload or make themselves. This way you can get an idea of the quality of the soundfont file as stated by other users, before you download it.

This same concept works with a rating system as well. A five star rating system is more user friendly, because you just have to click the rating you wish to give the pella instead of typing into a box.

The ratings are averaged together and that average is the overall rating of the pella.

The rating system more useful than comment boxes because this rating can be incorporated into the "Search" function when searching for a certain acapella, or acapellas in general. I.E you could tell the search engine to find only those pellas with a rating of 4 to 5 stars. You couldnt tell a search engine to find the pellas with the best comments, however the comments would obviously be more descriptive of the quality.

The "preview" button works well most of the time. Other times you wont even hear the pella for the whole preview or the intro of the pella is so long that you dont get to hear the part of the pell that actually has drums and instruments in the background. You dont get to preview the pellas until you have contributed to the forums. I believe it is ten posts or so which is defintitely fair.

So, maybe have a longer preview of the songs??? and maybe add a rating system for each pella in which the same guidelines apply. I.E you must have ten posts before the rating of the pella is visible to the user and the preview feature is active.