Oh wow, I've kind of stopped checking for these but Objekt is phenomenal.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 November 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
It's a cracker, looking forward to the new album too
― paolo, Friday, 16 November 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
been listening to that one today, some fine ear candy!
― calzino, Friday, 16 November 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3386
so, they're killing the comment section. can't blame them, because to effectively have comments on a site you need: a.) a defined policy on what's allowed/disallowed and b.) consistent enforcement, meaning someone has to keep an eye on things and act in a way that's subject to review
(b) is really difficult, especially if you're lacking the resources for community management (or it's not your primary goal, since you're publishing reviews/editorial). but I cynically think that (a) comes into play because while they're 100% in the right to advance views from diverse voices and argue for inclusion, a lot of discussion that was well-meaning got nuked because no one has time to sort through all that nonsense
― mh, Thursday, 3 January 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
99% of comments on any website are trash and I think part of the reason Pitchfork has continued to assert dominance in the online music review world is that it has never allowed comments. The RA comments were always particularly dispiriting, "keep identity politics out of dance music it has no place", "actually Ten Walls should be allowed to express an opinion", "who cares if Nina Kraviz can't DJ she is hot"
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 3 January 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
yupthere were some good ones here and there, but the moderation was so scattershot that a couple stray misogynist comments meant the comments were turned off for the thread in the last few months imo they need to whack the fb comments on their posts too lol
― mh, Thursday, 3 January 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
my instinctive reaction to that link was "hoo boy can't wait to see the comments on this one!"
then i scrolled down and there was no comments
:-(
― the late great, Saturday, 5 January 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
sad lol
― mh, Saturday, 5 January 2019 04:56 (five years ago) link
I don't really use the RA site other than for the occasional podcast, but I don't remember ever noticing comments before!
― saer, Saturday, 5 January 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
seems to me a convo about what this means abt their readership might be in order
or theyll find their wellbeing threatened by the techno anthony fantano or whatever
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 5 January 2019 06:23 (five years ago) link
Ive read and enjoyed the comments on RA for the reviews of almost every album I've loved in the past few years, will miss them
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 January 2019 06:33 (five years ago) link
Fact did the same on their YouTube channel a while back - for a similar reason. They’d just attract dozens and dozens of misogynistic comments about them covering too many women.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 5 January 2019 08:09 (five years ago) link
Dan what is it you enjoyed about the commments? I can't ever really remember seeing anything particuarly interesting happening outside of the misogyny, a lot of it in my experience was just "yeah nice one" "top tune this" "love the b-side" "too low a score" generic fan praise
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 5 January 2019 08:42 (five years ago) link
comments sections in general are thoroughly obsolete, back in the '90s everybody got all excited about the possibilities of the *world wide web* and building *community* and it was fairly easy to implement and it took people a couple decades to realize that creating a community was a lot of work that required an entirely different skillset from creating content, and that if you don't do that work any "community" you create is likely just going to be a, 2016 throwback incoming, dumpster fire.
― errang (rushomancy), Saturday, 5 January 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
olof dreijer podcast mix an unexpected treat, complete change of character
― mh, Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
Just listened to that, really fun.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 7 February 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Hahahahaha I was NOT prepared for the Ariana remix turning up midway through the Olof mix.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 February 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
i don't know, i find the site quite boring now without comments
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
dtiff mix p good
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
Teki Latex feature is A+++
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
(I miss the comments too even though they were almost uniformly bad. Now you need to go to their Facebook to see toxic old techno heads complaining.)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
the world of techno commenters is this bizarro world that rarely intecepts with my own
techno hashtags on instagram are (still?) in some serious "pictures of women in bikinis" territory
can anyone explain to me what "go back to drumcode" comments signify? I mean, I have a vague of what drumcode and their club nights entail but it's somehow become some shorthand for techno tourists or something
― mh, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
it’s proper popular in europe iirc
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
"proper popular" is a proper tongue-twister!
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
proper techno
― brimstead, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
I don't miss the comments. Previously, reading an RA article was like the playing the lottery for sexist and transphobic nuggets at the bottom of the page 🤢
― elan, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
tbf only on articles that weren’t about straight men
― the late great, Thursday, 14 March 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
it's true, no one ever commented about a non-male-presenting person on a thread about a male artist although vice versa is disturbingly true
― mh, Thursday, 14 March 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
i liked the comments, they gave me a glimpse into the prejudices and petty grievances and native enthusiasms of a foreign subculture
― j., Thursday, 14 March 2019 02:01 (five years ago) link
I never really visit this site but sounds like I would've gotten some good recommendations from the comments???
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
not really
― the late great, Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
comments are on the soundcloud still for those that like words and sentences
― saer, Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link
Comments section did the actual writing on the site a lot of favours in comparative terms
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 14 March 2019 09:27 (five years ago) link
No one leaves comments on Soundcloud anymore :(
(unless they're asking for track ids on mixes)
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 14 March 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
Why are people going to any of these places for the comments?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 March 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
comments can be funny
― the late great, Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
really though ilx is just a giant comments box makes u think huh
― the late great, Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
i’m just saying it seems like a very sterile and lifeless place to me now
― the late great, Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
kudos on their event pages, though. was checking to see what's going on the week i'll be in nyc and it looks like a decent selection
debating whether it's wise to sneak over to brooklyn and see modeselektor when i have work training at 8am
― mh, Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
It does feels slightly more like an empty party without the comments, but the large majority of comments were garbage that brought down the overall level of engagement that the site typically deserves. Most of the time it’s people complaining about ratings or being insecure when reviewers don’t validate their tastes. Or else it’s sexist bros, trolls, or comments no one needed to write and no one needs to read (is the world better off knowing that some dude in Italy likes the B2 on a new tech house single?)The upvote/downvote system is also terrible: people instantly affirm/dismiss things based in immediate confirmation bias, usually without considering the content.
Despite the occasional comment that’s funny or expands context, point out legitimate problems, or further illuminate contents, I’d say good riddance.
― ed.b, Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
― mh
https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1232929
― saer, Thursday, 14 March 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
noted! I might be busy saturday night but will figure that out soon
― mh, Thursday, 14 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
All dance music writers should be required to renew their certification every year by distinguishing between the Think break and the Funky Drummer break.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
As of today, Resident Advisor will stop including numerical scores in record reviewshttps://t.co/f73Ct9AJsB— Resident Advisor (@residentadvisor) September 2, 2019
― willem, Monday, 2 September 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link
I haven't really paid attention to RA's podcast of late but I see there is a recent one from Truly Madly, looking forward to hearing that one!
― saer, Monday, 2 September 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
Numerical scores are a daft idea, good riddance.
― mirostones, Monday, 2 September 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
shame RA couldn't take the lead with multiple scores or plot it on some axis or something
― ogmor, Monday, 2 September 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
I do like the idea of this - a savage sentence can say a lot more than a 2.8/5 rating - but I wonder why they have chosen to do this and why now.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 2 September 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
Anyway lets just hope they dont fuck up again like they did with that original racist review of Gottwood
― boxedjoy, Monday, 2 September 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
Seems like they were gravitating to this for awhile. For the last few months ratings have felt much more arbitrary - e.g. a lot of 4.0s, which makes sense if, as I suspect, many readers have a tendency to just skip over reviews that don't pass a certain threshold.
― ed.b, Monday, 2 September 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link