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.
100% agree with this.
Songs should be ArtistName - SongName [Genres] (Year) - optional additional info
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.
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.
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.
If you make genre mandatory then the genre hawks come and discourage posting.
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.
