• Registered: 2006-10-20
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Topic: If you don't know, don't post

It's great to see so many guitar enthusiasts on this site, but I've found some pretty sour and sorry tabs... ok, not just some, but a LOT. If you are not sure if something is right, or if your tone deaf, please don't post crap on here. It just makes it that much more difficult to find good tabs. It's not my intention to hurt anyone's feelings with this post, but rather to bring this problem to attention. Anyways, rock on.

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  • Registered: 2006-02-26
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Re: If you don't know, don't post

First just a fact: Chordie is a search engine. No songs are posted here.


What songs that are included is my responsibility. But there are more than 1 million songs indexed from around 100 different sites, and I do not look at them all.


I do remove sites when the quality is too low, and I generally add more fan-sites than large archives since the quality of the fan-sites seems to be higher.


To make Chordie better, it is something you can do(!!!):

* Always rate songs. Songs with low rating will disappear in a few weeks if there are better alternatives available. Sometimes I discover patterns in the ratings, and this might lead to entire sites being removed, or artists from one site being preferred.

* If there are small errors: Add comments to the songs.


One advise to the raters: If you find different versions of the same song with varying quality, exaggerate the rating. Ie: Give the worst song a very bad rating visa versa. This will give my algorithms a very strong hint about removing the worst song, and Chordie will be a lot better.