Top Fans are Useless!

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Leader: Kerensky97
Criteri di appartenenza: Aperto
Data creazione: 17 Nov 2005
Descrizione:

This is the group for people who enjoy music and don't see this site as a method of proving their dedication to one band.

Listening to music is not a competition!

Last.FM gathers a lot of stats on music usage to match you to similar artists. The byproduct is that it can find who is the most focused on one type of artist. This Top Fan stat doesn’t really affect Last FM in any way, it’s just a leftover result of a computer algorithm.

Some people see this as more than it is. They may be a fan of a particular band and they feel the Top Artist title proves to the world that they are the biggest fan of that artist. And to get to the top they’re willing to skew their last.fm profile to make it look like they listen to their band more than they do. Often by playing songs on repeat at night, when they’re not home, or with the mute on; it's ironic that any artist wouldn't consider their top fan somebody who plays their music with the mute on.

The affect this has on the last.fm community is hard to define. It doesn’t affect overall band popularity but it may match you up with somebody with a faked taste in music. At the very least somebody cooking their play count wastes server cycles that could better be served matching the rest of up to new music. Regardless of the problems the message of this group is clear.

Music isn’t a competition.

The Top Fans have become abused. "Top Fans" are doing themselves a disservice; if this site is used correctly you’ll find out there your narrow taste in music isn’t as narrow as you think. Soon the thought of being restricted to one artist will be unthinkable.

Join up now. You won’t get another pony but people will know that you’re not at this site to prove yourself to others, you’re here to enjoy music.

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Kotori_Monou

Music isn’t a competition. [4] Listen the music because you are knowing the discography of the artist is a thing but just listen for listen is ridiculous.I know two crazy who do this: they keep the pc turned on and playing when they aren't at home and stuff.Crazy things ._.

Giugno 2011
moichispa

Music isn’t a competition. [3]

Marzo 2011
florianblaschke

kennorth: Which is just freaking stupid because it doesn't help bands on the charts. It only drives the total playcount up. Artists' song charts and group charts as well as the total charts are made such that it counts only the number of users who have scrobbled a song/artist within a certain week, not how often they have scrobbled the song/artist. You can scrobble one and the same track 20,000 times a week and it won't change the charts one bit.

Settembre 2010
ermal1991

delete top fans and plays,im mostly here to discover new shit. I can find out 10 new bands in less than 5 minutes. I go to torrent and download them and thats it. But yea if i like a song ill put it in repeat and change it when i feel like.

Agosto 2010
Unremixable

Music isn’t a competition. [2]

Maggio 2010
agungd88

this is not important thing to discuss, bring back free last.fm is better wether i was top fans or not who cares??

Aprile 2010
iron3001

atleast top fans are the best known fans for that artist, LOL

Aprile 2010
yo09

yup!

Aprile 2010
Unstable43D

Can someone explain to me how top listeners are decided?

Luglio 2009
Hallucino-

Sometimes I have a few tracks from one artist on replay, but only because I like listening to them ._.

Giugno 2009
corpseargyle

I'm a top listener of Vex Red, I didn't do it by 'skewing'. Good band, few little listeners, and I believe the album's now rare as....

Aprile 2009
Tripcodefag

Top Listeners are fucking dumb. Look at what they listened to from said band. Probably.............. 7 songs max on fucking replay

Marzo 2009
farpin

This is a really good idea for a group. Just out of curiosity/suspicion, I looked at the plays for one of Sonic Youth's top listeners - the dude had supposedly been listening to music nonstop for days. Pathetic!

Febbraio 2009
kennorth

I don't think a lot of people do it to get top fan status - I know a lot of people who do those things to get their favorite bands higher up on the last.fm charts

Gennaio 2009
Liebe_Ist

http://www.last.fm/user/Lauiii/

Giugno 2008
kb7clx

A few weeks ago I saw a bunch of fake profiles as top artists of Banda Calypso I couldn't believe it. It's not as if they have a huge listenership here anyway. It had to be one goofball who did it because of the same join date. One listened to them 44 times, the next 43, and so on, and it was the only band they ever listened to. I guess there were about 15 of these fakes lol.

Aprile 2008
deathbat_smile

I spend like 90% of my time listening to the same band so it kinda annoys me that you make it sound like noone listens to bands that much. But I do like other stuff too. I acctually have more varied music tastes than a lot of people. However you're right about how stupid the people who put songs on repeat at night or on mute or whatever are.

Aprile 2008
rinistiltskin

idk, I'm a Top Fan of Kim Yoon Ah (e.g.), because there are only a few hundred fans of hers on last.fm, and when I get into a listening kick, I'll listen to her on repeat for a good part of a week (or longer). So she'll get like 400 plays in my weekly chart. Same goes for The Divine Comedy. I like using my last.fm profile to give some favourite lesser-known bands or artists greater exposure.

Novembre 2007
Sidepipe

Yeah its useless but i like it for my self, if my favourite artist stays on 1... ;)

Maggio 2007
Ashtoreth

Ahem... Wait a second... I just took a look at your top artists chart... It looks like Pinocchio! :O So... Vade retro! LOL

Marzo 2007