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RFNAPLES · #233 | Posted: 04/29/2010 18:37 | Post subject:

I see the spelling checker as completely optional. Use it only when you want, don't really care whose English you use. You wouldn't want the spell checker to run in the background just on demand, either optionally for any highlighted word/s or for the entire post. It would not be infallible but it could help some of us look at little more professional if desired.
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RFNAPLES · #234 | Posted: 05/06/2010 02:06 | Post subject:

I suggest we add The Top 50 Albums of All Time As voted by Sound & Vision's Editors and Critics (November 2008) as a recognized chart. See http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/featur...s-all-time
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albummaster · #235 | Posted: 05/14/2010 11:38 | Post subject:

this chart has now been added - http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=1962

RFNAPLES · #236 | Posted: 05/14/2010 11:39 | Post subject:

Thanks!
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RFNAPLES · #237 | Posted: 05/22/2010 21:17 | Post subject:

Looks like we should have another recognized chart (mentioned in another forum topic).

Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums by Colin Larkin (1998) ISBN-10: 0753502585

The world's most authorive guide to the perfect record collection based on over 100,000 votes from the fans, the experts, and the critics.
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albummaster · #238 | Posted: 05/23/2010 07:50 | Post subject:

thanks - this has now been added: http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=1990

RFNAPLES · #239 | Posted: 05/23/2010 09:32 | Post subject:

Noticed that the Virgin chart is not shown as a recognized chart yet (see customize overall chart). Also questioning the authenticity of the 2000 chart (vs. the 1998). Perhaps it shouldn't be recognized after all--2000 paperback cover doesn't bare Virgin trademark and is out-of-print while the 1998 book is still in print.

Question on recognized charts. By definition they must be all-time charts without genre qualifiers. I believe some charts were excluded because they eliminated some recent years. What is the difference between a chart published in 2010 showing the greatest albums from 1950 to 2000 and an all-time chart published in 2000? They both eliminate the last 10 years; one by publication date, the other by design.

This also begs the question, how long should a chart be "recognized?" We have already eliminated the older versions of the Q chart but how current should the recognized charts be? For instance, MOJO chart was published in 1995. Surely not too current and missing at least the last 15 years producing a bias towards the older "classics."
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albummaster · #240 | Posted: 05/23/2010 14:32 | Post subject:

No, it doesn't show on that page yet but it will do as soon as the stats have been refreshed.

We chose the 2000 version because it was the latest available chart by that source (no logo, but contains the word 'Virgin' in the title and was published by Virgin Books). I didn't realize it was out of print, but so is the magazine Melody Maker which also has a chart on this site.

When the site started in 2005, we seeded the intial data from a number of sources and Mojo was one of them. There are only three charts on here compiled before the year 2000 (Guardian, Mojo & Q), but there are over 1,500 member charts compiled after 2005.

The reason the Q charts only have one scoring version is that each BEA member gets one vote. Rather like a member revising their own chart multiple times, the older Q version is replaced by their newset selections.

Yes, there is undoubtedly an age bias because the longer the site exists, older albums will gain more and more votes making it more difficult for a newer album to break through (although In Rainbows and others have done so despite this). On the other hand, newer albums are likely to be more in the consciousness of most people and so may be favoured on newer lists. This is particularly true for a lot of our members who are younger than twenty and did not grow up with The Beatles (or anything from the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s) and so will favour the music they grew up with (i.e. 1990s and 2000s).

At some point, it might be appropriate for us to introduce something to ignore charts older than x years, but I'm not sure if we have reached that stage yet. I'd personally rather wait until we have a larger pool of member charts and then we could maybe look at ignoring member charts not updated in the last year (or such-like). Recognised lists are rarer and more difficult to find, if we had an age rule here, our pool of recognised charts would be tiny or non-existent.