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Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

Thanks. That tidbit about moderation helps, and I think I already have the hang of it. It's pretty easy to use. Though I do have a couple of questions.

1. I noticed that my level and score change only every so often. I could be wrong, but how often does the site update scores?
2. The advanced search doesn't seem to work for charts. I check "power metal" and nothing shows, but I can look up a power metal chart on the search bar at the top of the screen. DO you have any indication as to when the advanced search will be fixed?

Luigii

Gender: Male
Age: 28

Spyglass wrote:

Thanks. That tidbit about moderation helps, and I think I already have the hang of it. It's pretty easy to use. Though I do have a couple of questions.

1. I noticed that my level and score change only every so often. I could be wrong, but how often does the site update scores?
2. The advanced search doesn't seem to work for charts. I check "power metal" and nothing shows, but I can look up a power metal chart on the search bar at the top of the screen. DO you have any indication as to when the advanced search will be fixed?

I could probably answer #1. This is probably due to being so many users registered on this site. And actions like moderation, adding albums on personal lists and others take a bit for the algorithm to update do to the people and what is being set. Allegedly, due to not working behind the scenes but being around for quite some time to make a hypothetical guess.

#2 would be more of a albummaster explanation.

albummaster
Janitor

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Location: Spain
Site Admin

Yes points are updated few times each day., every four to six hours from memory. On the advanced search page, be sure to check ‘charts’ are selected as default is ‘artists’, if this is still a problem I’ll check into.

Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

albummaster wrote:

Yes points are updated few times each day., every four to six hours from memory. On the advanced search page, be sure to check ‘charts’ are selected as default is ‘artists’, if this is still a problem I’ll check into.

Thanks. I checked all of the search options, and searching through charts is the only thing that doesn't work right now.

By the way, I've finally updated my chart to 100. It can be viewed here:

https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=58336

This is still a prototype, and once I'm able to make yearcharts, I can use those to compare to each other for the decade and overall ones. Then I just hope my overall top 100 is perfected.

Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

I just found out that everytime I comment on a chart, I'm set to "watch" the chart for later comments. I didn-t see anything that seemed to turn it off in my profile page. How can I stop this from happening?
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Do it yourself and let me play my music: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=61802

albummaster
Janitor

Gender: Male
Location: Spain
Site Admin

Spyglass wrote:

I just found out that everytime I comment on a chart, I'm set to "watch" the chart for later comments. I didn-t see anything that seemed to turn it off in my profile page. How can I stop this from happening?

The 'Notify me when someone replies to one of my album, band or chart comments:' setting on your profile can be changed to 'no' and you'll not be notified.

albummaster
Janitor

Gender: Male
Location: Spain
Site Admin

Spyglass wrote:

Thanks. I checked all of the search options, and searching through charts is the only thing that doesn't work right now.

The issue with chart searches is now fixed (thanks for reporting)

Spyglass
Resident Metalhead

Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map

I've got two questions.

A. Can I add EP's?
B. Can I link videos from Youtube?
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Do it yourself and let me play my music: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=61802

albummaster
Janitor

Gender: Male
Location: Spain
Site Admin

This is an album site, so all releases on BEA need to have at least five tracks OR be 20 minutes or longer. (EPs can be listed on BEA provided they meet either of these criteria).

Videos can be embedded on the forums using the 'YouTube' tag. There's further info on the forum FAQ regarding this and other tags (only YouTube is supported for video at the moment).

RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

@Spyglass - another way you can gain points (albeit a smaller amount per action, but each action is easy) is by rating songs on album pages (I think it's a 1/4 point per rating), as well as the the album itself. So you can get 5 points for rating a 20 track album or for rating 20 albums or whatevs. You can haz the maths.

The overall is built upon the rank of albums on charts (aggregated, etc.), whereas the top rated section is based on what ratings albums/songs/artists, etc. get.