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Started this discussion. Last reply by scrivener Nov. 7, 2008.

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At 11:30pm on November 17, 2008, scrivener said…: Hi. Yes, I finally have a ranking (#900 right now). Yours really is weird: You have a global rank and no points neighbors. Maybe you're playing this game on a completely different level, or in some alternate reality! I have a feeling they're still just playing around with it and we can expect weird quirks like this for a while.

At 8:55am on November 13, 2008, scrivener said…: Actually, my profile page still isn't showing a ranking. I've seen it on a few others' pages, but I'm still not getting the point neighbors or the global ranking.

At 6:29am on November 13, 2008, Greg said…: Okay, I guess Lonelygirl didn't get her wish after all. Apparently the global ranking only applies to the top 1000 according to some other listeners. Your ranking of 5835 seems to be an anomaly as I can't find anyone else with a +1000 ranking. Scrivener should also be ranked #984 as far as I can tell. All in all I haven't been able to find a clean cut answer, yet. Mathmanmrt's page is back and most people who were having issues yesterday seem to have them straightened out now.

At 6:24pm on November 12, 2008, Greg said…: Okay, things are weird. Mathmanmrt's profile page won't load at all! My profile page and stats also wouldn't load one day but it was a site issue I guess 'cause no amount of refreshing/restarting/rebooting helped but it was fixed the next day. I also figured out why Burt's global ranking and points neighbors disappeared. Apparently, the big bros granted the wish of Lonelygirl who posted on the Hawaii group's homepage that she wanted nothing to do with it and asked to please be removed from it. They granted her wish and extended it to all of Hawaii's members! That's insane! I figured the big bros did a lot of listening, I've heard a lot of grumbling, but I haven't heard of much big bros ever acquiescing and granting anyone's wishes.

At 8:36pm on November 3, 2008, Greg said…: t61 has that character limit thing on walls so I figured I'd give you a little more of a reply here. I've lost a lot on a lot of songs, I didn't get romantic lv4 bumping for points. Recently, I've made a lot more points by not bumping so much, lol. So bumping music you think is good is not a guarantee for points for everyone. You have to have an ear for what will be popular and throw in some early bumps on it. Older songs won't get you much, especially short term. Personally, I've played a mixed realist/idealist strategy judiciously bumping what I like and what I think is good whether I like it or not, so long as I don't hate it. If I love it I bump it regardless of point gain or loss. Still most of the songs on t61 don't fall into the love or hate categories and are somewhere in between. If you want to make a lot of points try and be one of the first couple of bumpers on surefire songs. Arcadia has made a shitload of points in something like a month more than me by pretty much playing the fb to first 10 bumper strategy on great songs. He's been called a first bump specialist and if you look at his stat page you'll see why. You'd have to sit on the browse by today page 1 - 10 bumps constantly refreshing and opening potential songs in new tabs and bumping what you want right after the 1 min mark to ensure earliest possible bump place. That's too time consuming for me and hell for most people. Tonlocdog appears to follow a similar strategy as he's in the first 5-10 bumps on many a successful song. Most, actually all the ones I've looked at, of the top listeners are picky early bumpers. It's hard to make big points when the later you bump the more bumpers you need after you to make a point. Greater risk = higher profit. Also, the more you bump the more points you'll have invested and the more songs will be earning you a point income. Tonlocdog hasn't been on t61 as long as I have, about a month or so shy, but has made more bumps than I have. If you bump what you think is good some songs will earn you a big reward soon, others a steady longterm income and others will bring you a longterm profit. It's also possible, I've heard of and made 100+ point profits on older songs that just keep building their listener base, get revived and tuneboxed, etc... My brain is turning to jelly... hope this made sense.

At 1:28pm on October 6, 2008, irsocal said…: Thanks for the link. It looks like you got at least a little inspiration from t61 as I'm seeing Wonkavision on your most recent playlist. =>

At 12:08pm on October 2, 2008, irsocal said…: Great! Is that the name of your show? I liked a few songs of Wonkavision, and thought the original language versions (Braz-Port) sounded a bit more natural.

Brazil seems to be exploding out the gate musically, lots of fascinating finds recently.

At 4:46pm on October 1, 2008, Greg said…: sorry, no twitter, yet

At 3:37pm on October 1, 2008, Greg said…: Hey, Ling, huliwuxian here. For Sensei go to the browse page and set 1)Genre to all, 2)Sort to today and 3) bumps 0 - 10 ( 0 - 0 will default to 0 - 10) This will give you the songs from today with the fewest bumps thus shortening the pages you have to browse through looking for the undiscovered. You could further shorten it by specifying your genre of choice but blogscrapes tend to be labeled dance and artists can and often do vary the genre they attach to different songs. Once you see a song with 0 bumps click it to start listening and hit the bump button twice. The first time you hit the bump button it'll say you gotta listen for 1min, the second time it'll tell you how many secs left till you can bump it (as will all subsequent hits before the 1min mark so you could do a countdown in this way) and will also now notify you by popup the moment you can bump it. You may want to keep browsing and open up other possibilities in new tabs alternating mutes until you determine what song you like best. Also, keep flipping through the pages and hitting the Submit Query or refresh button to keep up to date. There is a fair amount of competition so best decide within the required listening minute if it's a song you like enough to first bump. You only get one first bump every 12 hrs so make 'em count. This is sometimes referred to derogatively as 'sharking' but given that virtually everybody does it your chances of a decent song slipping through the cracks long enough for you to stumble across it in the rack is miniscule. From here to sensei is just a matter of enough unique listeners and bumps to push it to the homepage. The number of bumps and unique listeners necessary varies according to both the genre of the song (less popular genres have less stringent requirements) and the artist's level - higher levels require more bumps & listeners.

On an unrelated side note are you studying Chinese now? I like the traditional characters better myself - my comp is trad Chinese Vista. Funiculy is actually the only person I've ever typed in simplified chars to, lol. I usually do trad chars with zhuyinfuhao, aka bopomofo, and the hanyupinyin gets my fingers all mixed up.

At 2:15pm on October 1, 2008, Burt said…: Ah spoken like a true music lover. I used to listen to music but for some reason all I listen to now is left-wing liberal talk radio.