It's not just the submissions that are the problem. If NG did a better job at weeding out alternate vote acct's and had a better voting system, then good music would be the only thing on the front page. As it is now, the same cats end up on the FP because they load up 10 or 20 alts, hit up a crew of their loyal fanatics and go from 3.1 to 4.3 rating in under 20 minutes every 3 or 4 days.
I've seen some tracks get back on FP and go from 140 to 160 votes in a half hour. And this was tracks that shoulda been buried deep in a users submissions so it wasn't some kind of hype or sudden exposure the song got to gain that many votes. And we all know from experience that a track can get 100 listens and only 2 votes, but some of these FP all-stars get a 2-for-1 listen-to-vote ratio? Come on...that's the same ploy they use on myspace for click-thru and song listens and it ain't a real measure of your popularity.
I've upped WIPs, but if ya check my audio now you'll note that I've culled a few of my tracks from my listing because they didn't live up to my standards now. My first track is gone, and I deleted it with nearly a 4.0 avg. rating. I agree, the hip-hop section gets crapped on by alot of people, ranging from little kids hating on hip-hop so they put up stupid parodies, all the way up to adults who can't rap and don't know how to create instrumentals but have two funny lines involving feces and a rival user in the forums, so everyone 5's them.
Your music doesn't suck. Frankly, I wish you and Greeksta would come back full force and put out more tracks here because we need the infusion of epic Hip-Hop. I don't make epic ambient pieces that can stand alone, but the two of you, kamakazi, and some of the other tops do. And Reven and some of the other old NG audio peeps who put out the best vocalizations also are needed.
Anyhow, if ya think anything I put up is garbage, I don't flame reviews that give constructive criticism. I wish more people would leave reviews. As it is, it's like pulling teeth in the H-H section. Plenty of people are willing to 0 bomb without giving a reason why, maybe because they are too scared to admit that it's because you don't respect their own idolization of Hip-Hop...
Thanks for the audio, the opinion and the willingness to express it.
Peace
flashmac
I admit, I've submited garbage to the portal but only because I thought it sounded good at the time. I have like 20 beats I'm never going to submit because it's not worth being on the internet (in other words, it sucks).
Well anyway as soon as I get reason, hopefully I'm not one of the "newcomers anymore". Good luck with your beats and let's hope people actually start to spend more time on their music (including me haha)
Zajed
ye right flashmac i heaqr you, at first you think a track is good but later you think it sux i know that but seriously i have that problem too lol