Is prog opposed to the idea of hit songs?

Pedro, almost every day, collabs add bands you have likely never heard about.  I say this confidently because they are new bands and not your pet obscure favourites from the 1970s.  They get added and afterwards, there's radio silence about the bands while the next set of bands to be added arrives.  So you are as guilty of this top 10 phenomenon as those whom you frequently accuse of it.  You have your priorities and lots of bands don't fit into them.  And this goes for everyone.  Life is short and there's too much music.  You can't force people to pay attention to the bands you would like to see discussion over.  And what will make that even more unlikely is you utilising every opportunity to lambast the board and its collaborators for so called top 10 syndrome.  

Final comment.

I'm not trying to take down the board, and make PA look bad ... I'm only saying that some folks considered "colaaborators" or "admins" do not seem to have a sense of "manners" that I am being asked to uphold ... when they switch the discussion and example, into something else, in order to derail the thread and the comments.

I'm just baffled, in my own way, at how some of these folks do not really know the history of the music, enough to make a call on "progressive" ... because 5 minutes later they are posting about a "commercial/industrial" statement about the whole thing.

In my view, this ART is not being allowed to be who it was for what it was ... IT HAS TO FIT INTO AN IDEA that can only see and appreciate a TOP TEN and a specific set of ideas that did NOT have anything to do with the original music and its artists.

That does not mean, in any way, that some had a hit ... and did really well with it ... but it's sort of like actors on the street ... everyone you hear about or read, there are some 500 others starving and washing dishes somewhere ... and ... ohh too bad ... their music is no good anyway! (Those 500 couldn't act 5 lines kinda thing!)

And as the last posted comments say, new bands are being added all the time ... which I appreciate and no, I have not heard most of them, however, I bet that I have checked out more than half of them, since new music, new arts, and different things are a part of my catalog ... not top ten! And we know that those new entries are not top ten ... so why would most folks posting even bother listening to them, specially when their comments are less about new music and its differences (that helped progressive grow!!!), than they are yet another "vote" for that top ten assembly line!

I don't want to see PA gone. But Ii would like to see PA take a stronger stand on PROGRESSIVE MUSIC and help dictate a lot of its definition, instead of WIKI now holding that prestige, because we have not done a whole lot to improve what we have seen, and specially its history ... we still talk about ITCOTCK as an album of songs and hits ... not anything else, and it is not that at all! Even RF stated that it is not "progressive" ... and we don't agree ... and therein lies one of the reasons why I don't like to say one album is and another is not ... to me, the history and its events, are not showing why the music is valuable and important ... we only seem to worry about one smaller thing, at a time when FM Radio in America was wide open, and played so much European stuff and new music, which was closed down within 5 years, when that same FM Radio was bought by commercial/industrial conglomerates, and promptly closed down the avenue of new music and "imports" (in America), thus making it look like for a lot of posts here in America that PROGRESSIVE MUSIC died in the 80's ... duhhhhhh ... the best friend we ever had, was taken away ... that simple, and just like today, it only plays the same stuff in a supposed top list ... that you and I would never EVER believe in ... but we allow it, and think it's cool, because it is "there" and we are not!

This is about a fight for freedom ... in the arts ... and as one of my favorite films ... I call it ... LE PHANTOME DE LA LIBERTE ... as a tribute to one of my favorite films ... that does something with the stories that music, and specially rock music, is afraid to do ... bring it alive! We only hear the lyrics ... not anything else, it seems.

With much love and care ... continue your comments, and let someone else show you what art isn't when it is just a mechanical exercise! 

I recall a long suffering publisher's reply to Gertrude Stein's latest droning, nearly unintelligible stream-of-consciousness manuscript.  I believe this rejection notice would serve well in this case, even if it is not entirely within context:

If it is, it shouldn't be.