PA Top 250 list
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Topic: PA Top 250 list
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Subject: PA Top 250 list
Date Posted: June 15 2014 at 16:52
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I guess this is the appropriate place for this inquiry Has it ever been discussed if PA should expand their top 250 albums to a larger list? I for one would love to see it expanded to be the top 1000 albums at least Just wondrin' |
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 15 2014 at 18:17
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yeah, i think top 500 should be better imo, however, there might be some other discussion(s) about this somewhere else i believe. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 15 2014 at 18:29
Have another guess.  ------------- What? |
siLLy puPPy wrote:Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 15 2014 at 18:36
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...anyway. http://web.archive.org/web/20051210211320/www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?MostPopular=500" rel="nofollow - Many moons ago the search algorithm used to be able to show the top 500 . I suspect that this put a lot of extra demand on the Servers and was detrimental to site performance (erm, in English: it was too slow). ------------- What? |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 15 2014 at 22:27
| Interesting to see the positions on that list. Obviously an attempt from the sites infancy |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 00:59
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I don't think it's appropriate to have a top 1000 (or 500) and this is the reason http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=&salbumtypes=1&syears=&scountries=&sminratings=1000&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=0&smaxresults=100&x=91&y=7#list" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=&salbumtypes=1&syears=&scountries=&sminratings=1000&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=0&smaxresults=100&x=91&y=7#list
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 10:21
| Why does that make it inappropriate? |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 12:42
I have no idea but it would be a very long web page.
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Posted By: m2thek
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 14:49
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He's saying that only 75ish albums have over 1000 ratings. Extrapolating from this, pushing the list to 500 would probably give pretty bad results as the albums on the back half wouldn't have many ratings and would probably be pointless to list. ------------- Matt |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 15:55
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: June 16 2014 at 18:17
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It doesn't seem to affect the http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=&salbumtypes=1&syears=&scountries=&sminratings=3&smaxratings=20&sminavgratings=4&smaxresults=100&x=93&y=9#list" rel="nofollow - TOP 100 Little Known But Highly Rated Studio Albums of All Time All have very few ratings. Same goes when filtering for subgenres As far as loading the entire page and it not happening fast enough, simply break each page into 100 albums each None of this is so serious that the results are a matter of life and death, i just like to get a general view. It's all subjective anyway |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 00:44
that is truly obscure  BTW how do you get the link to come up like that?(ie with a description and not the link address). I have never been able to work this out.Ta.
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: August 29 2014 at 11:29
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I would like to see a top 1000 list but I'm guessing it would become pretty inaccurate towards the end. Glad to see a thread for it though. One thing I've always wanted to see just out of curiosity is a bottom 100 list. Anyone have any idea what we be number 1 on that (In The Hot Seat maybe)? Just a thought
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Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: August 29 2014 at 11:50
Probably Metallica's St. Anger. ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 29 2014 at 12:17
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16857" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16857 Some well written reviews on that page, too. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: August 29 2014 at 14:49
Think I heard that a while back, it's pretty horrendous  The worst rating I've found is probably this TD album of covers. Really out of character... http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38428" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=38428
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Posted By: JCDenton
Date Posted: August 30 2014 at 11:29
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The posts saying that the rankings would be less meaningful toward the end of a top 500 are right. Even just under the top 100, I recently found Unfolded Like Staircase sitting at #109. I gave it a five-star review, and it instantly rose up to #102. The album does only have 292 ratings currently, but this evidence is enough to show how the rankings 251-500 might not be so meaningful. You'll rate an album, and its ranking will change by no less than thirty spots. ------------- "We have grown, but there is still much to be done. Many that live in darkness that must be shown the way, for it is the dawning of a new day." |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: August 30 2014 at 15:14
| When Progarchives first started out there was a top 500. Then at some point maybe around 2006 or so it got condensed to a top 250. I vote for a top 500 again also. :) |