I'm off 2 minds, I love to see what others are listening to, be it Tom, Jerome, Bill and others. But it is odd when all the slots are filled on the 1st page by 1 person.
Maybe folks posting multiples could list them in one post, minus album covers, or just your 1 fav. cover, in 1 post.
Just thinking out loud here.
Nobody is really right or wrong here, but here was my thinking:
1) I find having the cover art in the post very valuable because it really tends to be a memory jogger when going through the racks at the your favorite record emporium. Many times I have been flipping through the stock and a cover has caught my eye that I recognized as something that was posted on AN that OI might want tol grab. FOr some reason at least for me, the cover art seems to stick with me better than a list of Artists/Titles.
2) That said, if a post contains several albums and somebody hits the quote hotspot to leave a reply comment, the entire multi album post gets replicated, clogging up the thread (I guess people could always edit out the information about the albums they are not commenting on, but in my experience this does not happen all that often.)
3) While I see what Chris' is saying, it never really appeared to me as a probblem since when I sign onto Nervosa I end up scanning down the home page abd clicking on all the "new" flags as I go so by the time I get to the list at the bottom of the page I have already viewed everthing that is on the list. But I can understand how this might be an issue for people who go to the list first.
4) This also may be a self healing issue. With all of the "activity" that was going on in m y house over the last few months I reallyh did not have trhe time or energy to buy, listen and post. (Listening was my therapy and heaven forbid I stop shopping
, so the posting fell mby the wayside. ) But during that time I found quite a few good things that I wanted to share info about , so I put the new aquistions aside until I had the time to write them up. Well as of last night I was pretty much all caught up and things have setlled down to the point where I should now be able to for the most part get my listening posts up in real time.
This was just my thoughts on why I was doing things the way I did, it is not in any way meant to imply that this is the right or only way to do it. If the group wants to come up with another set of posting gudelines or standards I would be more than happy to go along. Any ideas are welcome.