adaliabooks: Yeah, that's not a bad way of doing things. As you say you're likely to find at least a few artists or songs you like, even if a lot of it might not be to your tastes (or not as good as the list compiler makes out)
omega64: Weird, seems like my initial post has been downrated.
Thread doesn't show when there are new posts anymore. :l
I wonder why.
I've had this happen to a topic I made about game difficulty; the sort of topic that actually got some good discussion.
In other words, that was a topic that:
1. Was a serious topic (not even a joke topic like this one)
2. Was not about any issue that would be controversial (in other words, not about anything that might be considered political), and
3. Was about video games, and was therefore extremely relevant to the site
...and yet it was downrated anyway.
Therefore, I can conclude that some people just downrate topics by certain people without actually looking at them.
(Also, I wish the forum software would be updated to remove this misfeature.)