Splash 10 ch07 About the Charts
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what does this scene consist of? it consists of lots of groups. what do these groups consist of? they consist of members.what do these members do,then? they work and try to do their best on their jobs.why on the earth,do i use the word 'they'? all of us are the members of this scene.so better i use 'we',i think. why do we try to produce some- thing? is it for entertaining our- selves? yes.is it for seeing what can we able to do? yes.is it for fun? yes.is it for seeing if we a- re better or worser than the ot- hers? yes.these questions can be followed with more and more ques- tions.but lets talk about the last one. what is the way of seeing that the place of you in the scene? yes its answer is very simple. it is the charts.as you know,every mag. has charts.some vote-sheets are spreaded and the votes are calcu- lated.the charts are made after calculation.but although there a- re not much changes,the charts differ from mag to mag.i think its cause is that every mag has a dif- ferent reader-status.sometimes there are very big differings.you can see something in top 10 in one mag and not at top 30 in another. now here is an article and sugges- tions written by the freak/rebels about the charts.here is what he says: " i have read the article votes in brutal recall 8 and would like to give following comment. fact is that every magazine publishes its own votesheets and charts, and everybody should know that none of them are really ob- jective.therefore i wonder whether the scene,i.e. we do really want objective and unbiased charts? i for myself,and i am certainly not alone with this request,want to see objective and uncheated charts the idea with the country votes was a first step towards this di- rection.therefore,i have worked o- ut a new suggestion which,however, requires tolerance and cooperation by each group publishing a magazi- ne.i suggest to proceed as follows each group continues to send out its votesheets to its contacts but the voters do not return their votesheets to the respective gro- ups but they send them to a cent- ral place where all the votesheets are collected (somewhere in euro- pe) and this central place is of coz neutral,i.e. it does not par- ticipate in any voting and doesn't publish a mag.this central place evaluates the votesheets and dis- tributes the results to all maga- zines.afterwards,the votesheets will be returned to the individual groups so that they know who has filled out their votesheets,for publication of the adresses,etc. of course, it would also be possible to organize a central place for each individual country like it is for the music charts of the european countries,and a supe- rior place will then publish all euro charts. i really wonder if we all to- gether will be able to achieve so- mething difficult but worthwhile. this would really be a good achie- vement. to program a demo or to crack a program is something which can be achieved by everybody with some efforts. you have read some suggestions about the charts.infact,it is not a bad idea.but my thought is that if something like this is done, then there will be no need to send the results to the magazines.it is better to publish a mag only con- sist of the results.but this mag must have no group.according to me it is nonsense to publish the same results in the magazines as these will be the same-text.this is what i think. you learned what i think? do you want to publish your thoughts too.then send a reaction to us and support this magazine. signed:falcon