Since Nobody Else Asked Ron, I Will...

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Thursday May 12, 2005

Hey Ron, how does the new Rockpage Band voting system work on the front page? One vote per day, it looks like? Just curious.

Post by **Ron** » Thursday May 12, 2005

It really isn't a voting system. It was put into place to allow bands to see how much exposure they are getting, but people instead turn it into a contest that benefits no one. It hurts the site because of extra bandwidth, processor time-slice usage and extra database accesses, in addition to the artificially inflated band page stats.

It will all be history in the next version of the site, which will have no counters... Zero, zilch, nada, nunca mas.

DMFJ03 · Post by **DMFJ03** » Thursday May 12, 2005

Where were you when Beyond Reason was #1 in April?!?

We did that in April on purpose. We did it as a joke, and to show that even simple old classic rock bands like us can do it to. This month has nothing to do with our own influence. We sent out one newsletter at the begining of the month asking our fans to hit it, but even that isn't a sure bet.

We had our laugh - who's next?

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Thursday May 12, 2005

I always considered a marketing tool, not a contest ... you know, keep the name prominent.

r:>)

DMFJ03 · Post by **DMFJ03** » Thursday May 12, 2005

I use our "Upcoming Shows" threads for marketing tools. I figured, the more bizzar we are...someone is bound to show up just to see if we are, in fact, that messed up.

And as my signature suggests, "Yes, we are that perverted."

byndrsn · Post by **byndrsn** » Thursday May 12, 2005

DMFJ03 wrote:I use our "Upcoming Shows" threads for marketing tools. I figured, the more bizzar we are...someone is bound to show up just to see if we are, in fact, that messed up.

And as my signature suggests, "Yes, we are that perverted."

HEY NOW!! Speak for yourself!! Don't lump us all into this perverted stereotype....

oh hell, who am I trying to kid - the older I get, the worse the perversions seem to get.

DMFJ03 · Post by **DMFJ03** » Thursday May 12, 2005

I rest my case.

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Thursday May 12, 2005

That sounds good, Ron. Will we be able to keep the post counts, at least? Or are you going to reset all that data? I wanna get to platinum level.

Post by **Ron** » Thursday May 12, 2005

Actually I can keep the hit count for band pages intact, just only visible to the page's "owner". That way there will still be a way to track your actual page count, but there will be no real reason to try and artificially bump it.

The post counts will be maintained.

red · Post by **red** » Friday May 13, 2005

DMFJ03 wrote:

We had our laugh - who's next?

ME!

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Friday May 13, 2005

What bothers me is an out-of-town outfit named Time Has Come, who updates their band page every day to get people to hit their page. They make no changes or adds, just hit update so you wonder what they have new. I fell for it the first week or so, proving that I really do support bands' pages, but that's ridiculous.---->JMS

PanzerFaust · Post by **PanzerFaust** » Friday May 13, 2005

Aww C'mon Ron keep the counters !!

Inflated or not it's cool to see what bands get their fans etc. to check out Rockpage and which bands come here, make a site and never think of RP again.
Don't become "the man" keeping a band down!! haha....

If you do Jake and I will come to your job for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day!! (Blues Brothers Plug)

Laterz, Tood

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Friday May 13, 2005

songsmith wrote:What bothers me is an out-of-town outfit named Time Has Come, who updates their band page every day to get people to hit their page. They make no changes or adds, just hit update so you wonder what they have new. I fell for it the first week or so, proving that I really do support bands' pages, but that's ridiculous.---->JMS

There are some out of state bands on the list, which is cool because they are from places in close proximity like New York and Ohio (and John from Florida of course

). But I once came across a band that was from Texas. I mean what is a band from Texas doing on a PA music site?

byndrsn · Post by **byndrsn** » Friday May 13, 2005

bassist_25 wrote:
songsmith wrote:What bothers me is an out-of-town outfit named Time Has Come, who updates their band page every day to get people to hit their page. They make no changes or adds, just hit update so you wonder what they have new. I fell for it the first week or so, proving that I really do support bands' pages, but that's ridiculous.---->JMS
There are some out of state bands on the list, which is cool because they are from places in close proximity like New York and Ohio (and John from Florida of course ). But I once came across a band that was from Texas. I mean what is a band from Texas doing on a PA music site?

It is because we are such a cool group of people - right?

red · Post by **red** » Friday May 13, 2005

The only reason we are in the top 10 is because we have this site linked to our web site for our schedule. People have commented to us they liked that because they can discover new bands that way!

esa · Post by **esa** » Friday May 13, 2005

Ron wrote: The post counts will be maintained.

Oh thank God! Had me worried for a minute there that my hard worked rambling was going to go buh-byes.

byndrsn · Post by **byndrsn** » Friday May 13, 2005

red wrote:The only reason we are in the top 10 is because we have this site linked to our web site for our schedule. People have commented to us they liked that because they can discover new bands that way!

Yeah, I saw that when I was on your website. I thought that was a good idea so that you don't need to enter your schedule information in two different places.

I'm not sure why we are in the top again this month. I know we had some fun trying to see how far we could get last month, but I haven't been doing that this month.

DMFJ03 · Post by **DMFJ03** » Friday May 13, 2005

For some odd reason, some people just might actually like us.

esa · Post by **esa** » Friday May 13, 2005

Nah.. it's just a glitch in the Matrix...

Post by **Ron** » Friday May 13, 2005

red wrote:The only reason we are in the top 10 is because we have this site linked to our web site for our schedule. People have commented to us they liked that because they can discover new bands that way!

You can also just view your schedule if you want. The link is in the format
http://rockpage.net/bands/schedule.php? ... jonnydeath Any band can do this, you just have to change the last part to your band's name in all lowercase without any punctuation, spaces or extended characters.

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Friday May 13, 2005

We did this a while ago and it works great.

r:>)

the herald · Post by **the herald** » Wednesday May 18, 2005

i brought that topic up a long time ago, and got my ass chewed out by questionig how these bands that werent very busy or very popular were getting so many hits, they denied refreshing the browser by all band members every hour which ive tried and it works but hey whatever floats the boat......too bad some got carried away with like 2000 hits a month....the ol rotten apple theory....for those of you who made it to the top ten without any self refreshing........Rock On

the herald · Post by **the herald** » Wednesday May 18, 2005

red wrote:The only reason we are in the top 10 is because we have this site linked to our web site for our schedule. People have commented to us they liked that because they can discover new bands that way!

You forgot to mention that you guys are some of the most passionate,raw kick ass live bands, that dont follow the othersthat ive seen in a long time, you guys are playing what you love to play and that kicks ass...heeeeeee.....freakin.........muthableepin haaaaaaaaww!! for those of you who havent seen a BJD show......check it out!!!!

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