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Well, no!

Also, calling Lana a legend…now, c’mon now!

Don’t even have to think for a second about choosing Lana

Oh, I'm sure!

Gonna have to hard disagree with that. All of their albums have multiple tracks beyond the singles that I still use.

Everyone already bought the albums

The way I'm still bopping to this song nearly a year later. Talent really won!

With that big cross on his chest, I don’t think he’s coming for you unless there’s a gay bashing involved.

They literally changed the rules so they could give the award to Ella Langley.

Just a teensy bit of relevant context missing in that thread title. But don’t worry, I added it for you. I’m sure it was just an oversight.

Not you all in here just lying that Guts isn’t good for some reason

Snubbing “The Cure” isn’t baffling! Not even craft nominations?

To Miley’s credit, “Flowers” winning ROTY showed that she had successfully transitioned to being a credible adult pop star. Some artists never followed up their Grammy wins later in their careers.

SOTY won

Of note to LOAP!

Oh, I’ve never heard it called a rankdown before. I would say keep that in base. Go and ahead launch. I don’t think we’re likely to get overrun with a bunch of similar threads at once.

What is a rankdown?

Oh, this eats so hard! “Lullaby” for a new generation.

@Graffiti, we heard your concerns and we made changes to address them. Enough with the passive aggression.

I am entirely in favor of shorter rates! Always have been. Bring back the days when we pitted three albums against each other or several artists with a handful of singles each. There’s no rule that dictates a rate needs to be long.

Rarely have I ever seen an OP score so many thumbs down

I appreciate your thoughtful feedback. Some of this will be taken into consideration, but it sounds like you fundamentally disagree with the moderation of rates and that’s just not going to change. We believe it’s best for the forum experience. The vast majority of rate ideas do get approved (basically unless there’s a conflict with something that’s already been done), so if you have a rate you want to host and didn’t get the change, please reup the request. Perhaps it was just an oversight.

I think there’s some general frustration that everyone can’t just launch whatever rate they want whenever they want. I realize that it may be annoying to have to wait for a turn and disappointing when an idea gets rejected, but we are going to maintain guardrails around this process for the sake of the forum and the rate experience. I added an intro to the thread with more explanation. If there are other constructive suggestions about the process, I welcome the feedback, but if it’s going to be more “I don’t like this, you fix it” complaining, that’s not helpful.

I feel that way about several of the selections

So this was me engaging you as a community member and asking how it could be done better. If you’ve got suggestions, this is your opportunity.