[META] Looking to spur more discussion and discovery here. I want to hear your thoughts.

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Since I have become one of the Moderator's I have heard many complaints about the sub being filled with crap posts, and only popular music.

I want you all to know that I've heard you and I want to do something about it.

On a post today u/Falcon_Kick gave me some good ideas to play around with.

They said:

This community is very passionate about defending their own personal preferences in music, and loves to shit on anyone who disagrees with them. this goes for the people who like the generic stuff you see at festivals and the people who are more niche in their tastes. Basically this leads to a lot of negativity from all sides: the more "popular" music gets a lot of hype in the real world and generally gets a decent amount of upvotes here but the comment section gets really nasty because the fans of less "popular" music get mad at its generic feel.

how would I change it? I can't make people stop being mad at what's "big" in EDM. Hell I'm more a fan of the generic festival EDM myself because it reminds me of the great times I had at those sorts of events.

what I'd do to change this is to put in place certain special days where everyone has to be positive about music posted. I.E. a "New Music Day" or "Music Discovery Friday" sort of a weekly thing where people post their favorite music and explains why they love it. It could bridge the gap between the more casual and hardcore listeners

So here's what I'd like to do about it:

I like the idea of a weekly thread to talk about new music. I created r/letstalkelectronica because I found a disturbing lack of depth here but that hasn't really taken off.

I discovered that if I flaired the discussion posts here they got a lot more attention in the way of upvotes and comments. Maybe every Monday we do something like r/malefashionadvice's WAYWT, like a What Are You Listening To? (which I do on LTE) and then Fridays we do a New Music day.

What do you all think?