![]() Via The HypeM Blog: The Debate is getting interesting in there: Both of those technologies aren’t revolutionary. Ultimately HypeM needs to engineer a much better system which artists can incorporate with their social networking promotions & is increasingly difficult to manipulate. Vice versa, some artists work real hard to get on outlets like the HypeM and they are being punished for the ill intentions of some manager, agent or completely unrelated blogger. This is a site which generated a large share of traffic for some hard working blogs and to think some asshole artists screwed it up for them. If artists ask their fanbases to boost them up and hundreds of HypeM accounts are created by fans just to boost up those numbers then who’s fault is it if the site isn’t sticky enough to keep those user accounts active into their service? So what it looks like is a ton of artists have been voted up by users who’s only action was to vote for their favorite artists or song at the bequest of some artists call to action on twitter or facebook. There’s is too much room for error and uncertainty here, and this is a heavy handed way to alienate well-intentioned bloggers or artists from a very important media outlet. Outing artists Scarlett Letter style? God knows who or what entity manipulated their charts in whatever fashion, there could be scrupulous reps, media outlets, ambitious artists or rabid fans? Not exactly fair to paint everyone involved with the same brush, “guilty until proven innocent” banning artists & blogs a like with no prior warning. ![]() Hype Machine has taken steps to make chart manipulation and named the offenders.Ī full list of artists named by Hype Machine for abuse: We’ve locked the accounts we detected as fraudulent and suspended tracking blogs we’ve detected contributing to this." "Because we’ve only recently switched to a chart based on the number of favorites, their efforts were not fruitful, however. "We found several artists and blogs creating fake accounts on the site and favoriting their tracks to get higher visibility in the charts," Hype Machine editors wrote on their blog.
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