Thanks for taking the initiative on this project. I really like what you’ve done so far. Especially the Bitwig Video Guide is a valuable resource for me.
I would like a place for people to receive constructive feedback on their creations, but unfortunately, people have a tendency to just post their own tracks without giving feedback themselves. I’ve seen a some systems to mitigate this issue and here’s my suggestion based on what I’ve learned working with them.
The best way to motivate someone to give feedback is to make it a requirement before they are allowed to post their own tracks. Unfortunately, that often leads to lackluster feedback so we need another mechanism to encourage quality.
I suggest a point system where you collect points by providing feedback and you can spend those points to post your own tracks. Each feedback earns you one point and the person receiving the feedback has the opportunity to reward you with additional points (up to a limit). That means the better your feedback, the more points you receive.
It’s also difficult to provide feedback on tracks you don’t understand at all because they are so different from what you like, so I think it’s good to have a wide variety of tracks to choose from. So it should be possible to also earn points from older submissions too, not just the most recent ones.
To avoid spam from someone who collected a ton of points and then posts dozens of tracks at once, there should be a expiration date for points (I suggest three months) and a limit to how many tracks you can post (I suggest one per day).
Of course, I have no idea how difficult this would be to implement on discourse, so it will probably need to be adapted and simplified.
I’d be happy to hear everyone’s thoughts on this.