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I don't know. But I have no problem with people knowing I reported them being off topic or violating copyrights. A fact is a fact. Now I am sure that some people don't really understand the genres and may falsely report something, or they simply may not like something and report it. For example, certain genres often include profanity (Gangsta Rap for example) and it would be pointless to report that. I think a way to solve this issue in general is to have a standard that it has to be radio friendly. If you don't have that standard, then I can't see how you can reasonably exclude songs for profanity. Frankly. some songs use it well.. others don't. Let's not get into musical censorship.

The genre thing is more straight forward. Every type of song should have a home in a genre and right now they don't quite have enought to cover everything. In those cases, they have no choice but to be very broad in their definition and tolerance. I listened to the Top 10 Pop songs... 7 of the songs are pretty decent, but only 2 of them really qualify as "Pop" as we would define it. Most were some variation of Rock.

I called Daniel about another issue earlier but he's likely swamped with it being a Monday. He's usually in meetings all day and it often takes us a week to connect via phone because one of us is nearly always in a conference call or some meeting.

I think if you're making a solid judgement, then I am not sure what you have to worry about in reporting something. Often folks simply aren't educated in what is what and it may actually help them define their music. Musicians are nearly ALWAYS horrible at choosing what "genre" their music fits into. That's why we don't let artists choose in our awards.

Brian