I've suggested to OurStage that they conduct a survey in at least two genres every month and directly email the results to their artists. The survey would have the voter identify themself as a neutral voter or someone who was encouraged to support at least one particular artist in the genre in which they'd vote. One genre should be one with a large number of contestants and the other should be one with a smaller number. The results would benefit both OurStage and their artists. The benefit to OurStage is that they can know how well artists are drawing supporters to the site. The artist who's trying to evaluate a song can use this to determine if the OurStage results are really a fair estimate of their song's worth. The artist could also determine whether they need to promote Ourstage to their fans more so than what they do in order to get better results.

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