Using Description in order to game the system into thinking a score is relevant

• Apr 27, 2019 - 04:36

Hello everyone. I have been recently (and recently I mean past 3 months) been searching for random scores for stuff and I come across the same few scores for everything I search for.
For example take Jaden Yang https://musescore.com/user/31227325. In his description for any song he posts, he will put the top 500 pop songs whenever he posts it, top 100 classical(?) songs, Pewdiepie's Wikipedia page, top 145 video game themes(?), the script for a spiderman movie, the wikipedia page for trolling, the Legend of Zelda, every instrument with a soundfile in musescore.
Now not only is this giving him an advantage in terms of views, but the more annoying thing is that his songs come up for everything I ever search for. It's bogging down the search results, and since the description is so long it's nearly impossible to scroll down to the next song on the list. When your description is 52,827 words, it makes it pretty likely that nearly anything you search is going to be in that description.
The inherent problem here is that if this isn't stopped, then everyone is going to do it and eventually Musescore is going to be unusable. And I can't even make it where I don't see his scores anymore. I blocked him already, but nothing happened.
Is there any way that we can get around this without having to get in contact with a dev and trying to prevent this?

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• May 20, 2019 - 08:59

This is the reply I got:
Hello Crypticbread2,

Thanks for reaching out to us.
Please, repost your message in the Discussion group "Improving MuseScore" on musescore.com

Best wishes,
MuseScore support

To which my reply was:
I already did. Like a week ago. Don’t really think anything is going to become of it. A couple other people said they had the same issue, and then someone said I should report it here. And in fact the user breaks rule 5.1 in two ways, by making the description massively long, it turns me off from using musescore because it’s physically incapacitating me from using the search function, and he’s copied whole Wikipedia articles which breaks their copyright rules (it’s a fairly complicated aspect for “mirrors and forks” for Wikipedia) therefore violating US law, although I technically don’t represent Wikipedia, so I don’t think I have the ability to report it to your copyright enforcer.

I don’t believe that anything is going to become of this, and to be honest, I think that’s kinda sad. It’s an obvious exploitation, and it’s not gonna be stopped. What would stop me from doing the same thing as him? Then the whole site is broken because we’re all gaming the system with broken descriptions. It’s just sad.

No response.

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• May 20, 2019 - 09:31

No, musescore.org is **not'' the forume for musescore.com, musescore.org is about the MuseScore program, plugins, documentation and user support. musescore.com is about sharing scores and the mobile apps.
There's indeed no forums on musescore.com, but there's groups for discussing issues , here the most relevant one would be https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/ as you had been told already

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