Community guidelines

Member lists

• Lists are about music: songs, artists and the countdowns that ranked them. Keep titles and notes on topic.
• No hate, harassment, threats or sexual content, including in titles, notes and profile text.
• No spam or promotion. Links in profiles and descriptions are only available to trusted contributors, and every link carries rel="ugc nofollow".
• Do not post other people’s personal information.
• One account per person. Do not create accounts to boost likes or poll results.

Comments

• Comments are for the song or artist on the page: memories, what a song meant to you, where you heard it, how it ranked. Disagreement is fine; personal attacks are not.
• No hate, harassment, threats, sexual content, spam or promotion, and no one else’s personal information.
• New members’ first comments are checked by a moderator before they appear. After a few approved comments yours are published straight away.
• Links from newer members wait for review, and every link carries rel="ugc nofollow". Don’t post lyrics or other copyrighted text; link to it instead.
• You can edit a comment for a short while after posting and delete it at any time. Use the Report button on any comment that breaks these rules; comments reported by several members go back to the review queue.

Contributing countdowns

• Send only countdowns that a station actually broadcast or published. Never reconstruct a list from memory or fill gaps with guesses.
• Say where the list came from (a recording, a station page, an archived copy, a newspaper) so it can be checked.
• Corrections are welcome anywhere; include a source whenever you can.

Polls

Polls are open to members with a confirmed email address and an account older than the poll’s minimum age. One ballot per person. Ballots that look coordinated or automated are excluded from the count.

What happens when rules are broken

Content can be hidden from search results, removed, or the account restricted or suspended. Moderators can remove comments or stop an account from commenting for a while or for good. Anyone can report a list, profile or comment with the report button on the page. If you think a decision was wrong, contact us.

See also the terms of use, the privacy policy and the copyright policy.