What the title says. I'm doing research for a thread topic on another board. Basically, do you think Metal-Archives does a good job of keeping the non-metal off of the site?
The topic came up when I was attempting to argue the non-metalness of Avenged Sevenfold (I know, kill me now). I was under the impression that it's a pretty reliable page, because it's a good guarantee that the person making decisions/alterations has at the very least a basic grasp of what metal is and is not. That seeing as how its dominated by metal fans, they would have some degree of knowledge of the genre.
But according to other users in the thread, metal-archives is flawed because it is "comparable to Wikipedia" in that "anybody has access"... and that bands like Avenged Sevenfold are only denied entry because they were deemed too "pussy" or "hated", not because they're actually not metal.
What are your thoughts on this topic?
The topic came up when I was attempting to argue the non-metalness of Avenged Sevenfold (I know, kill me now). I was under the impression that it's a pretty reliable page, because it's a good guarantee that the person making decisions/alterations has at the very least a basic grasp of what metal is and is not. That seeing as how its dominated by metal fans, they would have some degree of knowledge of the genre.
But according to other users in the thread, metal-archives is flawed because it is "comparable to Wikipedia" in that "anybody has access"... and that bands like Avenged Sevenfold are only denied entry because they were deemed too "pussy" or "hated", not because they're actually not metal.
What are your thoughts on this topic?