Visualization: Recording Date

I'll start right off by expressing my pure hate for how recording dates screw up SHS, at least the visualization. After finding and bringing to the attention of the editors of the demo's release, the versions list for Take the Money and Run now looks absurd.

Take the Money and Run (2017 release) is now at the top over Take the Money and Run (1976 release) and is presumably now on site only because it has been sampled even though the definitive hit recording? Recording dates and later released demos should be in the comments and related dedicated fields and should not effect listing or SHS entry qualification. I suppose the hit version also being the "first release" matters as well, but does that really change things?

Recording dates are nothing more than interesting trivia for some....

That does look very odd...

The same thing happens with Take Good Care of My Baby because Carole King's demo version was released in 1995 - 34 years after the original hit version by Bobby Vee

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The same thing happens with Take Good Care of My Baby because Carole King's demo version was released in 1995 - 34 years after the original hit version by Bobby Vee

Yes, I added some foreshadowing in this horror show in the related submission:

https://secondhandsongs.com/submission/42503

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I'll start right off by expressing my pure hate for how recording dates screw up SHS,

That's really inviting to read the rest...

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I'll start right off by expressing my pure hate for how recording dates screw up SHS,

That's really inviting to read the rest...

Thanks. It's no "Call me Ishmael" or "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", but I try. I would think most readers would ask, what could rouse such passions? I must turn the pages and discover such a bane.

You (on the other hand) seemingly and unsurprisingly take personally a comment actually about a process. It could also just be a way to avoid dealing with an issue to quickly ignore and move on. The avoid and move on is relatively common. I was not planning on revisiting, but since tone, etc. has come up again consider....

"He can also click on VERSIONS."

https://secondhandsongs.com/topic/75595

I had to bite my tongue and wait to calm down prior to responding on that one. Most readers would likely think: This remains confusing. Reported by an experienced contributor, so I'll ask for some clarification. On the other hand, you apparently think: Stupid [American or insert other descriptor here] still hasn't discovered the Versions tab.

First, I find it quite extraordinary that anyone can think that a years active site user didn't know about the Versions tab or that there was a material chance that such a user hadn't already tried it. Second, upon the slim chance of such a user not checking the Versions tab, the reader simply clicking there themselves. Ahh, no need, just conclude stupidity/ignorance, don't bother checking the list, and quickly move on. So much easier.

Yet another discussion that just withers....

I can't recall anyone expressing an opinion of preferring the current visualization (i.e. list order) as it relates to recording dates, but that could be memory bias. Has there been a poll on the matter?