I occasionally play an online card game called Dominion. However, I spend more time moderating projects for the Dominion community in our Discord channel. You can join with the following links, if you’re interested.

A group of music fans among us have taken on the sizeable task of determining the best songs of each year from 1963 to the present, as well as the years going back to 1925 in five-year blocks. I manage the technical infrastructure of the project. Using Google Forms, participants submit up to 6 songs for each randomly selected year. The songs are seeded according to the order each participant submits them. They are then divided up into a bracket of one-on-one matches. These matches are decided by votes conducted in a dedicated Discord channel. We track a few analytics, such as performance by genre (pulled in using Spotify’s API), genre preference by participant, etc.

The following link is a snapshot of the project that you can peruse as you like.

Music Brackets Demo

Google Forms

Submissions are accepted through Google Forms.

Voting

Votes are conducted using emoji reactions in a Discord channel.

Winners

Users get informal credit for submitting top-performing songs.

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