About Creating a Chart
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It's Easy - All You Need is Sites
It's really easy to create a chart on ChartCentral and there is basically no management involved. Sites can signup and participate without you having to do anything. In the future we may add sophisticated management tools but for now you can basically just set and forget. However, for the chart to stay listed and become popular we suggest that you at least have your own site to join the chart or try to contact some suitable sites to get them to join.
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How to Create a Music Chart
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Adding a New Chart to a Category
There are 2 different types of categories on ChartCentral which have different rules and ways of creating charts.
Ordinary Categories - These are for charts devoted to a general topic area. To add your chart to these, click on 'Add new Chart' near 'Get Involved' towards the top of the page. As long as your chart is about something related to the topic area you can add it.
Strict Categories - These are for charts devoted to a specific type of thing. Instead of 'Add new Chart' you will see something like 'Add new Band/Artist'. Using Bands/Artists as an example, the rule about these categories is
- Only charts devoted to a particular Band/Artist may be added.
- Only one chart for each Band/Artist may exist.
If your chart is devoted to the topic in general you must add it to another
category (there may be an appropriate sub-category of this one). If there
is already a chart devoted to the Band/Artist you are intending to
add then all you can do is add your site (if your have one) to that chart.
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Go to the Category and Click on 'Add new Chart/Thing'
Depending on if the category is 'Strict' or not.
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Follow the Instructions to Create the Chart
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Sign up Some Sites and Climb Your Category
It's important to get at least one site signed up pretty soon or your chart will get deleted. Apart from adding your own site you can contact webmasters of other sites to get them to join. One effective way to kick the chart off is to sign appropriate sites up yourself and then email the webmaster to see if they want to put the voting code on their page. Be sure to include their username, password and voting code if you do this.
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Participation Rules
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Chart Topic
Currently, only charts to do with music can be added. This may change in the Future. ChartCentral will not host content of an adult nature, copyright violations, hacking, racism, hate crimes or other illegal activity.
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Cheating
Attempting to exploit or find a way of fooling our system into counting invalid votes is cheating. Whether successful or not, offenders will be barred from participation.
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Categorization
Please respect the 'Strict' Category rule as above. If your chart is devoted to a band/artist (or other thing with appropriate strict category) it must go there. If there is allready a chart about that band/artist (thing), then you can't add another. Your chart will either be moved or deleted if you break this rule.
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Site Signups
Please do not encourage sites to join that you know are likely to break our participation rules for Webmasters. Sites that currently deceive there visitors with blind links or excessive use of popups are not welcome.
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Changes
ChartCentral reserve the right to alter these rules and to change the manner in
which the votes are collated and the manner in which the charts are calculated
at any time without notice. ChartCentral will strive to keep participating
chartmasters informed of any significant changes to the charts system.
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How Votes and Chart Positions are Calculated
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| The following was written for site listings but it generally applies for charts as well. Just as sites are listed in your chart, so your chart is listed in a category. Any differences are noted like this |
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Vote Counting
Votes are collated each week on Wednesday at 9.00pm EDT (East Coast USA Time). They are sorted into groups which our software identifies as being likely to be the same person. The number of groups voting for each site and chart is then counted and added to the database. This means that visitors can only vote 1 time per week for your each site. Although this generally prevents cheating, we also manually check the logs from time to time.
Note: This means that if the same person votes for more than one site in your chart, it only counts as one vote for the chart.
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Chart Positions
Sites within a chart are ranked by the number of unique votes they reveive each week. If any sites have the same number of votes then it comes down to the number of times visitors to those sites have viewed any of the voting graphics. If there is still a tie, the site with the high average number of votes per week goes first. After that, the site which registered first will be listed higher.
Note: The same rules apply except that the number of sites in the chart is the second criteria after votes.
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Category Rankings and Sub Listings
Note: Sub Listings do not apply to some categories.
Often charts are ranked against each other in a category. The same rules apply except that the number of sites in the chart is the second criteria after votes. Usually some sites from that chart will be listed under a sub heading. The sites which get listed are ones with the highest rank that together account for more than a set percentage of the votes. This percentage depends on the ranking of the chart and there is also a limit on absolute number of Sub Listings a chart can have. The specific numbers are
| Rank | Threshold | Max sub listings |
| 1 | 80% | 8 |
| 1-10 | 65% | 6 |
| >10 | 50% | 4 |
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Feedback & Email
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We always welcome feedback from participating webmasters and chartmasters. If you would like to
email us please use this special email address which gets special attention from
us master@chartcentral.com If you
want to give our email address to others please give them our standard address
<charts@chartcentral.com>.
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