aprilla I have a lot of styles, various quality no doubt (I've not listened to them all) so they might be styles I'd submit. Do I need to listen to each before submitting? Run them through the PSR Style Database (excellent program) for certain informations? Determine quality? I wouldn't consider myself a great judge of quality so that puts me off wanting to contribute.
Imagine this was a music recommendation site, and someone asked - should I listen to a song before recommending? And determine if it's any good? I have a long list of song names that I never heard, wouldn't be helpful it i just submitted them all and you try to figure out if they are any good, I'm not a music expert anyway? And then say: by the way, this site has too many songs that I never heard and not interested in whatsoever, why is that? 🙂
The idea is to share styles you enjoy playing, not styles that are collecting dust on your hard drive. If you have a huge folder of styles and play only 3 of them I would hope people share those 3.
Just share with others what you want others to share with you. Do you want others to give you styles they like playing, or random styles they never heard, never tried, and don't know what's inside?
My hope was that if someone shares a style it means they like playing this style and think others will enjoy it as well. No matter if it was made in "one man band" or through other tools, the fact that it is shared should speak for it's quality, backed up by the uploader's reputation. Otherwise we will just turn into another "20,000 styles archive" that nobody knows what it contains and everyone just keeps it on their hard drive just in case.