Alternatives to Discussions Boiling Down to Rankings/Ratings

"Is this album a 10?" "Which of these is better?" "How would you rank X's discography?"

BORING. It's amazing that so much online discussion about music has so little discussion about, you know, music.

Humble suggestions from me, the self-appointed Pope of online music discussions:

-Appreciations of different elements/styles on various records

-Interpretations of lyrics, metaphors, themes

-What does [album] say about society?

-Isn't it interesting the way this artist evolved in this trajectory and this stylistic change?

-The mixing... ooh, the mixing!

-Stylistic differences in playing when one band member was replaced with another

-This is a cover song. Instead of tediously dissecting precisely how much worse it is than the original version, why don't we discuss the unique elements that the artist covering the song brought to the composition, and why that's interesting? Whether or not I prefer it to the original, isn't the cover artist's perspective on the song a unique interpretation?

-Here's an album that a lot of people don't like, but actually I appreciate this one track because [reasons]!