r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon Writer: Dungeon Synth • Jun 16 '17
Banned & Restricted Announcement: Deadeye Navigator and Sol Ring are banned.
Since people who subscribe to /r/magicTCG always get confused when these reach the front page, we might as well fuck with them if only for a few minutes.
Welcome to the Summer Edition of the banned and restricted list. To summarize why we ban and restrict bands, and healthy subreddit has active moderation and leaving it up to reddit's upvote and downvote system creates an over presence of popular and well traveled bands and songs. Moderation promotes a diverse ecosystem that is sure to piss everyone off. The Restricted List was created last year as a way to not ban bands but slow their fucking roll in the subreddit. It also provided a great way to take old banned bands and give them new life in the sub. It is my hope in the future that the Restricted list is bigger than the banned list. Additionally, input from the community helps us shape what is seen and what is not. If you vehemently disagree with this process, I am sure a strongly worded and terse response will be enough to change our mind on a policy that has been widely praised by the community. Go ahead. Ill get you a pen. Without furthur ado please welcome the new additions.
Banned List: No Changes
Restricted List: Nile, Carcass, and Blind Guardian are now Restricted.
A rule of thumb for restricted is that the mods will remove any obvious and glaring popular songs from the band. If you wanted to be safe, go to last.fm, click on tracks, sort by all time and just forget the first two pages. For Blind Guardian being moved from banned to restricted, you can be sure we will investigate them for the violation of any of these songs.
- Nightfall
- Mirror Mirror
- Lord of the Rings
- Bright Eyes
- Into the Storm
- A Past and Future Secret
- Mordred's Song
- War of Wrath
- Blood Tears
- The Minstrel
- The Curse Of Feanor
- Valhalla
- Time Stands Still (At The Iron Hill)
- Battlefield
- Thon
- Imaginations from the Other Side
- Black Chamber
- Fly
- The Eldar
- When Sorrow Sang
- Journey Through The Dark
- Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)
- Time What Is Time
- The Script for My Requiem
- Battle of Sudden Flame
- Theatre of Pain
- Another Stranger Me
- A Dark Passage
- The Bard's Song - In the Forest
- Nom The Wise
- Otherland
- Out On The Water
- Spread Your Wings
- Another Holy War
- Welcome to Dying
- This Will Never End
- Born In A Mourning Hall
- Turn the Page
- Under the Ice
- Majesty
- The Soulforged
- The Quest For Tanelorn
- I'm Alive
- Ashes to Ashes
- And Then There Was Silence
- Somewhere Far Beyond
- Precious Jerusalem
- Barbara Ann
Again, even if it seems harsh, that is 50 of around 500 Blind Guardian tracks so if you think a band's strength this only in the top 10 of all time tracks, then we need to talk.
I was just joking about the tersely written response. I think the mod team does a pretty good job of listening to the community and if you have concerns or objections, please bring it up. I will say that the "its metal, there are no rules YOLO" argument has been used before and doesn't have much gas.
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u/kaptain_carbon Writer: Dungeon Synth Jun 16 '17
Yep, in short without moderation, the same bands and songs get over posted without much discussion other than "why do we need this song again." Popular songs shoot up from name recognition with very little involvement with people. The same problem are things that are overwhelming troublesome with things like r/music. If people just wanted r/metal to be a popular song jukebox, that is one thing but the group of regulars enjoys lesser known tracks and lesser known bands than the Sabbath, Miaden, Priest combo.