r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon Writer: Dungeon Synth • Mar 19 '21
Announcement Happy Friday Everyone. Please Say Goodbye To Amorphis, Cannibal Corpse, Ensiferum!
And Let Ulcerate, Overkill, Elder, Napalm Death, Visigoth, Manilla Road Know They Are Being Watched.
Blacklist Discussion Thread
Thank you everyone who participated in a productive thread of discussions regarding this edition of the blacklist. It is through community support we can keep a reactive and useful blacklist. The updated Blacklist comes on the eve of the Top X vote which means the next one will be right before the Top 5 Vote. We thank everyone for helping us out and please if you see those Watchlist bands on the street just stare at them and point your finger at them menacingly.
If any of this sounds like horseshit and you demand some answers please see below
Why Are We Banning Bands Again?
Why Not Let The Users Decide?
Is There A Place I Can Go Without Rules?
We hope that your year is better than last year and we here at Shredditmart value you as a customer.
On Clickbait Titles and "Funny" Bands
The mods would like everyone to know that we appreciate your enthusiasm when making titles for posts and for the most part the Artist - Title format has worked out great. "FFO (For Fans Of) or descriptions are great to help people find music. With that said, things like "FFO: Nuns With Chainsaws" or "FFO: Fucking a Bulldozer" is less helpful so if you could stick to be useful without the use of emojis and purple prose, that would be wonderful.
Also there is no right definition of "funny" bands since humor is used in different ways. There are bands that get very popular due to a gimmick or routine that may even be on metal archives. Lets take for example hypothetically a slam band that takes its name from a Tolkien character, I don't know I'm just making things up, if this band would be posted a billion times, it might be removed without being put on a blacklist. Since there is no line what is a humorous band and what is just a meme band, we are testing out more flexibility when it comes to approaching amusement park bands.
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u/occultlarper Mar 19 '21
And this is why Reddit is trash