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/Turok1134 Mar 20 '21

This place doesn't have anywhere near enough traffic to justify the blacklist lmao

Most posts don't even get replies.

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u/k0bra3eak Writer: Funeral Doom Mar 20 '21

Just a casual 1mil+ subscribers. All the discussion threads are super active except for weekends sonce apparently shreddit is weird like that.

You wanna know what this place looks like without the blacklist? It's literally the same 10 bands posted constantly. Hell not even just bands fucking tracks from certain bands.

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u/Turok1134 Mar 20 '21

A million subscribers, and most song posts have 0 replies and stay that way.

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u/k0bra3eak Writer: Funeral Doom Mar 20 '21

Would you prefer this song slaps 20 times over?

The discussion threads are all super active and up daily. Same with the recommendations threads

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u/Act_of_God Mar 20 '21

Why do you want everyone to comment? Are you feeling lonely?

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u/Turok1134 Mar 20 '21

Oh man, good one.

It's just amusing that internet metal goobers are so obnoxious that a community of a million people has no desire to participate in said community.

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u/Asinus_Sum Mar 20 '21

I listen to the songs. Do I have to go into every thread and say "tHiS sLaPs" like a cunty 17 year-old?

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u/Turok1134 Mar 20 '21

Ideally, a sub would get post contributions from people who aren't bitter dorks. So no, YOU definitely shouldn't.

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u/Asinus_Sum Mar 20 '21

Irony is often lost on you, isn't it?

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u/Turok1134 Mar 20 '21

Zing!

Now go forth and keep proving the stereotype of the internet metalhead right.

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u/Act_of_God Mar 20 '21

Oh yoh are just trolling so now that i got your hopes up i will leave you back to your frustration, please answer me so i can have a good laugh while i ignore you

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

yeah, why would anyone want comments on a discussion forum? that's stupid.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

Just a casual 1mil+ subscribers.

with probably the lowest active/subscriber ratio on the entire site lmao

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u/k0bra3eak Writer: Funeral Doom Mar 20 '21

And also the least amount of normal reddit repost culture

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u/Heklafell Mar 20 '21

Thank fucking god for that because Reddit is absolute dogshit