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Why shouldn't we be able to Ban users we interact with? in Feedback & Suggestions ·
Gregory Anderson5 said:This is a total joke, "Messages, complaints, feedback, suggestions—whatever you want to call them. How can we make this Reddit better and more civilized?" 🙏

And apparently, if you comment on how the moderators are doing their jobs—unless you're attacking one of them personally—you get a Ban 👍 which is exactly what's about to happen to me

They might as well just come out and say it's a dictatorship here and be done with it.

Look, it’s always been a dictatorship, and honestly, I don’t get why people cling to these weird little delusions like it isn't the case. 😕 I mean, let's be real—at the end of the day, one person (the admin) makes the call, and that's that. If you ask me, that pretty much fits the textbook definition of a dictatorship perfectly. 😁

Whining about a dictatorship doesn't actually move the needle; what actually works is using solid arguments to convince the admin of something.

So, here’s my unsolicited advice: stop spamming the thread, quit the bellyaching about tyranny, and stay away from the insults, because all that does is achieve one thing: the thread gets locked and someone ends up sitting in the ban corner.

There you go, consider this little lesson in Reddit diplomacy my good deed for the day. 😁 👋
Why shouldn't we be able to Ban users we interact with? in Feedback & Suggestions ·
coppernomad44 said:And why wouldn't I? I mean, where else would we go... 😕

Well, look, it’s basically because us mods aren't allowed to jump into public threads to debate how other mods are handling things anyway. If one of us does something, they can explain their reasoning, sure, but if another mod disagrees, that’s a conversation for a private DM or a closed channel. We don't just waltz into someone else's sub-forum to stir the pot here.

As for this specific mess, I actually stepped in to adjust the duration of the Ban just to try and de-escalate things before the whole situation turned into a total dumpster fire. 😁

You laid out the case pretty clearly and made some solid points, so at this stage, there isn't much left to do but wait for an admin to step in and settle the score. Hopefully, that happens sooner rather than later.
Why shouldn't we be able to Ban users we interact with? in Feedback & Suggestions ·
Hey there. 🙂 I’m not looking for any feedback on this, so please don't come at me with questions or expect me to weigh in on the whole situation. 😁

Just a quick heads-up for anyone confused: a Ban lasts for a week, not a month. A month-long suspension is what you get when you're actually getting hit with a permanent red card.
I have no idea where it is in Forum Help! ·
Read this.

Seriously, just go ahead and read the whole thread, because Unknown put a massive amount of work into putting it together, and honestly, it’s getting pretty annoying how people keep dropping the same questions here when they were already answered in that discussion.
How to contact an Admin or Moderator in Feedback & Suggestions ·
Alex Cook said:get in touch with Bellwether

Look, Alex Cook, seriously, quit messing with people here by spreading total nonsense. It’s just not cool to feed the community wrong info like that. 🙂

@ Kate Stewart49: reach out to Admin or the Main Admin. 👍
How to contact an Admin or Moderator in Feedback & Suggestions ·
Kate Stewart49 said:I’ve been firing off emails for three days straight and haven't heard a peep. Now I'm trying to reach out to the moderator
via DM, but all I get is this error message:

"Desiree has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space."

So, what, she's basically untouchable now? Like some kind of digital deity?🙄

🤦 🤣

Wait, why are you even hitting up Desiree with DMs when she hasn't held a mod or admin position for over a year? 😁

Actually, hold on... she didn't bother replying to my DMs back in December 2009 either, so I guess the silence is nothing new. 🤣
What does music mean to you? in Music ·
HOLD UP!

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Listen, this isn't going to turn into yet another endless debate about whether certain bands actually count as "real" music or whatever niche genre they fall into, alright?

What really kills me about this whole thread is the sheer amount of hipster posturing happening here. 🙂 I mean, think about it: if someone spends years posting on a music subforum, if they spend their entire life digging through crates, hunting down obscure indie acts, obsessing over genres, and even putting in the actual sweat equity to play in a band, you’d logically assume that music actually means something to them—you know, like it's a core part of their soul. You'd think they'd be able to actually talk about it without feeling like they're being too earnest or something. But nope, instead, this whole discussion has devolved into—well, at least looking back at the older posts—this weird, quasi-auto-ironic way of acting like they don't care. 🙂 Real classy.
My post got deleted in Feedback & Suggestions ·
Sean Mitchell4 said:🙂 One is an odd number 😉 😁

It’s not some grand committee making these calls, you know. It’s just one single moderator pulling all the strings—and honestly, that guy is a straight-up fascist. 😁

Andrew Mendoza10 I can't even begin to explain how much this whole situation reminds me of that one time I tried to fix my own plumbing in Chicago—you think you have everything under control, you’ve got your tools laid out, you're feeling pretty confident, and then suddenly the entire basement is an indoor swimming pool because you tightened one bolt too hard. It’s that exact kind of chaotic energy we're dealing with here. Honestly, looking at the way things are unfolding, it feels like we're just circling the drain while everyone pretends everything is perfectly fine. You know, like when a major corporation like ExxonMobil announces some massive "restructuring" that's really just a fancy way of saying they're cutting corners to save a buck, and yet people still line up to buy their stock. It’s absurd, really. We see these patterns repeating over and over again, almost like a bad sitcom where the punchline is always the same, and frankly, I’m getting a little tired of the rerun. Everything feels so unnecessarily complicated when the solution should be staring us right in the face, but instead, we get bogged down in all this bureaucratic nonsense that serves absolutely no one. It's just... yeah. It's a mess.
I mean, most people can usually tell when things have gone sideways, right? It’s common sense. But there’s always that one gray area, that one specific situation where nobody can quite agree on what went down. You get one controversial thread posted, everyone starts losing their minds in the comments, and then the mods step in to drop their take on the whole mess.

I mean, do you even have a topic for this? Seriously, I feel like we’re just staring at a blank wall waiting for someone to actually say something worth reading. It’s like sitting in a diner at 3 AM waiting for a conversation to start when everyone else is just staring into their coffee, you know? If we don't get a thread going, we're just shouting into the void, and frankly, my voice is getting tired from all the silence. So, come on, toss something out there—anything. Give us a spark so we aren't just sitting here twiddling our thumbs. So, I’ve been sitting here staring at my inbox, and honestly, I’m just losing my mind over these endless complaints regarding the cardboard shipments. It’s like everyone suddenly became an expert in structural engineering overnight! You know how it goes—you deliver a perfectly fine batch of boxes, and suddenly you’ve got people acting like you sent them nothing but wet tissue paper. They start filing these formal grievances about the quality of the packaging, and frankly, it feels like we're being nitpicked by people who wouldn't know a decent corrugated sheet if it hit them in the face. It’s one thing to have a minor issue with a corner being slightly dented during transit, but now it feels like a full-blown crusade against the very concept of cardboard. If we spent half as much time actually shipping product as we do reading these ridiculous complaints, we’d probably be running the whole damn country by now. Honestly, it's exhausting.

A dedicated thread where we actually sit down and philosophize about the whole "deleting posts" thing? Yeah, I don't see that ever happening, which is probably for the best because we’d all just end up talking in circles until the heat death of the universe. It's like trying to have a deep conversation about the ethics of urban renewal while standing in the middle of a construction zone—too much noise, too much ego, and everyone’s just too busy defending their own little corner of the sidewalk to actually listen. Honestly, if we started debating whether scrubbing our digital footprints is an act of self-preservation or just a cowardly way to dodge accountability, we'd never get anything else done. We'd be stuck in this endless loop of "what if" and "should have," much like those people who spend three hours debating which brand of bottled water tastes most like "purity" when we all know it's just filtered tap water from a municipal plant in Ohio. But hey, since nobody's going to start that existential crisis of a thread, I guess we'll just keep drifting along in this digital void, leaving our old mistakes exactly where they are for everyone to judge later.

I mean, if you really stop to think about it, how many posts like that could we actually be looking at in a single day? I’m talking maybe twenty, maybe thirty if the caffeine kicks in and everyone starts typing at once.

Look, you’re missing at least one zero here. Actually, scratch that—you might be missing two. 😁

It’s honestly wild when a moderator starts acting like they’re running some kind of absolute dictatorship, as if we haven't moved past those old-school authoritarian days. But let's be real—it feels like we're still stuck in that mindset today, doesn't it? It seems like anyone who gets even a tiny shred of authority over a group immediately starts thinking they can play the role of a second Marshall or Jadranka, tossing their weight around like they own the place.

Let’s be real, there’s never actually been any democracy on this forum. The whole system is basically built on the absolute whims of the moderators—and don't even get me started on the admins sitting way above them—who just do whatever they feel like without checking in with anyone else. 🙂
My post got deleted in Feedback & Suggestions ·
Andrew Mendoza10 said:It might sound ridiculous—but I’m being dead serious. A moderator can be a total fascist, they can just plain hate you, or God knows what else—and they can mess with your head whenever they feel like it. All you can really do is throw some salt on their tail.

🤣 🤣

Actually, it’s even worse if you’re actually being serious. 😬 Which means... man, I’m not even going to type out what that implies because I really don't feel like burning through my daily quota of insults just to deal with people on this forum. 😁

Since I clearly have nothing better to do with my life—okay, that's a lie, I do have things to do, I'm just feeling incredibly lazy today 😳—let's dive into this absolutely brilliant little idea of yours.

So, we're talking about a committee with an odd number of members that would be responsible for deciding whether to delete every single individual post and, presumably, hand out bans. Let's follow that logic to its inevitable, chaotic conclusion. 👋

The bare minimum for a committee like that would obviously be three people. That means at least three individuals would need to sit down and debate the merits of every single post. On a site like Reddit, there are roughly 19,000 new posts every single day. 😲

Just how many committees would we need to spin up, and how much of their lives would they have to sacrifice just to decide what stays and what goes? 🍿
Iron Maiden 28.4.2011 - Patriot Movement in Music ·
Jeffrey Moore8 said:I’m actually digging this new album; the production is solid and honestly, it beats out the last one for me—maybe it's just because they threw in those two tracks about ASOIF. 😁

🤔 Man, I was listening so intently to the music that I completely missed that detail entirely. 🙈
Rise Against in Music ·
Kevin Chavez3 said:Should I grab a brand new copy of "Siren Song for the Counterculture," $23? 🙂

Man, you really aren't having much luck with this sale, are you? You actually tried pitching it to me last year right after that InMusic festival. 🤣

The new album is solid, though. 👍 It’s not exactly hardcore punk for Drew—more like pop-punk territory—but honestly, who cares? It’s a good listen. 🙂
Nevermore in Music ·
Chloe Green61 said:right back at ya 🙂

😛

I mean, honestly, what am I even supposed to say? Tell you the show sucked? 😁

Edward Hernandez332 said:Those Psychotic Waltz tracks were absolutely criminal.

Yeah, seriously, those guys looked like they were halfway through a nap right there on stage. How was I supposed to stay awake? 🤷
Nevermore in Music ·
Thaurorod, Mercenary, Psychotic Waltz - 🙂 Honestly, what a total snooze fest. And don't even get me started on the drinks; I couldn't even enjoy a beer because the Budweiser tasted absolutely revolting.

Nevermore 🙏 🙏 🙏 Seriously, thanks a lot for the timing on that, because everything just lined up perfectly and the show was nothing short of legendary. 🙏 The sound quality was spot on, Warrel was in peak vocal form (I mean, seriously, how much power can one guy actually belt out? 🙏), and Loomis was his usual self—surgical precision with that deadpan expression like he’s just casually playing the most difficult riffs ever conceived. 🙏 Dagna 😍

In all honesty, I can't even find the right words to describe how phenomenal that whole experience was. 😁

If you weren't there, you missed out big time for the rest of your life. 😛 Or, well, at least you did if you happen to wander around these parts again next time.

I didn't even catch Symphony X. I was completely wiped out before Nevermore even hit the stage—caught some nasty bug, stayed up until 5 AM, and then still had to drive 93 miles back home, so I just headed out.
Karen Green97 said:and then we've got Cypress Hill hitting the stage too.

Man, this lineup just keeps getting better. 🙂
The bank is taking my entire paycheck... in Banking, Insurance & Loans ·
Danco, did you finally manage to get rid of that damn apartment yet? 🙂

By the way, this is easily one of the most educational threads on this entire forum. Honestly, we should pin this to the top of the board right now.
How do I DM a banned user? in Feedback & Suggestions ·
It’s perfectly logical if you actually think about it for more than two seconds. A ban basically means you can't touch the forum until the timer runs out. And since using private messages is technically part of using the site, why shouldn't they be included in that restriction? I don't see the issue.

Plus, let's be real—some people get banned specifically because of their PM activity anyway, whether it's harassment, insults, or just straight-up spamming. It would make way more sense to strip them of their posting privileges while still letting them send or receive messages if they really need to. 🤦
Nevermore in Music ·
Edward Hernandez332 said:It wouldn't be right if they weren't the last ones on stage, would it?

Look, Symphony X and Nevermore are both headlining this thing, and from everything I’ve been reading about their previous tours, Nevermore always takes that final slot to close out the night. 🤷
Nevermore in Music ·
Chloe Green61 said:I'll just give you my reservation instead 😢

Look, I snagged my ticket ages ago. 😁

Honestly, I should've probably banned you a few days back. In RL, you would've actually gone out and scraped the cash together by now, but instead, you're just sitting here whining all over the forum. 😛
Metallica in Music ·
But let’s be real, they aren't going to be coming anywhere near us on this tour. 😢 It's just a bunch of stops in Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Finland, and Spain. Honestly, blah.
Nevermore in Music ·
briskcrane52 said:For anyone planning to show up, my best advice is to grab your tickets here because you'll snag a better deal. 😉

$25? Tickets at the Zion Madison Square Garden are like $30 😠.

Edward Hernandez332 said:Psychotic Waltz, Symphony X, Nevermore and Mercenary 👋
It’s been way too long since I’ve hit a live show, so honestly, the hype is starting to kick in 😁

I’m actually low-key terrified I’m going to pass out from boredom or get too hammered while waiting for Nevermore to take the stage. 😁 I’m just not really feeling the rest of this lineup. 🤷

Chloe Green61 said:happy birthday, warrel dane 🙂 🙂

I already sent him my well-wishes in the place where he’s actually going to see them. 🥳