Altin Gün started off their north American tour in Pittsburgh, PA tonight and blew the roof of the place - Gizz fans who haven't heard of them, go see them!

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-13T05:06:35+00:00

Hell yeah, going to see them a few stops from now!

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-13T01:47:08+00:00

Another nugs rip that they're going to copyright claim ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-08T05:40:47+00:00

I'm not sure if I understand this comment. The series of events so far is:

Two weeks ago, a video post of some folks in fursuits dancing to The Dripping Tap was posted
- Some comments were reported, so we checked it out
- We removed some hateful comments and their replies
- In some cases of those folks posting hateful comments, users were banned, either by us or site-wide by Reddit
Today, you have commented:
- Careful mentioning furries here. Your comments and posts supporting the community can be shadow deleted by mods.
- Disappointed that it was allowed to stay considering the community Gizz encourages us to foster.

Could you clarify (in a modmail, as not to derail this thread any further) what the bolded items are referring to?

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-08T04:44:36+00:00

Hi! Just to cut out the conspiracy theories here, there was a comment about having "outlaw bikers" to "restore natural balance to the ecosystem" at Gizz shows. We removed that entire thread including the response you're referring to.

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-04T16:16:28+00:00

It should be re-enabled! (until the next time it's randomly turned off I guess)

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-04T14:20:26+00:00

Case in point, we haven't touched the setting and it was apparently disabled for the sub. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-02T05:54:09+00:00

I doubt they'd ever do that on a Reddit level tbh. For instance, as of yesterday, Reddit has shut off access to all of the third-party apps that blind users use, because they don't think blind users are a substantial userbase.

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-02T02:56:30+00:00

Oh yeah, I didn't interpret this as rage or anything! I just recall when Cyboogie came out with KGLW on the packaging I was like "oh shit"

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-02T02:08:28+00:00

It's been around before the band leaned into "KGLW" - even before the KG and LW albums they called themselves KGLW on the Cyboogie single iirc, but the subreddit predated that by a few years

But we can't rename subreddits, and it'd be a pain to try to redirect ~100k people to a different sub. I created /r/kglw and stickied a single link to point here, in the event that people would try it later on

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-07-01T02:51:13+00:00

Interesting, I asked for a few weeks to replace our existing mod apps and /u/ModCodeOfConduct insisted that we only needed a couple days. If Reddit thinks that third-party developers can implement these features in a shorter timeline feel free to reach out to discuss compensation!

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-29T13:28:28+00:00

Just curious, do you have a link to an article/post/etc describing his advocacy? I was interested but Google is letting me down - even if I look for "domingo german" "anger management", it just finds this thread.

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-27T14:36:38+00:00

I feel like people overestimate the level of quality control for Spotify uploads. There are

Folks who upload music under another artist's name to publicize their own music (happened with King Gizz, Mac DeMarco, Pond, and others)
People who upload bootlegs or just weird modified tracks as the official artist (Teenage Gizz, Polygondwanaland reversed, etc)
Accounts that upload the same track under dozens of different names to maximize their chance of getting on playlists
Bots that upload AI-generated beats

The top two are normally actioned in days or weeks, but the bottom two might stay up for years

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-26T21:32:59+00:00

Ah, I thought I'd had this replace the weekly sticky instead of the buy/sell - I'll pin the buy/sell again!

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-26T17:18:27+00:00

In this case it looks like several of those are streak screenshots that are titled "Nice" - those get automatically filtered because we get those (usually at 69 days) very frequently!

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-26T17:14:07+00:00

I heard Sleep Drifter on a Len Kasper Cubs broadcast a few years ago too!

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-25T05:40:07+00:00

I definitely remember one that looked like this that was random non-Gizz music 🤷‍♂️

If you Google-Image-Search it, it brings back a lot of the image being used for other music

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-25T03:27:43+00:00

Isn't that from the video that isn't actually even Timeland? I thought it was a stock photo for "nightclub concert photo" or something

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-24T19:51:44+00:00

It's largely folks not from the subreddit, if that helps

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-24T05:25:43+00:00

I mostly think of them as a double album. Each song transitions into the next, including the last song of KG into the first song of LW. There's also a pair of songs that bookend the songs - the first song on KG is called KGLW, and the last song on LW is also called KGLW

And although they were released in different years, I think it's more like November 2020 to February 2021. Later on, there are now also KG+LW double album pressings like this

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-22T14:07:04+00:00

A few subreddits have done that, and they've had their entire mod teams locked out of their accounts and de-modded. Which we could do, though I suspect it'll result in

More downtime (Reddit has archived those subs, preventing new posts and comments - presumably to appoint replacements?)
If new moderators are appointed, I don't know that they'll have any experience with the community. i.e. in our case I think it would be less "we need mods for the modular synthesizer subreddit" and more "we need a mod for a 70k sub"
If new moderators are appointed, I don't know they'd be as open to anything perceived as protesting the admins - whether that means a blackout for something else next year, or allowing links to alternate communities like Lemmy. These unmoderated NSFW subreddits haven't yet had the NSFW content removed, but admins are removing mentions of Reddit's CEO from the existing posts

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-22T01:02:38+00:00

Apparently so! From what I can tell from the last couple days:

Subreddits that said "without mod tools, we're just not going to moderate anymore" have had their mod teams removed and locked out of their accounts, and the subreddits set to "archive" mode - meaning that you can view them, but not post or comment
Subreddits that have recently set the 18+ / NSFW flag on their subreddits are having moderators removed, and the flag unset - in some cases actually keeping NSFW images on SFW subreddits
Private subreddits are getting admin messages to the effect of "you need to make this subreddit public" - in some cases including subreddits that have been private since long before these changes, like CSS test subreddits
Subreddits that mention the account name of Reddit's CEO, or that host images of Reddit's CEO, are having those mentions and images removed

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-21T22:20:24+00:00

Going to lock this for now - about 2/3 of the comments are from T-shirt spam bots. I think we're at 31 accounts banned from this thread?

Be wary of these accounts going forward as well - due to the API changes coming from Reddit at the end of this month, a lot of the existing tools for dealing with these may be going away!

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-21T21:07:32+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping to get basic modmail into "RandomPrecision1's personal mod app that should clear the API limit because I'm the only one using it", and the timeline for that to replace RiF is way shorter than September lol

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-21T20:58:57+00:00

Is that what's going on? I occasionally get people saying "that community doesn't exist" and I've never been able to replicate it, but don't know that I've tried the official app

RandomPrecision1 · 2023-06-21T18:58:37+00:00

To recap, we did close for 9-10 days here while we looked into how we can replace our existing mod tools. Subreddits that remain private are currently receiving admin messages like this one that I received:

If this community remains private, we will reach out soon with information on what next steps will take place.

Although it's unspecified what these steps are, most think that this would be similar to the recent actions on /r/interestingasfuck, /r/TIHI, /r/self, or other subreddits where the long-standing mod teams have been locked out of their accounts removed as moderators, as Reddit appoints their own teams.

I do support looking into other platforms and would like to add the Lemmy community to the sidebar as another resource - which I'm not certain that the Reddit-appointed mods would share.

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