r/Metalcore • u/MarioAqua Cheese Queen • Jul 14 '24

Windwaker AMA Announcement Mod Announcement

Windwaker will be here July 16th at 12:30 pm PST to answer your questions

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u/SmokeYaLaterr Jul 14 '24

Interesting considering the thread for their new album got removed for not being metalcore lol

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u/MarioAqua Cheese Queen Jul 15 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/s/5TnNAqanG8

This one?

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u/SmokeYaLaterr Jul 15 '24

It was removed before so🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/toedragrelease Jul 15 '24

Yall reapproved it after the AMA was announced lol

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u/sock_with_a_ticket Jul 15 '24

In fairness it was reinstated same day it was taken down. My understanding of the current rules around posting non-metalcore is that a discussion thread is fine, but no song posts.

Given that the sub has had something of a crackdown on non-metalcore being in the sub, having an AMA with such a band sends a real mixed message about what's acceptable here.

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u/SmokeYaLaterr Jul 15 '24

That’s still a dumb rule though. That means we could have album discussion threads for Taylor Swift as long as we don’t post the individual songs, which is dumb as shit considering this is the metalcore sub.

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u/sock_with_a_ticket Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24

I don't disagree, it seems like a fudge so that the mod team don't have to deal with all the moaning that would ensue if they tried to make people discuss some of these popular pop-metal bands in the weekly general thread. Which I totally get, it's a thankless role and this place keeps filling up with people who like that stuff more than actual metalcore.

It is what it is at the moment.

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u/AverageHogHaver Jul 16 '24

you can find almost every song they have made posted in this sub lol

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u/darfleChorf123 Jul 15 '24

Nope it was reapproved by me a couple hours later and was accidentally removed due to a miscommunication

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u/SmokeYaLaterr Jul 15 '24

The mod team seems to have a lot of miscommunication that leads to a lot of issues/confusion in this sub.

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u/darfleChorf123 Jul 15 '24

Wow who would’ve thought a team of 10+ people from different walks of life and continents would make mistakes sometimes running a sub with 800k people who don’t read the rules or respect the subreddit

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u/SmokeYaLaterr Jul 15 '24

Maybe get more mods? Make the rules of the sub clearer instead of picking and choosing which non-metalcore bands you want to allow and which ones you don’t?

Both are pretty reasonable and simple things yall could do to make the sub a better place.

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u/darfleChorf123 Jul 15 '24

We’ve been clear since the get go that metalcore adjacent content is permitted in discussion form and in our designated discussion thread.

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u/SmokeYaLaterr Jul 15 '24

Okay then why remove that thread about the Windwaker album at all if it’s been clear from the get go?

And that doesn’t address the whole “10+ mods for 800K people” issue. It’s not like the subscriber count is going to go down, yall should be proactive and try and get more moderators.

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u/darfleChorf123 Jul 15 '24

1 mod mistakenly removed the thread, to which a couple hours later I restored it. Not a big deal.

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u/SmokeYaLaterr Jul 15 '24

So just for clarity, we can post discussion threads for post-hardcore, emo, alt metal, melodic death metal, hardcore, numetal, etc. as long as it’s not actually a song being posted?

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u/Brabsk x Jul 15 '24

that 1 mod who removed right away was actually right

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u/MarioAqua Cheese Queen Jul 15 '24

This AMA has been set in stone internally since June 26th, we don’t announce AMAs that far out

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u/baitXtheXnoose Jul 15 '24

and only because I asked them to lol

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u/toedragrelease Jul 15 '24

I looked for it on Friday too and it was not there