Probably the most shocking thing I found was that they think the ONLY way to make things fun on a music forum is by either trolling or shading someone or post sexually explicit content.
My main issue was that it was so much change and restriction very quickly. It felt oppressive. But whatever I'll get over it. I don't use blogs anyway.
Instead of making these lame ass rules, y'all should work to make the site stop lagging every single 2:00PM and 3:00PM Gosh. Everytime I tried to post something, it's gone because the server didn't load.
Instead of making these lame ass rules, y'all should work to make the site stop lagging every single 2:00PM and 3:00PM Gosh. Everytime I tried to post something, it's gone because the server didn't load.
If I do say so myself, I don't mind the blog change one bit. Not that I've never participated in the not safe for work talk or anything of the sort there, but like many others have said, if you didn't like it you just didn't click on it. However, I'm positive the changes weren't put in place just because of the dirty talk but because of how bad things got out of hand there. The fleet blog was genius, the expose blogs were great because those were well done. Now we just have an influx of newbie members impulsively creating try hard blogs just for kii's and shock value. It's a literal landfill over there. No ****ing quality. Good riddance. Plus, I miss being able to blog about mundane things and sunshine! Sorry not sorry.
But now see, the avatar thing I'm so-so about. We have like what? 20 mods now? So with the new moderated "case by case" basis, I'm sure if one would have to wonder if their avatar is against the rules, it's probably a no go since more than likely one of the 26 moderators wouldn't be here for it. And if this is the case, I want Gaga's white lily ass GONE now that I had to remove my Nicki stripper avi. No bias, please, idgaf if it's your fave's latest single. Please remove Monster's avatar, I'm offended.
@Kitt: we only have like 13 active mods or something. The DWUW avatars are not allowed anymore. We're gonna work on finding all the explicit avatars in the next few days. Anyone with a questionable avatar should definitely be brought up in HQ along with a link to their profile. The "case by case" thing isn't meant for us to randomly decide. It just means that we can't give a universal rule like "no avatars from x video."
I swear, it's not as bad as people are acting. Most users won't even be affected by it.
Are some of you seriously comparing us to genocidal dictators because you can't have **** in your avatars?
You guys, this is how organizations in the real world work. Management decides upon the direction they want to take things in and the rest of the organization either works to help make that vision a reality or they move on.
I'm glad to know that so many of you feel passionately enough about ATRL to have strong opinions on this change. That's what makes the site so wonderful: the dedicated and engaged community. But the level of discourse has dropped precipitously in recent years to the point where the owners feel it is hurting the site.
These changes are not meant to censor your expression. We're trying to refocus ATRL back on its core function of music and pop culture discussion. If you joined the site for other reasons and feel it is no longer meeting your expectations, then I completely respect your right to leave. But I also hope you can stick around and enjoy yourself just as much when the forum is centered around activity than we can all appreciate and engage in.