Yes, I noticed. I'm not trying to keep the last.fm links up but aren't band's samples the most important rather than the radios?

User without_god keeps adding pointless definitions of band's names to the additional notes section.

http://metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540289346

http://metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540288259

http://metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540288607

Since pretty much every band that is listed in lastfm also has at least a myspace fan page, I don't see any point in keeping a site that only allows most users to listen to some samples that can be found in another free website.

Can somebody look into what this user is doing: destroyed999. He's updating every band backwards from Z by the looks of it.

I'm almost sure he's adding exact release dates.

You're telling me he's adding the exact release dates for all those bands with Z? Even fucking Zyris? A band that sucks so much that I've never seen anyone ever hear, let alone mention!

That's it. I know this is highly suspicious.

who added this:
http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=247988
looks like fake.

Added by Lokki, ban please.

It looks like he is a band member, check the reports for this band.

I've just dealt with the singles.
Band member or not just have a look at what he added:
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1431 ... treduk.jpg

yeah, I saw that, it looks like he intentionally adds fake releases for his own band.

He's still doing it...

http://metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540289356

I've banned Lokki.


Pointwhoring is when someone is trying to gain more points than he should by doing something against the rules. Without_god certainly isn't pointwhoring, nor breaking any rule.

I do agree that what he's doing does seem a bit pointless, but I guess that other people can find them interesting. It doesn't bother me to have that piece of trivia in the additional notes.

Mods gonna do anything about destroyed999? He got +50 points in 2 days without doing anything significant to the archives. "Adding specific release dates?"

Especially interesting since he just went from the last band in the archives and worked his way up.

Banned (at least for the moment).

Heavy Metal Hunter, indeed. Justice has been served.

I noticed the reviews by user TheBleeder for Darkthrone's "Dark Thrones And Black Flags" and Nocturnal Fear's "Code Of Violence" are taken word for word from the February 2009 and November 2008 issues of Metal Maniacs by reviewer Marty Rytkonen. And while I can't find the issue its in, I recognize the Abominant review he has as well. I'm not sure if its the same guy from Metal maniacs. His reviews don't have a "originally written for Metal Maniacs" tag at the bottom like most do that were written for another source. It doesn't give his name on his profile, either. It could be him, but I'm doubting it. Could a mod contact him and ask about his identity?

Anyone know how to get in touch w/ unholyblack if so shoot me a pm.

I've contacted Marty.

Update: TheBleeder was banned and all his reviews were deleted.

Does anyone know what user smeshuggah is doing on the more "known" metal band pages like Immortal, Bathory, Motorhead, Burzum, etc. He's updating them mighty fast.

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=203
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=75
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=563
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=88
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=263
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=255

He's adding "FaceBook Fans Page" links, completely useless.

Oh I see. Delete?

I've delete King Diamond's link which was invalid. I didn't see that there were a certain amount of pics on those pages. Maybe that's enough to warrant an entry. And it doesn't need registration, of course.

kwellada is adding links to "review@Satan stole my teddybear" on many bands starting with D

ex: http://www.ssmt-reviews.com/artist/dark_s.html

About "smeshuggah": honestly is it useful to add links to Dan Swanö@Facebook on all his band pages??

Another example of useless links

Yeah I noticed that too just now. I've been following him and his addition are useless.

Mods - semshuggah made nearly 30 points just adding "Dan Swano Facebook" links to every listed Swano page.

It would be better to just blacklist those facebook links. I'll check if it's possible.

What is Stormrider doing? Hes updated a lot of bands today and all I can see after checking cached pages is that he is adding fansites.

He's a mod...

I'm going to revisit/correct the title translations for a good amount of Senmuth's songs, so if the band page is frequently updated, it's most likely by me. Just letting you all know so no misunderstanding arises in the process.

At the moment i'm cleansing the archives from dead links and stuff like that therefore my name might appear in alot of changed profiles during the next weeks - so nothing unusual i guess.

^ do you try to archive some (important) ones via the WayBack machine
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

yeah i try to use archive.org whenever the homepage of the band is the only official like given. If there is a link to a myspace profile which is not outdated i mostly don't use archive.org and just delete the link.

Now "smeshuggah" is adding links to Dave Lombardo @ FaceBook & Mike Patton@Facebook on all bands they play in

Those and Gene Hoglan, too.

Is this enough for the mods to unleash banzilla?

Holy hell, he got over 100 points in 2 days just adding facebook links!

Ahhh I gotchya. All I saw was a massive list of B-bands.

user orgh is vandalizing funereus' (mex) page!
he added orgh as alternate name... (which i already deleted cause i didn't know who added it), he also added a link to a porn site to the official links and some more....
http://metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540274157
http://metal-archives.com/userprofile.php?user=orgh

I've noticed that somebody has put in lyrics for Burzum - Demo I, even though the album is completely instrumental. Essentially, the lyric files all read "(Instrumental Version)". This is entirely unnecessary, as it is already specified at the top of the page that all tracks are instrumental.

Banned.