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raspberrysoda
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:37 pm 
 

Earthcubed wrote:


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Erosion of Humanity
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 6:51 pm 
 

MetalCuresHeadaches wrote:
Has it been long enough for us to ask what happened with Emptiness Cycle? His bizarrely intricate knowledge of obscure NS bands was always intriguing to me, and it's noticeably lacking now that he's been booted.


He did some really awful and disrespectful things and got caught lying to users and staff alike. That should suffice.
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Midnightwards666
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:49 am 
 

EzraBlumenfeld wrote:
What accesses does a banned user retain? I know they can't modify any data but they can submit reports. Can they still modify their collections and profiles, or delete reviews they had previously submitted?

Admins temporarily ban users on request, so you can find out. If a user is busy outside of MA but still visiting out of addiction and losing time, they can ask to be banned. There is even one staffer who I once saw do this a long time ago, when he wasn't a staffer. He got all his points back when he was unbanned.
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Sweetie
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 1:00 pm 
 

So, regarding links in reviews. Anything published from Indy Metal Vault (or the very occasional Antichrist) I always use the <a> thing, but you can't actually click the link, however it highlights it (see my Serpent's Kiss review for an example). Am I doing something wrong, or is that correct, and it just means you're supposed to copy and paste it in a new tab?
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PaganiusI
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:48 pm 
 

SweetLeaf95 wrote:
So, regarding links in reviews. Anything published from Indy Metal Vault (or the very occasional Antichrist) I always use the <a> thing, but you can't actually click the link, however it highlights it (see my Serpent's Kiss review for an example). Am I doing something wrong, or is that correct, and it just means you're supposed to copy and paste it in a new tab?

Fixed the link in your latest review. I think you can check the change out in the "edit" tab if my explanation isn't clear. <a> is a rather general term and actually not the complete thing. If you want a completely working link, you gotta add <a href="link">name of the link</a>.
In order to make the link pop up in a separate tab (which is not a bad thing), you have to add <a href="link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Name of link </a>
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Sweetie
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:46 pm 
 

Oh wow then a lot of mine are done wrong but whatever haha. Thanks!
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Antioch
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:02 pm 
 

HouseSpiders wrote:
Admins temporarily ban users on request, so you can find out. If a user is busy outside of MA but still visiting out of addiction and losing time, they can ask to be banned. There is even one staffer who I once saw do this a long time ago, when he wasn't a staffer. He got all his points back when he was unbanned.

First time I've heard this, HS. You live and learn.
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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:27 am 
 

Yeah, I mean technically, but I don't think I've ever seen it happen except for that one special case HS mentioned.
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Antioch
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:04 am 
 

Is it too soon to ask what happened to Defreasis? He wasn't proven guilty, was he? I actually trusted the guy. :/
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~Guest 368187
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:20 am 
 

Antioch wrote:
Is it too soon to ask what happened to Defreasis? He wasn't proven guilty, was he? I actually trusted the guy. :/

He pretty much disappeared after asking to change accounts. We really don't know what actually happened to him either.

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Antioch
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:22 am 
 

...into thin air. Guess we'll have to wait and see whether he'll ever resurface again. :)
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EzraBlumenfeld
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:19 pm 
 

Is there a reason so many users are hovering right at 5000 points? Do you need approval to continue as a Metal Freak or something?
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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:31 pm 
 

With the introduction of v2 in 2011, the thresholds for various ranks were raised, among them Metal Freak to 5000. I believe Veteran+ users that would've reverted to a lower rank simply had their points increased to the amount required to retain their rank. What you are seeing are such users who simply haven't contributed anything since then.

You can actually observe the same pattern at 1000 points (Veteran).
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MaleficDevilry
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:38 am 
 

What's the breakdown on how to earn points in V2? I can't seem to find a rules page. Do you still earn points for reviews?

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PaganiusI
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:40 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/content/help#tab_ranks
->points

Yes you do ;)
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droneriot
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:55 pm 
 

Erosion of Humanity wrote:
He did some really awful and disrespectful things and got caught lying to users and staff alike. That should suffice.

The real question is if the Nick Quarm duplicate account theory proved to be correct.
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OpsiusCato
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:40 pm 
 

droneriot wrote:
Erosion of Humanity wrote:
He did some really awful and disrespectful things and got caught lying to users and staff alike. That should suffice.

The real question is if the Nick Quarm duplicate account theory proved to be correct.

What was the last thing you remember hearing about this? Maybe something did happen afterwards.
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droneriot
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:04 pm 
 

Actually the last thing I remember was Emptiness Cycle adding me on last.fm, having a profile pic that looked exactly like Intoxicata and listening to the same kind of music, and I asked if that's him, and he gave me one of those denials that sound as believable as these recent "I got leftover Ascension Momuments Media stock but I don't know the person"-stories showing up on discogs under a different name once a month.
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OpsiusCato
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:23 pm 
 

droneriot wrote:
Actually the last thing I remember was Emptiness Cycle adding me on last.fm, having a profile pic that looked exactly like Intoxicata and listening to the same kind of music, and I asked if that's him, and he gave me one of those denials that sound as believable as these recent "I got leftover Ascension Momuments Media stock but I don't know the person"-stories showing up on discogs under a different name once a month.

Yeah, it turned out Intoxicata was one of his early aliases. He went full CK and had many different accounts at different times.

And about your denial example, dude, I laughed so hard my jaw hurts :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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droneriot
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:34 pm 
 

I knew it. I should have asked him for more secret information on his authentic Boreb demo.
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~Guest 21181
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:35 pm 
 

Well, that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole of MA searching. I don't remember intoxicata/xerxes the immoral at all.

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this post made me chuckle though

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UltraBoris
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 3:32 am 
 

>. UltraBoris was something of a legend at one point but his disappearance was not a momentous watershed moment whose portent everyone understood at the time. It was just some guy not posting anymore, and over time a bunch of his reviews got deleted because they were in point of fact shit.

I mean, goddamn, how could you think otherwise?

listen to the false shit. it's occasionally cool as cryo balls. (now slamming: Grand Declaration of War. truth is overrated. trueness doubly so.)
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Morrigan
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:33 am 
 

Hi

Searching for your username again? :)
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Derigin
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:55 am 
 

Gotta love the annual "Boris searches his name on the forum" tradition. Must've been on the sauce again.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:04 am 
 

A true warrior has their name on google alerts so they can draw steel at any moment's notice.
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Leader_OCola
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 12:35 pm 
 

UltraBoris wrote:
>. UltraBoris was something of a legend at one point but his disappearance was not a momentous watershed moment whose portent everyone understood at the time. It was just some guy not posting anymore, and over time a bunch of his reviews got deleted because they were in point of fact shit.

I mean, goddamn, how could you think otherwise?

listen to the false shit. it's occasionally cool as cryo balls. (now slamming: Grand Declaration of War. truth is overrated. trueness doubly so.)



Long time no see. (This is not the screenname I used to use ages ago)

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lurkist
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:27 pm 
 

Been reading this thread all evening, very interesting stuff. Open, informative, illuminating, thanks to all who contributed. It's also so cool to see all the mods etc in the same place at the same time, it's like a Who's Who of MA!

Like so many others, I've discovered a huge amount of music from this site over the years - metal and non-metal - and it's always among the first few I bookmark whenever I get a new device or browser. Many thanks to Morri and HB for their tireless dedication, and to the mods, admins and contributors, past and present.
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MorbidEngel
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 6:54 pm 
 

While Boris has a presence

Is it still "Blopeth"? :V
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UltraBoris
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2019 7:00 pm 
 

MorbidEngel wrote:
While Boris has a presence

Is it still "Blopeth"? :V

dunno; haven't listened in over 15 years.

old Overkill on the other hand .... does not blow.
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~Guest 375902
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2019 11:17 pm 
 

Did gothicmetal terminate his account too?

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2019 1:47 pm 
 

She didn't.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2019 7:52 am 
 

Mybad with the gender assumption. A quick search does not return the user.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2019 8:22 am 
 

"gothicmetal" doesn't, but I assumed you were referring to gothic_metal.

EDIT: Actually, okay, there is someone named gothicmetal as well and his account is deactivated.
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PostPosted: Fri May 17, 2019 5:42 am 
 

Uhh... was there ever another Firebreather(s) band apart from the three listed? I think I encountered one with a golden coloured logo, and maybe 5 or more band members in late 2015.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Fri May 17, 2019 6:09 am 
 

If it was, there is no mention of it in the thread for band deletions nor a blacklist entry.
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PostPosted: Fri May 17, 2019 8:57 am 
 

Well, maybe something to do with how it is supposed to be spelled. Thanks tho

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~Guest 375902
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:17 pm 
 

And out of curiosity, there was an only Tanzanian band once on the archives, was it called Giza Uchawi? I think they had a release titled Uganga?

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Derigin
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:40 pm 
 

Giza Uchawi was briefly on the Archives from around 2008 to 2010. It was removed because apparently it did not exist.

It was also a common target of vandalism. Users repeatedly added fake demos/albums to it. I guess it had some 'legendary' mystique around it.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:37 am 
 

Zodijackyl wrote:
Bans are tied to people and the underlying behavior. Using multiple accounts deceitfully is pretty much an instant ban, but if someone comes back a while later and seems to have corrected their errors, we can be forgiving. Rarely will we be tricked, as those habits tend to be pretty transparent.

That being said, the proper channel is to ask to be unbanned - if you recognize what you did wrong and understand it, just ask us and if it is honest and in good faith, you will likely be unbanned.

...just don't post about politics or argue in site-work threads and you'll do well.


I have always been curious if you guys ever figured out my prior identity. I was dursted January 25, 2008 by Nightgaunt for submitting Alestorm when he told me and another user I was internet fighting with not to.

Kind of embarrassing to fight over something so silly. I couldn't ignore the draw of the Metal-Archives and I resolved to return a couple months later with a clean slate. I love metal and I love this site even if certain bands are excluded from it. My relative maturity has certainly increased from those days, although sometimes I'm still bonkers silly. I blame this progression of my mental state on having kept praying mantises since late 2009.
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Midnightwards666
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:25 am 
 

Goatfangs wrote:
Zodijackyl wrote:
Bans are tied to people and the underlying behavior. Using multiple accounts deceitfully is pretty much an instant ban, but if someone comes back a while later and seems to have corrected their errors, we can be forgiving. Rarely will we be tricked, as those habits tend to be pretty transparent.

That being said, the proper channel is to ask to be unbanned - if you recognize what you did wrong and understand it, just ask us and if it is honest and in good faith, you will likely be unbanned.

...just don't post about politics or argue in site-work threads and you'll do well.


I have always been curious if you guys ever figured out my prior identity. I was dursted January 25, 2008 by Nightgaunt for submitting Alestorm when he told me and another user I was internet fighting with not to.

Kind of embarrassing to fight over something so silly. I couldn't ignore the draw of the Metal-Archives and I resolved to return a couple months later with a clean slate. I love metal and I love this site even if certain bands are excluded from it. My relative maturity has certainly increased from those days, although sometimes I'm still bonkers silly. I blame this progression of my mental state on having kept praying mantises since late 2009.

From my observations, banned users on this site seem to think that their punishment is the inconvenience of having to create a new account. You were dursted before I even registered. Did you submit Alestorm as progressive power metal?!
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