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by fluffy
Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6784

Re: Pronouns profile field added

Thanks. My original response was pretty flippant but only because it's a thing I am very tired of having to discuss with people after literal decades of pushback and abuse (which still happens today, and if anything has gotten much worse in the last few years — and a lot of it starts out with people...
by fluffy
Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6784

Re: Pronouns profile field added

The thing is, early on when the pronoun field was optional, some people did still use it as an opportunity to spread hate, thus my first words on this very thread. I am under no illusion that mandatory pronoun fields will make the world a better place, but they at least become a helpful signal to pe...
by fluffy
Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6784

Re: Pronouns profile field added

So, let me tell you a little story. I have been part of the Song Fight! community longer than anyone else who is still active. I started visiting the site in December 2000, and first entered in January, 2001. When I first joined at the end of 2000, I had long known I was trans, but I was deeply clos...
by fluffy
Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:38 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: 100 Artists for SongFight #1000!
Replies: 54
Views: 2326

Re: 100 Artists for SongFight #1000!

I'll see what I can do. Maybe a sequel to And Counting, which was the 500th official title.

Kilofight.

A liter of titles.
by fluffy
Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:55 pm
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6784

Re: Pronouns profile field added

You don't have to, you're just asked to think about it for a few seconds before you fill it with nonbreaking spaces or a meme or whatever.
by fluffy
Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:48 pm
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6784

Re: Pronouns profile field added

Yes, exactly. Meanwhile, I'm fine with inconveniencing people by making them have to think about others for a couple seconds.

plus it's a good signal for filtering out spam accounts
by fluffy
Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6784

Re: Pronouns profile field added

I'm glad that you're part of the group that doesn't normally have to think about this shit and who has never felt the impact of being the "default."
by fluffy
Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6784

Re: Pronouns profile field added

Longer answer: I see that you have set your pronouns to 'private.' That is certainly your right to do so, and there are plenty of other options that you could use to specifically opt out of having pronouns stated. By not declaring your pronouns, that means that when people want to refer to you in th...
by fluffy
Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Forums
Topic: Pronouns profile field added
Replies: 25
Views: 6784

Re: Pronouns profile field added

Nah.
by fluffy
Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:20 am
Forum: Concerts and Events
Topic: Song Fight! Turns 20
Replies: 52
Views: 8246

Re: Song Fight! Turns 20

When the three people who actually run the site are saying “it’s a request, not a rule” you can be pretty assured that it is a request, not a rule.

That said, it’s a thing that’s only happened in exceptional circumstances and it should ideally stay that way.
by fluffy
Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: Concerts and Events
Topic: Song Fight! Turns 20
Replies: 52
Views: 8246

Re: Song Fight! Turns 20

Yeah the easier approach would be to retroactively change the archive data to give them all the same artist name, although I'm not sure how that'll interact with the vote counts.
by fluffy
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:41 pm
Forum: Concerts and Events
Topic: Song Fight! Turns 20
Replies: 52
Views: 8246

Re: Song Fight! Turns 20

And even if there were (by using abstract file IDs instead of the band name as the vote key — which we really should be doing anyway!) there's still the issue of the listener knowing which of ten Goatfucker songs they're voting for. Having a number in the artist name is just easier for everyone.
by fluffy
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:34 pm
Forum: Monkey Business
Topic: Copyright musings
Replies: 9
Views: 565

Re: Copyright musings

John Cage's "4:33" contains four and a half minutes of complete silence. Does he own the copyright to silence? What if I released a digital cover of 4:33, and since it was produced digitally, it is truly silent. Now John Cage only owns the copyright to the silence in HIS recording of 4:33...
by fluffy
Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:53 pm
Forum: Concerts and Events
Topic: Song Fight! Turns 20
Replies: 52
Views: 8246

Re: Song Fight! Turns 20

People can already enter with as many band names as they want, and the workarounds that have been used are just because there's no way to tell things apart otherwise, both in the software and by the humans using it.
by fluffy
Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:26 pm
Forum: Concerts and Events
Topic: Song Fight! Turns 20
Replies: 52
Views: 8246

Re: Song Fight! Turns 20

There's no rule against multiple entries per person. Just a suggestion that you focus on making one good entry instead of three crappy ones.
by fluffy
Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:35 am
Forum: Monkey Business
Topic: The MP3 Effect
Replies: 14
Views: 1616

Re: The MP3 Effect

8” disks were floppy disks because they were, well, very floppy, being a semi-rigid casing around a mylar disc. 5.25” disks were compact versions of 8” disks and were still a semi-rigid casing around a mylar disc. 3.5” disks were a harder case but the disc inside was still mylar and floppy. When mp3...
by fluffy
Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: Monkey Business
Topic: The MP3 Effect
Replies: 14
Views: 1616

Re: The MP3 Effect

Vinyl is something that has turned into a niche fringe geek thing, even though it may sound better. I don't wonder that analog camera technology is the same. Vinyl doesn't sound "better" in any objective sense, but it's a very different experience of active listening which is very easy to...
by fluffy
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: Monkey Business
Topic: The MP3 Effect
Replies: 14
Views: 1616

Re: The MP3 Effect

IMO, if you're listening hard enough to your music to tell the difference between high-bitrate mp3 and FLAC etc., you're paying too much attention to the minutiae and not actually enjoying the music. 128kbps CBR mp3 sounds like ass and can really take me out of the thing but like, as long as I'm not...
by fluffy
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: Concerts and Events
Topic: Song Fight! Turns 20
Replies: 52
Views: 8246

Re: Song Fight! Turns 20

How are we counting fight #1000? Are we including the special one-off private challenges and retroactively-inserted shitposts? What about fights that only existed at the earliest live shows?
by fluffy
Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:35 pm
Forum: Help and How To
Topic: Least-shitty distribution and manufacturing channels
Replies: 100
Views: 18855

Re: Least-shitty distribution and manufacturing channels

Funny thing is my opinion on CDBaby had changed somewhat since they've restructured their pricing to actually be pretty okay these days. But wow I didn't realize they were taking that big of a cut, jeeze.
by fluffy
Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:03 pm
Forum: Daily Roll Call
Topic: Happy 2024! Got any plans, goals, etc.?
Replies: 9
Views: 4082

Re: Happy 2024! Got any plans, goals, etc.?

ken wrote:
Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:26 am
I have been thinking about a couple of songfight related things:
1. Bring back instant band
2. Organize a cover fight
I would be extremely into both of these things. I've missed instant band especially.
by fluffy
Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:05 pm
Forum: Daily Roll Call
Topic: Happy 2024! Got any plans, goals, etc.?
Replies: 9
Views: 4082

Re: Happy 2024! Got any plans, goals, etc.?

I don't do resolutions, I just have things I'd like to go better next time around. It looks like my 2023 goals were: Work on VRChat stuff: YES, I made my own avatar from scratch Work on games: NO Work on music: SORTA, I did some game jam music and started a meditation podcast but I didn't do nearly ...