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hey n00b! these red flags might be helpful. love and learn.

1. reacting to reviews (or lack of one) by calling the reviewers names. telling them to go fuck yourself is iffy, but i know pigpen isn't a noob.

2. complaining about the fact that people might not actually like your song.

3. apologizing in advance in the pre-fight thread.

4. picking a fight with blue.

5. complaining about the fight (or title) not being posted on time.

[<b>Admin sez: I changed the title of this thread</b>]

number 1 is starting to annoy me.

6. getting annoyed when people are annoyed by your reviews.

7. Being A New Player.

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8. Any rebuttal to a negative review that in any way alludes to "constructive criticism".

8a. Any such allusion that includes one word in all caps. (esp. any variant on "don't just tell me that my singing was bad, tell me HOW to make it better")

9. Feeling that your lo-fi G&G song really, truly should have won.

10. Having your lo-fi G&G guitar win, but only because you got a few people to stuff the ballot box.

11. Being confused by the fight format into thinking that winning gets you anything.

12. actually believing that just because a song got the most votes, it was the best song of the fight.

naw, i'd say fluffy's #9 is a general symptom of any songfighter. every time i enter, i think i should win.

But you don't enter lo-fi G&G anymore. And you have won.

13. you think "the more songs i enter, the better my chances of winning...."

13a. you do it anyways, despite an FAQ that asks you not to.

14. you submit a song you previously recorded.

14a. you submit a song you previously recorded and forget to change the ID3 tag.

You reply to spam posts, even though it makes it take like a bazilling clicks and a bunch of scrolling instead of three clicks to delete the spam. Oh wait, that just makes you aggravating, not a noob.

You haven't even entered yet and you're already trying to change the voting system, suggesting sidefights, themes, or ways to improve the site.

jb wrote:You reply to spam posts, even though it makes it take like a bazilling clicks and a bunch of scrolling instead of three clicks to delete the spam. Oh wait, that just makes you aggravating, not a noob.

And I thought it was fun before I knew this!

Ha. Almost all of those things describe me. Heh. Maybe I should learn from all this.

15. You think you can learn from all this
16. You vote for yourself hoping to break the inevitable tie

X. You think you can do something that hasn't already been done in any previous SF! entry.

Somebody in the "Control Yourself" review thread said something like "Dude, I was going to use a vocoder next week but since you used one this week I'd just sound derivative!" And I thought, "Hm, aren't there literally 100s of songs in the archive with vocoded vocals?"

Yes, because there are never any new ideas.

(That isn't to say that most "new" ideas aren't, but still.)

A corollary would be:

X+1. You set out specifically to do something that hasn't already been done in any previous SF! entry, without listening to the entire archive to see if it hasn't been done

fluffy wrote:X+1. You set out specifically to do something that hasn't already been done in any previous SF! entry, without listening to the entire archive to see if it hasn't been done

Well, that could apply to us all. Except Glenn.

Well it was the specificity of wanting to do something new to Song Fight, not the wanting to do something new.

Lunkhead wrote:X. You think you can do something that hasn't already been done in any previous SF! entry.

Somebody in the "Control Yourself" review thread said something like "Dude, I was going to use a vocoder next week but since you used one this week I'd just sound derivative!" And I thought, "Hm, aren't there literally 100s of songs in the archive with vocoded vocals?"

it was actually me that said that, and i have never actually heard a song with vocoder on songfight before, so fucking crucify me.

edit: i also did not assume i would be the FIRST to use it. i just thought it would seem more fishy if i did it the week after

I think we need a corollary to #1, about telling people to fuck off when someone makes an innocent offhanded remark about something which happens to apply to you.