3 hours ago, Mr.X said:

Hey @ATRL Administration it's been brought to my attention that ATRL is affiliated with Amazon, which is a direct target on the BDS boycott list due to their direct financing of the Israeli gov and IDF, and thus an active complicit partner of the genocide against the Palestinians.

Besides that, we all know how Amazon exploits their workers, doesn't pay their fair share of taxes and agressively destroys local businesses.

Could there be a way to boycott or at least divest from this monster of an organisation?

this is from the Shop & Tickets window on artist / album threads and iirc unfortunately it's an ownership decision not an admin one :(

13 hours ago, Devin said:

its just 1 user who made sex their whole identity.

Who?

15 minutes ago, Mythical said:

Who?

Why was my thread merged? One thread is about Spotify hitting an all-time low in streams, the other is about what's next. they're clearly different discussions.

It's getting tired

Mods are so boring. Base isn't even fun anymore

7 minutes ago, Yellowfever said:

Why was my thread merged? One thread is about Spotify hitting an all-time low in streams, the other is about what's next. they're clearly different discussions.

It's getting tired

Are you going to complain every single time one of your threads gets merged? It's not that deep. The subjects were the exact same, made 15h apart.

14 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

Are you going to complain every single time one of your threads gets merged?

12 hours ago, BjorkIsMyMom said:

Ok maybe higher key but I'd love to see what DMF's OnlyFans content is like.

Well we know he for sure uses that silly Xtina lube.. Probably her most loyal customer.

1 hour ago, Yellowfever said:

It's getting tired

Imagine how tired we are of having to do it.

OOOOOOHHHH
MYYYYYYYYYYYY

I am literally shaking and crying.

Can you please put a banner up for legend Dolly?

Long sigh.

Edited August 25Aug 25 by slw84

Remember last year when there was a scare...and then her team said she was fine. The same thing happened to Aretha and others. Something in my heart just knew and since it happened last year I thought I was being paranoid.

Whew. The LEGEND, TRAILBLAZER, ICON and SPECIAL SPIRIT.

EVERYONE knows Dolly. Everyone loves Auntie Dolly.

This is just...OMFG.

Like I'm still crying...she cross barriers and boundaries.

She's truly one of one.

Sometimes you have to give us a bit to put the banners up. We have jobs

Thank you @PenguinTim for filling my request yet again.

6 hours ago, ImpressMeMuch said:

this is from the Shop & Tickets window on artist / album threads and iirc unfortunately it's an ownership decision not an admin one :(

Thank you for the information. So could we make a case to the owner?

1 hour ago, Rian said:

Sometimes you have to give us a bit to put the banners up. We have jobs

Thank you @PenguinTim for filling my request yet again.

Thank you. I was in a state of shock a few hours ago so my apologies if I came across as if I tried to rush it.

Me getting bombarded with 6 notices? about general conductual behaviour after loging OMG.

It became funny to me because of the quantity

I guess it was a backlog after so much time without loging.

what am i being reminded of?

1 minute ago, gelato said:

what am i being reminded of?

cant speak for the mod who did it, but i do this sometimes too. if its nothing serious, i dont give a reason bc its obvs the user knows what they doing and its being brought to our attention.

1 minute ago, Devin said:

cant speak for the mod who did it, but i do this sometimes too. if its nothing serious, i dont give a reason bc its obvs the user knows what they doing and its being brought to our attention.

thank you

well if accusing someone of being sloth is worthy of a reminder then i trust the mod who accused me of being arrogant in the same exchange will also be reminded. i'll report it so that it's definitely been brought to you guys' attention

Edited August 26Aug 26 by gelato

3 minutes ago, gelato said:

thank you

well if accusing someone of being sloth is worthy of a reminder then i trust the mod who accused me of being arrogant in the same exchange will also be reminded. i'll report it so that it's definitely been brought to you guys' attention

before you get too upset. the mod you were interacting with didnt issue the WP either. there are 23 mods total, and 14 are online rn lol.

Just now, Devin said:

before you get too upset. the mod you were interacting with didnt issue the WP either. there are 23 mods total, and 14 are online rn lol.

nah it's ok i assumed that. thank you tho.

the whole interaction was slightly bizarre in isolation, but it's the second encounter i've had with the same mod where they kept escalating things after i said i didnt want to continue the discussion/it was disruptive, and my third encounter with them in total (my first was a minor whacking of them that gained a lot of upvotes after they were rude to another user). maybe that's where this pattern of behaviour comes from but i'd appreciate if they didnt interact with me anymore and if the admin made it so when someone became a mod they werent taken off a user's ignore list

1 minute ago, gelato said:

the whole interaction was slightly bizarre in isolation

I agree. You posted a lie, didn't back up your claim when you had the burden of proof, and then acted all innocent (like previous times). Your constant need of complaining about your warnings in HQ and doubting every single moderation decision is bizarre too.

As for the ignore feature: you can ignore my posts, but you decide to interact with them still (even downvoting when you don't have an answer for them).

Nobody escalated anything with you, I was trying to have a debate, but you obviously weren't interested in making your claim with honesty. I will avoid interacting with you from now on.

thanks for agreeing not to interact with me anymore.

what i initially posted wasn't a lie. you can keep insisting that but if you google taylor swift + the phrase you will get pages of links about it. a user even provided one such link to you. what was a lie was your claim to have already googled it before you disingenuously posted "source?" just because you don't like the idea of taylor swift having written "Republicans do it better" on MySpace (https://www.vox.com/2015/2/10/8012953/obama-shake-it-off; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/24/the-guardian-view-on-taylor-swift-an-envoy-for-trumps-values). if you had googled it then you wouldn't still be saying it was a claim that i personally made up when the original comment is from 2008 and articles have mentioned it from decades

you replied to my original post so i replied back to you, and didn't want to proceed since it was derailing the topic of the thread (which was why is ophelia charting higher than htimylm on amazon music) which is why i left the discussion on a downvote rather than another reply, not because i couldn't have answered if i wanted to. that's de-escalation and you should start practicing it more if you don't want feedback about your unconciliatory nature making you a poor fit to moderate an online community. my point about the ignore feature was that i'd rather your posts would stay automatically collapsed as they do with ignored regular users.

that thread wasn't the place for a back-and-forth debate over that specific point. if you sincerely wanted a debate you could've messaged me or followed it up in SYG or something, not insist on disrupting the thread. you were disingenuous when you quickly posted and deleted a reply to me weeks ago, and you were disingenuous earlier today. my behaviour is not a pattern of dishonesty but yours is, but i hope you can learn from it and grow.

"Your constant need of complaining about your warnings in HQ and doubting every single moderation decision is bizarre too." i've done it like three times in two months, and if you look at my (somewhat extensive) warning point history and how many posts i've made in hq questioning them, you would see your statement is patently false. i would prefer to ask for feedback on WPs and decisions i'm not sure about privately through help requests but that's not an option. sorry if doing it publicly is a poor reflection of you, but maybe it's not a bad thing. more transparency can be good.

anyway, that's my last word to you and i'll see if i can find other solutions so i don't have to see your content.

Edited August 26Aug 26 by gelato

since this is public, if anyone is interested then here are the links to all my exchanges with that user so you can make your mind up for yourself:

I appreciate @Devin stepping in to try and calm the waters, but @gelato you were out of line. The reminder issued (a reminder mind you) was basically a "chill, you're doing too much". And you were. Coming into HQ assuming that the mod you were in disagreement with and thus taking a hostile tone was also out of line. You aren't the first person to assume such, but I promise you will be the last. Because going forward, if a member assumes a specific mod warns them and tries to make issue with it, they will be warned again and suspended for a week. I'm tired of this team being attacked because some of you cannot handle yourself on the internet.

Now, as far as the alleged Taylor Swift comment goes, where no one can reproduce screenshots of this supposed comment, even if she said it so what. That was over 20 years ago. It's obvious that her politics (that she's spoken openly about) dont align with that anymore (again, if she said it). What's more ridiculous is you deliberately trolling trying to make a 20 year old comment relevant as it relates to what exactly? Like this is the kind of ridiculous, low effort trolling that has become a nuisance here. You know I have no issue with you, but seeing how petty this whole thing was really speaks volumes about and it's not a good look.

You do not have to interact with his posts, you choose to do so. You do not have to engage in back in forth in HQ (which as stated in the OP is not allowed), you choose to do so. Stop it.

On 8/25/2026 at 12:36 AM, blackoutbaby said:

Don't_Forget_About_Us.mp3

Done.