Metal Storm - Happy New Year And Some Updates
The team of Metal Storm would like to wish all of you a happy new year. We hope your Christmas has been as good as ours and are looking forward to another year with the best metal community out there.
In terms of New Year's resolutions, we recently updated the FAQ and brought it up to date with some new rules and permissions, especially regarding forum behavior, meme usage and quoting. We have become more and more lenient in the past and still feel that an open community is the best way to go. But a healthy community cannot work without some basic rules. And since the internet is evolving fast, new rules are needed to keep up.
We updated section 1.2 - The rules of posting as follows:
We also changed the rules for submitting guest reviews as FAQ section 4.2 - Guest Reviews Rules & Guidelines will tell you.
Which means that from now on, guest reviews for popular new releases should get accepted way easier.
We hope you can all live with these new rules and that each of you will do their best to keep this community as friendly and welcoming as it is.
The Metal Storm staff, elites and contributors.
In terms of New Year's resolutions, we recently updated the FAQ and brought it up to date with some new rules and permissions, especially regarding forum behavior, meme usage and quoting. We have become more and more lenient in the past and still feel that an open community is the best way to go. But a healthy community cannot work without some basic rules. And since the internet is evolving fast, new rules are needed to keep up.
We updated section 1.2 - The rules of posting as follows:
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Please refrain from using pictures to illustrate a point (memes) unless that point is clearly depicted by that picture. Especially we won't allow memes without any written text. If you feel that a picture can contribute to the topic in a funny or informative way, please add some lines to it, explaining your point. Posts not adhering to this will be deleted without warning. As will posts with multiple memes.
When quoting other users, please delete any nested quotes (quotes within quotes) you don't want to comment on. If you feel you need to post a nested quote, please see to it that it doesn't go above four layers of nesting. When quoting posts containing images or videos, please remove all images and videos in your quote unless you are directly referring to the image or video. In these cases, please avoid quoting more than one item at once.
We also changed the rules for submitting guest reviews as FAQ section 4.2 - Guest Reviews Rules & Guidelines will tell you.
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- New releases are reserved for staff reviewers. Guest reviewers must wait 90 days after a release date or 30 days after an official review is published, whichever comes first.
Which means that from now on, guest reviews for popular new releases should get accepted way easier.
We hope you can all live with these new rules and that each of you will do their best to keep this community as friendly and welcoming as it is.
The Metal Storm staff, elites and contributors.
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Anyone who has a problem with meme rules... this is acceptable: Quote: Meme is relevant and supported by a sentence.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| selken Irreligious Posts: 949  |
Written by X-Ray Rod on 05.01.2012 at 20:23 I mean, few forums have rules like these... anyway like I said, I approve it, I don't use pics in my posts, I'm too lazy to do that, but if I were a memeholic I maybe felt restricted 
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| Mad Mike Posts: 163  |
Written by BitterCOld on 05.01.2012 at 02:31 That was exactly my point on my last post. Just think of all the racial slurs, countless trolls, private messages containing death threats, arrow-to-the-knee jokes, endless and redundant metallica vs. megadeth arguments, and entire posts in caps we are saving ourselves from by having said mods.
---- Did you ever notice that the people who tell you to get a life are normally people who should be dead in the first place?
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3264  |
Written by Troy Killjoy on 04.01.2012 at 22:19 Hey ! Why are you picking on Bad English You know he's got some spelling problems, nothing new here.
---- - Headbanging with mostly clogged arteries to that stuff - Guib's List Of Essential Albums - Also Thrash Paradise Thrash Here
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| Kap'N Korrupt Account deleted |
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Account deleted Written by Guib on 06.01.2012 at 18:31 ...and furthermore, if you make that rule here on MS, that exes out a lot of users on here whose first language wasn't English to begin with...remember, this is an ESTONIAN site based in EUROPE...not the United States of Whatever...
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306 |
^ Sense of humor fail.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Carl Berg Carl Berg Posts: 589  |
A huge applause for the MS team for all their hard work in 2011! The new website design as well as the tireless work of the staff/mods this last year have made MS the most visited and respected metal sites on the internet. The site has come a long way since the early days... aaah nostalgia...
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3418  |
Written by Mad Mike on 06.01.2012 at 09:08 What is this arrow to the knee stuff anyway? What does it mean?
---- "I'm here to nunchuck and not wear helmets. And I'm all out of helmets." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306 |
Written by M C Vice on 08.01.2012 at 09:39 Play Skyrim. Or use Google. 
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| vezzy Stallmanite Posts: 3493  |
I used to ask questions that could be Googled in three seconds. Then I took an arrow to the knee... (schmuck bait)
---- Licensed under the GPLv3. Relinquish proprietary software for a greater GNU/America.
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| Milena gloom cookie Staff Posts: 4603  |
Quote:Written by [user id=2084] on 06.01.2012 at 19:27 I believe Troy's point was that having spelling problems can be cured in 30000 posts 
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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| ANGEL REAPER Posts: 3687  |
Quote: Is this because my responses on Darkthrone and vinyl ? cause i can totally stop doing that ...
---- "Cross is only an iron,hope is just an illusion,freedom is nothing but a name..." "Build your walls of the dead stone...Build your roofs of a dead wood..Build your dreams of a dead thoughts" 
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306 |
Written by ANGEL REAPER on 08.01.2012 at 23:18 It's directed at the general public. Too many times we see quote pyramids that mount to an entire page...
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Kap'N Korrupt Account deleted |
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@Troy Killjoy: I know eh....fuck, those are hard on the eyes... 
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