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As you please, m'lady...

Seeing as how this thread has disturbingly outlived its purpose, and i'm now disturbed reading all of this - Thread Closed. Until further notice, trade-offs will continue to be hosted every other month, and the deadlines will be as flexible as they need to. The blacklist will certainly be enforced.

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As someone who has both hosted and participated in the majority of the trade-offs here, I think that's a bit of an overstatement. There definitely is an issue with certain users not submitting reviews, but I'd argue that those users exist within an extreme minority and are the exception, not the norm. The majority of participants usually do submit their reviews, even if they're late. For the small percentage of users that don't follow through, we've enacted a blacklist (though I admit that we need to be stricter about enforcing that). Using the current anime trade-off as an example is not a good idea. I specifically altered the rules for this trade-off, making things much more involved than they usually are. So I went into this expecting that many users would not make the deadlines. And it's ok if they're late, as long as they follow through within a reasonable time frame. Furthermore, you can't use the dates like that either because there are specific variables that have not been taken into account. For instance, the review deadline was the 25th, but the deadline for sending out mixes was on the 18th - which is only one week apart. Some users did not send out their mixes until after the 18th, so the members that received their mix late had even less than a week to write their review (if they wanted to fulfill the technical deadline). So when you take those factors into account, you realize that no one has had a month to write their review, because they haven't even had their mix that long. Indeed, life is busy for most of us, so we do try to give a bit of leeway with these things. Because at the end of the day, this is just for fun - it shouldn't be a chore. However, you are absolutely correct to say that people should know what to expect when they sign up for these trade-offs. If you can't fulfill the commitments, then don't sign up.

Yukimi Nagano's voice is as stellar as ever

Welcome to MH! We're always happy to have new members here, however, we do have rules - one being that we do not insult other members here. So I'd highly recommend taking a look at our forum rules before posting again. Thanks.

Who's heard the new album, and what are your thoughts?

Followed! Kelly, the Kpop missionary We've already been following each other for a while, but...!

Gave you a follow Pretty sure I owe that DEAN play to @doombox, as Kpop is not something I usually listen to.

The new Ravyn Lenae is great. She's got a fantastic voice and a really good ear for vocal melodies.

Nah that's their bassist. 9mm's music has been fairly sterile over the past decade now? So I wonder if being in Envy will reignite that rawness that I know Taki has.

The samples actually have me excited for this!!!