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Poignee t1_j2nn98n wrote

Reply to comment by thegreatself in The auto-mod and (lack of) general moderation on this sub is an absolute joke. by thegreatself

I'm at this point too now with Spotify. I hate making playlists and am always looking for something new, but lately most radios just have the same songs as the previous ones and I listen to that until a new ear worm slips in and I go to that song's radio.

I didn't know about Every Noise At Once until your post, but I'm going to explore it to find new songs from my country and province that I have been less exposed to.

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goodusernamegood t1_j2nmqxp wrote

Reply to The auto-mod and (lack of) general moderation on this sub is an absolute joke. by thegreatself

Mods could be stopping link farming.

They could be turning the sub into a healthy place for discussing music, instead of a cesspit where the same old songs get upvoted time and time again, and anything outside of what a handful of redditors deems "real music" is immediately downvoted.

They could be removing the daily "recommend me music, I like anything" threads that add nothing of value (these are banned under rule 8 but they're never removed).

They could be combating the racism that's prevelant on the sub any time a black artist gets in any controversy.

They could, at the very least, ban people from posting "who?" on articles about artists' deaths.

They could either uphold or amend rules 6 and 7 since there's hundreds of posts breaking them every week.

They could respond to modmail, or at least acknowledge to the community that they're doing anything to combat the shocking state of this subreddit.

They don't do any of that and despite clearly not caring about the quality of the sub, they also refuse to appoint any new mods.

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thegreatself OP t1_j2njs2r wrote

Reply to comment by Malice_n_Flames in The auto-mod and (lack of) general moderation on this sub is an absolute joke. by thegreatself

This is okay to a point - past it you benefit from some manual input.

It can be kind of mindless to just let a machine pick things for you based on your previous habits because it can feed this ouroboros-like cycle of endless similarity.

I've had to 'Ignore' multiple songs I genuinely liked because the algorithm just kept feeding them to me over and over - and over - and then one more time because obviously I liked it so much.

So yeah, Spotify has been on-point with a lot of recommendations but it can be more engaging and rewarding to do a little legwork yourself, so to speak - or at least feel like you've done some.

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