I'll take one!

Wait what happened

I looked around in the Lyceum, and as far as I can tell the only explicit limit on alt accounts is that you can’t use them to vote on your own entries in a battle.

I think nobody is going to feel absolutely happy with whatever measure is put in place for a situation as unique as this. But to treat a compo being almost half bombarded by one person as ‘not a problem, suck it up normies’ is not a good enough response either. I’m aware that my own bias towards it is also steered by how much I like/not like the music too. I have a feeling your response may be different if it was 100 entries of derivative mega man .nsf that you felt obliged to listen and vote on.

They've said before several times they're really happy to host me and my accounts on here; what he's saying is use the "manage collaborators" button and post the songs from one account (that represents my Chip Troop).

I'm sure give it a day or two and it will turn out to be for the better that someone finally said something (I was anticipating this so...) Thx everybody

to me there's nothing wrong with submitting a flood of entries with alt accounts. each of us has a limited amount of time to spend on entries, some chose to spend that time on a small number of well-crafted entries, some submit lots of material that would've deserved more development. some are skilled enough to deliver numbers of consistently great entries, and when you think of it, that my friends, that's what's unfair! excellency! ew!

i would add that imo a lot of the charm of botb is due to the tolerance towards alt accounts and a taste for unusual/cryptic behaviour. it's all fine as long as there is no blatant disrespect and no cheating.

wouldn't it count as cheating though, since there's a deliberate limit of one entry per format per user per major, and the only way around it is to make multiple accounts? also, where's my free hospital boy?

i mean all of his alt accounts get last every single time so it really doesn't count as an unfair advantage in terms of numbers. if anything, i'd have to agree with keffie after looking into the situation; it's a bunch of noise, sure, but it's not to the point of being unfair and disadvantageous. in fact, it's absurdness goes in line with botb's spirit, imho. it's just as weird as most of the other botb memes so i don't really see much wrong with it.

We shall convene the Sanhedrin to decide this matter

FWIW, all the recent forum postings and musics from Snakey Poobah and the Chiparoo Crew are the most fun I've had on this site since Aji's old avatar strutted in. Keep this crazy train rollin'!

It's fascinating, I must say, hospital boy is a core part of BotB! :D

the first rule about hospital boy…

… is that i am also hospital boy

I feel like a n00b for asking:
Can somebody explain Snakey Krew to me?

If I enter a competition, I feel obliged to vote and listen to everything because of the effect of voter strength. This is a drag if on a subjective level there may be many tracks that are not worth my time. If the calculation for that was changed so that if you voted on say, more than 20 entries in a compo, that it would count as full voter strength rather than an increment/percentage of voter strength, I wouldn’t have to fret about wasting my time voting or listening to particular tracks if I don’t want to, and I wouldn’t get penalised in the voting experience for it, and the effect of having a swathe of tracks from multiple alts is lessened on the voter/person looking to enter.

I don't have much to add, other than that i fully agree with GTAP on this matter.

That's not meant to target a specific person or make anyone feel unwelcome or shun them. Everyone should abide by some rules/and common sense and personally i think that entering a compo using main account + a single alt for some less serious submission is fine.

On the other hand, if you create 5 alts just to spam the compo with your stuff, then i recognise it as a problem, because as was mentioned earlier. it's spammy and feels like an attempt at stealing the show.

the point of music site is to encourage people to make more music, if someone makes more music that is always a good thing

Yes I am interested, how do I sign up to receive my free hospital boy

from what i've seen i don't think anyone this summer is trying to steal the show, i've only seen enthusiastic music submitting

whomst’ve the FUCK is using public toilet to post heartwarming shit

related:

for collaborations, are the points that are awarded after the battle split amongst all collaborators, or are they duplicated and given to each? if the latter, then it's kind of cheating to put all your alts on all your entries as collaborators, because then you're netting like 6x the points total. (but that's only an issue if the points are awarded the 2nd way, and i don't know if that's the case)

i remember there was some talk about having a way for alts to be explicitly linked, and a possible feature where you can dynamically switch between alts instead of logging out and back in. we would encourage users strongly to register their alts (cue new world order/holocaust reference), and/or we could have alt associations be set by admins and not user-removable. like an ailment (lol)

this feature would allow for at least three technological solutions for various aspects of this social problem:

- split an entry's points evenly amongst alts when they collaborate together
- automatically disallow voting on an entry by an alt (the way you can't vote on your own entries)
- prohibit voting on an entry more than once by using an alt

(i'll see if i can find a thread about this feature request so i can add these ideas, btw)

also, to make it clear, i'm an admin and i'm pro-hospital krew too <3
i haven't been paying attention to what's been going on, but i agree with kf's premise as written.