hi!
we are giving you a two week "scrub" ailment (read more here) for submitting several entries which are either "low effort" or not following the rules.
sleeparrow brought this up a couple months ago with your Future Battles submissions, which weren't quite on topic and seemingly low effort.
now, in the current major, there's your LSDJ entry, which is just a single pattern in the wave & noise channels... i'm really glad you tried out something new, but please spend some more time developing your entry first!
...and there's also your PET entry which isn't even playable - you should also be sure your entry works and sounds like you intended before you submit.
the ailment will go away after two weeks, and you can avoid it in the future by putting more care and effort into your entries. you can still submit more entries too, to be clear! we just strongly discourage submissions like this.
Hi Ludvig, unfortunately you are receiving a two week scrub ailment for submitting this song as a cover of a Fearofdark entry. Please remember site rules prohibit covers of songs. (But Decadent Decade will allow for botb-specific covers if/when that battle shows up!)
All that said, thanks for joining in Advent -- it's fairly early in the day, if you are quick you can still resubmit a new entry and have a valid one for today. Thanks!
i'm adding 2 weeks to your scrub for submitting another .wav here, i warned you about this less than a week ago here. it's against the rules - mainly because the web player only plays .mp3s, so other audio filetypes waste our server space, since a render needs to be uploaded anyway.
i apologize if this comes off as being harsh, but we do need to enforce our rules!
well, it was almost the end of school when i was gonna submit the entry and i had no time to convert the wav file to mp3, and i made the song in school too.
yes, but i couldn't email the entry to myself, and my substitude teacher told me to go home when it was time, and it was 14:55 when i was submitting the entry in sweden, that is. , and 14:55 was the end time of the school time and when we all can go home.
i will tell you this stuff one more time: please put more time and effort into your entries, and please don't submit illegal entries. if you don't know how to do a format, spend some time learning first, and make something with what you learned - we have helpful lyceum articles for all of the formats! don't be impatient, don't make excuses for why you didn't do something, just follow the rules. it's part of being on the site.
i'm saying this because you have uploaded several entries to Advent which break the rules, and you were warned about this multiple times already. sing a song (tic80) doesn't work, party at night (teletext) was submitted nine minutes into the battle, your boom map was also submitted immediately and doesn't work.
for this, i'm extending your scrub ailment another 6 weeks... bringing you up to mid-February for that being removed. if you submit another illegal or low-effort entry before then, you will be banned from the site. now, if you have any confusion over what's OK and what's not, please ask us in the chat before you try and submit something. i would much rather have you around, of course, so i hope that you can put some more work into your future submissions and have a good time here still.
we have decided to give you the mummi ailment, which is a site and chat ban. this is primarily due to submitting a lot of rule-breaking or low-effort entries, repeatedly, after we have told you not to & explained why those things were against the rules. additionally, your attitude in response has not shown any signs that you'll try and do better about following those rules in the future. you have only made excuses instead of apologies.
so, we are taking action, and we are banning your account (and your new alt). we might revisit this decision in a year or two - people grow up and learn better, after all - but for the time being, this is our final decision. best of luck on your future artistic endeavors, i do hope you keep practicing.
I just noticed that you got mummied a bit ago, and I want to say that (despite how you have handled this situation and a few before this), you have genuine sparks of talent in your work. I hope you were able to use this site to learn what to and not to do in regards to the people around you and that you use the platforms you are not banned on to spark something greater in the future. Why am I writing a whole paragraph to a user on a music forum I didn't even make any interactions with, and who will probably never see this message nonetheless? Because I can only imagine how much it sucks to have an entire community of amazing individuals stripped from you, just like that, for what was your honest hard work. You were certainly an interesting individual on this site, and I want you to use that as your strength. Don't be ashamed of what you are and what you make; just be you without compromising on anyone else (and also through reading extensively at the rules; I know it's not enjoyable at all, but you're saving yourself from several possible artistic headaches by doing so). I know I attempted to give an answer as to what came over me to write this, but frankly, I don't truly know. Perhaps I just want to see you grow into the extremely talented individual I know that, without a doubt, you can be.
i guess i'll put my experiences here, if only because half of my personality is spewing anecdote /hj
when i was 12, i joined the community of the creepypasta wiki. this was the "wikia" one, mind you - back when they used to have a built in chat for things and was still sorta tied to wikipedia. i used to frequent that and the chat of encyclopedia spongebobia and woof, was i young back then. i don't mean to exaggerate when i say that the things you did bring me back to 2013 in a "too close to home" kinda fashion
but i digress. i was a little shit, i'd admit it. pushed buttons, taunted people, you name it and i prolly did it daily. finally, one day, the mods finally learned what my age was - don't ask me how exactly, the exact events are foggy in my mind - and banned me then and there. they had a 14+ age limit back then (still do, maybe?) and since then, i've never really touched it. initially, it was due to the saltiness of being banned from it and i kinda just left
it wasn't until cases like you started popping up that i actually thought of why i never came back. eventually, i grew out of creepypastas. my tastes diversified into visual art and music and niche video games. i had gone through so many experiences through my time away - entered and left so many communities, did so many things, met so many people - that i feel like i had grown away from it. i suppose i could join back, but why?
that's what i kinda want this experience to be for you. i can't speak for them here, but after the battle you hosted while being mummi'd of ALL ailments and trying to evade your ban, i think you've snapped the patience of the administration here. them's the breaks, i'm afraid
BUT, do not see this as a denial of who you are as a person. from here, there are a million avenues. like mrperson987 above me has suggested, you could probably keep doing what you're doing now, just surrounding yourself with different people. perhaps you could become something different; a writer, a visual artist, a coder, there's a lot out there. it's up to you to find that which beckons to you, and if it happens to keep being music, then chase that passion!! don't let a ban stop you, ESPECIALLY if you've got a talent in it that people can recognize
before writing this, i visited the creepypasta wiki i mentioned in the beginning of this post. i'll admit, it's a much different experience: for one, the site isn't called wikia anymore and isn't...well, good. as well, though, i'm not using my username from that time and i don't even remember what it was. something stupid like t-rex-post-shid or smth like that.
but, in seeing that community still go on without my presence really put into perspective how long it has been and how much has changed. i don't mean just in me or in the community, but in the world at large. hopefully this experience will be like that to you