At first I didn’t see the “March” in the Twitter post. But I think my old eyes just aren’t working right. Maybe s a post clarifying that it’s March 14 that the title goes up, since I misread it as saying this month the 14th and Maybe I’m not the only one with that kind of brain damage.

ISO-8601, the only correct one

Oh absolutely. I had AI-written "Radio Galaxy" lyrics which were surprisingly good but not good enough for me to want to record, and I used AI as a sort of bouncing-ideas-off-of thing when I was writing "Material Change" but none of the lyrics GPT came up with for that stuck (but...

Thankfully the challenge is to not use it, and TBH that should always be part of the implied challenge. We’re already speedrunning songwriting here, no sense also speedrunning songwriting talent.

Put another way: we’re RTA, not TAS.

the optional challenge was don’t use AI, btw

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Wed Jan 24, 2024 7:06 pm

I don't love the idea of trying to send out a mass email. Feels a little spammy.

yeah same, I wasn't actually advocating it as an idea

I don’t think we actually have a list of artist emails anywhere. The forum might have an email announcement function though, I dunno.

Yeah it's always a good idea to copy-paste it rather than to rely on the forum. The forum is a lot more stable than it used to be nowadays but there's still limitations.

I was bad at predicting storage and networking trends. I would not have predicted that in 2024 that my WAN and LAN speeds would match. I did not expect that Gigabit Ethernet would still be with us. I would have expected, by now, to treat it with the same disdain normally reserved for "Fast Eth...

Thanks. My original response was pretty flippant but only because it's a thing I am very tired of having to discuss with people after literal decades of pushback and abuse (which still happens today, and if anything has gotten much worse in the last few years — and a lot of it starts out with people...

The thing is, early on when the pronoun field was optional, some people did still use it as an opportunity to spread hate, thus my first words on this very thread. I am under no illusion that mandatory pronoun fields will make the world a better place, but they at least become a helpful signal to pe...

So, let me tell you a little story. I have been part of the Song Fight! community longer than anyone else who is still active. I started visiting the site in December 2000, and first entered in January, 2001. When I first joined at the end of 2000, I had long known I was trans, but I was deeply clos...

I'll see what I can do. Maybe a sequel to And Counting, which was the 500th official title.

Kilofight.

A liter of titles.

You don't have to, you're just asked to think about it for a few seconds before you fill it with nonbreaking spaces or a meme or whatever.

Yes, exactly. Meanwhile, I'm fine with inconveniencing people by making them have to think about others for a couple seconds.

plus it's a good signal for filtering out spam accounts

I'm glad that you're part of the group that doesn't normally have to think about this shit and who has never felt the impact of being the "default."

Longer answer: I see that you have set your pronouns to 'private.' That is certainly your right to do so, and there are plenty of other options that you could use to specifically opt out of having pronouns stated. By not declaring your pronouns, that means that when people want to refer to you in th...

Nah.

When the three people who actually run the site are saying “it’s a request, not a rule” you can be pretty assured that it is a request, not a rule.

That said, it’s a thing that’s only happened in exceptional circumstances and it should ideally stay that way.

Yeah the easier approach would be to retroactively change the archive data to give them all the same artist name, although I'm not sure how that'll interact with the vote counts.

And even if there were (by using abstract file IDs instead of the band name as the vote key — which we really should be doing anyway!) there's still the issue of the listener knowing which of ten Goatfucker songs they're voting for. Having a number in the artist name is just easier for everyone.

John Cage's "4:33" contains four and a half minutes of complete silence. Does he own the copyright to silence? What if I released a digital cover of 4:33, and since it was produced digitally, it is truly silent. Now John Cage only owns the copyright to the silence in HIS recording of 4:33...