This is a music rating community. Because some of our mods are inclined to do so, we have moderated joining. If you try to join & are refused, you may contact a mod or tell us about it & see what happens. We make no promises. Once you have joined, you must post an application (listed below) & be accepted before posting or commenting elsewhere in the community.
The purpose of this is so that we might decide who we wish to talk music with, basically. We rate you on whether or not we want you in our club. Mostly, this is based on musical tastes. Some of our members may feel it's pointless to give you a straight answer, though, & tell you it is because you have a stupid haircut or can't recite James Joyce's Ulysses by heart.
The general idea is to get people who not only know music at a certain standard, but are also willing to learn about music. Ideally, the latter would be slightly more important than the former. If it doesn't fall out that way, feel free to write about us in your own journal. Other factors that should/will be considered when voting include the apparent intelligence of the applicant, who the applicant is friends with in the community, how active the applicant is likely to be, how unique or interesting the applicant is, & finally, whether or not the applicant can hook us up with free shit.
On your application, accepted members will vote "yes" if they want you in, "no" if they do not, & they will "abstain" if they don't care. It is entirely likely they will direct a challenge in your direction. Often, these take the form of "top five" questions. Honesty is generally the best policy, but humor is also acceptable, if you have the right challenger.
If you think the app is too long, you should have seen it before. If you don't get our suggested genres, you have taken this too seriously.
If you are accepted, this means you are seriously fucked up can vote & participate in the community. Please, do so often. If you never, ever participate, you might be silently removed from the community. This is because we hold on to archaic systems like a cowboy & his gun don't see any reason of clogging up various pages with lists of people who aren't around. If we remove you & you want back in, just re-apply. If you never participate, but we like you, you are more likely to be left alone.
The Application Process:
- Within 48 hours of joining, post an application. We hardly ever enforce this aspect, but sometimes we do. Just get the damned app posted in a timely fashion.
- Your entire application should be concealed within an lj-cut. Failure to do so will result in deletion & banning.
- We do not allow fake journals, unless they are clearly maintained by one of our loving members, like ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) liamtheuriner.
- A pre-coded copy of the application is provided. Use it, or you will probably get rejected for being stupid.
- We would love to see your divine, smiling face, or any photographs you would like to post. If you need image hosting go to http://www.photobucket.com or http://tinypic.com/.
- If there is a need to edit your application, you will be told repeatedly by our members. If someone mentions it, do it.
- Posting outside your application before acceptance to the community is strictly forbidden.
- Once voting has ended, you will be stamped accepted or rejected. 5 more yes votes than no votes is required for acceptance. (We had auto-acceptions for those from the old community, but we do not offer this any longer.) Voting ends when we get around to stamping you.
- We reserve the right to ban, reject, accept, or remove you for any reason we want.
- The mods can stamp applicants rejected or accepted regardless of the votes if they see fit, but will not likely do this unless extraordinary circumstances exist.
- Deleting comments or your application will get you banned.
- We will try to stamp you within 48 hours of your application's posting. Feel free to contact us if we fail to do so.
- Your application's subject line should read "i've never kissed a car before," or some humorous variant of it, or some other line from that song, or at the very least, have some token effort made to that effect. This is so we can exert power over you even before you have applied.
***here is the code for the application***
ctrl+c then v will make your life much easier.
If You're Accepted:
- It'd be ace if you promoted us on your user info page. We have banners & buttons you can use, but we would be just as happy if you just casually mention it in conversations or hold press conferences about it.
- When voting on applications, please make your vote clear. Bolding or putting it in the subject line is preferred, but it needs to be clear which way you are voting.
- Please, if you change your vote or vote in a reply to a comment, make sure to include the vote in the subject line for the comment so we don't have to dig for it.
- Once accepted, post whatever you want (within reason). Feel free to join in on the game. If you promote another community in here, please, promote ours in yours & let us know about it. If you don't, we'll delete your promotion.
- Do not ask underage applicants for any sort of naked photographs. I do not want this community deleted because some nosy mom sees you solicitiing her child.
- If you are removed for inactivity, you may reapply in two weeks.
- violalee maintains our layouts & such. All ideas, comments, criticisms, glowing uneartlhy praise should be directed at her.
If You're Rejected:
- Feel free to ask members why they have voted no if they fail to tell you why. Don't expect people to give you anything resembling a polite answer, though.
- You are allowed to reapply in two weeks, but try to wait until you think we'd actually want to see you again.
- Writing up a post about how you hate us will fail to make it past moderation queue. Don't waste our time.
- All trolls will be banned, so don't send your friends over with the intent of "showing us."
- Whining & complaining about how people were mean to you wastes both our time & yours. If you can't take the heat, don't bake pies in August.
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