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"People who suffers from sleep disorders, here is your cure. You will fall asleep as soon as you listen to the first track. ZZZZZZzzzzzzz"

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Was he contrib before this happened?

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They used to make anyone contrib a few years back. All you had to do was have a certain amount of reviews.

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They used to make anyone contrib a few years back. All you had to do was have a certain amount of

reviews.



Thank god we don't do that anymore!

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That's why we end up with contribs with less than 20 reviews.



(Sidenote: That's not a jab at any contribs with less than 20 reviews, but it shows how times have

changed)

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Yeah it's much better the way it is now.

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A lot of those guys are actually very skilled writers, but I prefer a 30 review minimum for my contribs. I need to see consistency.

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I believe in Quality over Quantity, but I haven't seen half of them review much since their promotion.

I'd go for contrib if I got dibs on new releases quicker. As for dethrasher, thrashtildeath said it best, he was just narrow-minded. If you read some of his other reviews he usually comes off that way, with lots of his criticisms stemming from heaviness or whatever.

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I haven't seen half of them review much since their promotion.



It always seems to work that way. It's even worse when it gets to the staff level. I know life

circumstances always come up and should always take priority, but to some extent I feel like ppl stop

trying when they have nothing more to aspire for. Like, a contrib trying to get staff will do a

great, consistent job - same thing while fresh off the high of promotion to staff - but then fall into

a rut. The same thing started happening to me, even before real life started getting in the way. But

being away from Sputnik for most of the past year recharged me a bit.

I've often noticed that, lots of contribs get their position, review consistently for a while, and then drop off the map putting up on review every once in a while (every month or whatnot).

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One time somebody got staffed after like 4 reviews but I forget who.

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Casablanca, and it was 8.

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also, how can I get "dibs" on new releases? Nothing More, Anberlin, Rise Against are just some recent albums that I write for but I'm not the first one to do so. Not like that matters.

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What do you mean by dibs Green Baron?

I guess, but I feel like that would help my case. But, I mostly focus on smaller punk rock acts in my ratings, still need to review a ton of stuff actually relating to that.

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To be the first one to review it, because I think that's always the most "notable" review and no one gives a shit about the ones that follow.



See, that's one happens when you try to let the album really sink it and take time with your writing. But I digress.

Yeah that's why I'm always late, plus I don't really stream albums the day they're released for the most part.

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I do, but I don't want to rush the album or review.

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If you take your time with your review and make it really good, it will get flagged over the other

shitty rushed write-ups. Then anytime someone clicks on the album, yours will appear and you'll end

up being the one who gets the most exposure (in the long run, at least). As a user I used to be

tempted to rush out reviews to get exposure/flagged/featured but eventually I realized it's much more

important to just do a good job. Outside of that, there's nothing you can do until you get to the

staff level and actually can dib a release.