At 1/8/24 02:12 PM, lambchopsandwich wrote:created a song in fl using the piano roll and the bot put my account on hold because apparently it copied another song i never heard of. the appeal has been closed and my account is still locked from uploading music so i dont know what to do

At 12/20/21 05:54 PM, Pingu wrote:Hi there!

You're upset that one of your songs was flagged by our scanning program, and want to come ask about it. To consolidate all the little threads which float in Where is/How to and Audio forums, we've created a collective spot to dump your grief.

To keep things moving along, make sure you have done the following FIRST:

If you meet the above criteria AND it has been a few days since you filed the appeal (greater than 3), post your case here and we'll look into it.

Keep in mind, we are sorting through all the appeals manually which takes time to do properly for all parties involved. This process can be hampered by not providing supporting material at the outset.

Be polite.

At 1/14/24 06:49 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Hello! I was recently unscouted for “scouting artists with stolen music”. The last thing I recall the only thing I feel like I have done wrong is scout artists with a low amount of submissions. [...] I know better than to scout people with stolen music, and I feel like I deserve a second chance.

At 1/14/24 07:07 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:

At 1/14/24 06:59 PM, Pingu wrote:

At 1/14/24 06:49 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Hello! I was recently unscouted for “scouting artists with stolen music”. The last thing I recall the only thing I feel like I have done wrong is scout artists with a low amount of submissions. [...] I know better than to scout people with stolen music, and I feel like I deserve a second chance.

Since I mentioned it on reddit, just gonna consolidate these:

via reddit: (you wrote) I haven’t been scouting people with stolen music???

Disagree

Usually I have done this, because the song sounded high quality, and I liked it a lot.

You must have searched for and scouted a bunch of people with any reference to the term "fire in the hole" as they all had issues and were 1) low quality and 2) the only submission the users had.

One submission does not meet the criteria to offer people audio portal membership, as you can't get a sense of their actual ability (and even less when most of those had a bunch of meme clips in it).

Your scout privilege is gone. You remain a member of the audio portal and can share music, but will not be able to invite others.

Again, I also disagree. I clearly didn’t read the description. I’m dyslexic.

At 1/14/24 07:31 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:

At 1/14/24 06:59 PM, Pingu wrote:

At 1/14/24 06:49 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Hello! I was recently unscouted for “scouting artists with stolen music”. The last thing I recall the only thing I feel like I have done wrong is scout artists with a low amount of submissions. [...] I know better than to scout people with stolen music, and I feel like I deserve a second chance.

Since I mentioned it on reddit, just gonna consolidate these:

via reddit: (you wrote) I haven’t been scouting people with stolen music???

Disagree

Usually I have done this, because the song sounded high quality, and I liked it a lot.

You must have searched for and scouted a bunch of people with any reference to the term "fire in the hole" as they all had issues and were 1) low quality and 2) the only submission the users had.

One submission does not meet the criteria to offer people audio portal membership, as you can't get a sense of their actual ability (and even less when most of those had a bunch of meme clips in it).

Your scout privilege is gone. You remain a member of the audio portal and can share music, but will not be able to invite others.

At 1/14/24 07:44 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:

At 1/14/24 07:41 PM, Pingu wrote:

At 1/14/24 07:33 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Will I be able to become scoutable again if I create a new account? Is that allowed or is that ban evasion?

Going around consequences can lead to account termination.

I’m trying my best to comply with these unnecessarily strict audio guidelines and restrictions.

I don't see how this was unnecessarily strict? Your account scouted bad stuff, and had consequences. There risk to sharing accounts online.

This ban was unjust.

You aren't banned. Take some time to chill a bit. I have to tinker on your profile a bit to fix something so you may get some notifications.

At 1/14/24 07:49 PM, Pingu wrote:

At 1/14/24 07:45 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Wait, what do you mean tinker? Can you elaborate what youre doing

Your ability to scout others was revoked (intentional) but it also knocked you out of the scouted audio section (unintended, in this case). That could be a bug which I've passed up to the admin.

At 1/14/24 07:09 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:This is also a shared account between me and my brother. It’s likely that he has been doing things against my consent while not having read the audio guidelines. He’s also 2 years younger than me, and he’s on serious GD brainrot right now

I AM NOT lying when I say this is not my fault in the slightest

At 1/15/24 02:15 AM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/14/24 07:09 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:This is also a shared account between me and my brother. It’s likely that he has been doing things against my consent while not having read the audio guidelines. He’s also 2 years younger than me, and he’s on serious GD brainrot right now

I AM NOT lying when I say this is not my fault in the slightest

I would strongly suggest you make your brother get his own account, change your password, and log out of all your sessions. Get 2-FA while you're at it.

He has likely been using yours to get rule breaking content into GD. It's an addiction. People will lie, cheat and steal, anything for the dopamine.

Explain to your brother too that it takes a lot more than being scouted on NG to get into GD. Now you need that AND to be put on the white list by the GD elder mods. Basically if you weren't grandfathered in prior to the whitelist updates, it can take months if not years, maybe even never, all thanks to people acting exactly like your brother and his favorite uploaders.

At 12/20/21 05:54 PM, Pingu wrote:Hi there!

You're upset that one of your songs was flagged by our scanning program, and want to come ask about it. To consolidate all the little threads which float in Where is/How to and Audio forums, we've created a collective spot to dump your grief.

To keep things moving along, make sure you have done the following FIRST:

If you meet the above criteria AND it has been a few days since you filed the appeal (greater than 3), post your case here and we'll look into it.

Keep in mind, we are sorting through all the appeals manually which takes time to do properly for all parties involved. This process can be hampered by not providing supporting material at the outset.

Be polite.

At 1/15/24 01:33 PM, Icebberg76 wrote:hi, I went to upload a song named vortex, a song i had previously made and released on Spotify before, only to get hit by my own copyright. if i need to somehow prove that Spotify account is mine, I'd be willing to do so, I've always considered my Newgrounds account my main music platform

At 1/17/24 07:09 AM, MilkiShow wrote:I didn’t even have time to post the track and I was banned for who knows when. I made a wretched effect on "bad piggers drip" and I don't know what to do. This account is very dear to me. A year has passed and I still haven’t been unbanned and I can’t delete the track.

At 1/14/24 07:49 PM, Pingu wrote:

At 1/14/24 07:45 PM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Wait, what do you mean tinker? Can you elaborate what youre doing

Your ability to scout others was revoked (intentional) but it also knocked you out of the scouted audio section (unintended, in this case). That could be a bug which I've passed up to the admin.

At 1/18/24 01:10 AM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/18/24 12:56 AM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Have the admins done anything yet? I’m not trying to sound impatient by the way

The last action on your account was to revoke your scouting privileges, but it looks like that also removes your scouted status, as mentioned. This may be an oversight, as usually we don't have an issue of an otherwise rule-abiding user having poor choices in scouting others. Oversights like these can take a while to fix.

I have the ability to either scout you or reset your status -- which does essentially the same thing in this situation, but I would refer to @TomFulp or @Exedor before doing so, as they were the last to address your case.

At 1/18/24 02:10 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 1/18/24 01:10 AM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/18/24 12:56 AM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Have the admins done anything yet? I’m not trying to sound impatient by the way

The last action on your account was to revoke your scouting privileges, but it looks like that also removes your scouted status, as mentioned. This may be an oversight, as usually we don't have an issue of an otherwise rule-abiding user having poor choices in scouting others. Oversights like these can take a while to fix.

I have the ability to either scout you or reset your status -- which does essentially the same thing in this situation, but I would refer to @TomFulp or @Exedor before doing so, as they were the last to address your case.

Scouting privileges were revoked due to a moderate percentage of his scouts being pruned. Use better judgement, I guess...? It doesn't look like this user was de-scouted, tho. I see a system ban a while back. @TomFulp will have to put an eye upon it.

At 1/18/24 02:30 AM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/18/24 02:10 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 1/18/24 01:10 AM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/18/24 12:56 AM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Have the admins done anything yet? I’m not trying to sound impatient by the way

The last action on your account was to revoke your scouting privileges, but it looks like that also removes your scouted status, as mentioned. This may be an oversight, as usually we don't have an issue of an otherwise rule-abiding user having poor choices in scouting others. Oversights like these can take a while to fix.

I have the ability to either scout you or reset your status -- which does essentially the same thing in this situation, but I would refer to @TomFulp or @Exedor before doing so, as they were the last to address your case.

Scouting privileges were revoked due to a moderate percentage of his scouts being pruned. Use better judgement, I guess...? It doesn't look like this user was de-scouted, tho. I see a system ban a while back. @TomFulp will have to put an eye upon it.

He shows as unscouted on my end. I can't ever remember a case like this, where pruning revoked scouting. Could potentially have been an accident with an update somewhere along the way and never needed to be looked at until now. If @TheSweaterCinderace is willing to pinky swear they won't scout any miscreants in the future and only scout good ole law abiding portal users from here on out, I'm fine with scouting them again, personally. We all make mistakes.

At 1/18/24 02:10 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 1/18/24 01:10 AM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/18/24 12:56 AM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Have the admins done anything yet? I’m not trying to sound impatient by the way

The last action on your account was to revoke your scouting privileges, but it looks like that also removes your scouted status, as mentioned. This may be an oversight, as usually we don't have an issue of an otherwise rule-abiding user having poor choices in scouting others. Oversights like these can take a while to fix.

I have the ability to either scout you or reset your status -- which does essentially the same thing in this situation, but I would refer to @TomFulp or @Exedor before doing so, as they were the last to address your case.

Scouting privileges were revoked due to a moderate percentage of his scouts being pruned. Use better judgement, I guess...? It doesn't look like this user was de-scouted, tho. I see a system ban a while back. @TomFulp will have to put an eye upon it.

At 1/18/24 02:30 AM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/18/24 02:10 AM, Exedor wrote:

At 1/18/24 01:10 AM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/18/24 12:56 AM, TheSweaterCinderace wrote:Have the admins done anything yet? I’m not trying to sound impatient by the way

The last action on your account was to revoke your scouting privileges, but it looks like that also removes your scouted status, as mentioned. This may be an oversight, as usually we don't have an issue of an otherwise rule-abiding user having poor choices in scouting others. Oversights like these can take a while to fix.

I have the ability to either scout you or reset your status -- which does essentially the same thing in this situation, but I would refer to @TomFulp or @Exedor before doing so, as they were the last to address your case.

Scouting privileges were revoked due to a moderate percentage of his scouts being pruned. Use better judgement, I guess...? It doesn't look like this user was de-scouted, tho. I see a system ban a while back. @TomFulp will have to put an eye upon it.

He shows as unscouted on my end. I can't ever remember a case like this, where pruning revoked scouting. Could potentially have been an accident with an update somewhere along the way and never needed to be looked at until now. If @TheSweaterCinderace is willing to pinky swear they won't scout any miscreants in the future and only scout good ole law abiding portal users from here on out, I'm fine with scouting them again, personally. We all make mistakes.