Vinyl Me Please (store, exclusives, swaps, etc)

chrb98 said:
For the record, removing the pizza post was the only thing I did on the subreddit today - I didn't have a hand in any more comment removals, bans, etc.
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I'd like to argue this on the grounds that my post was not a complaint about VMP. It was a metaphor (well, analogy I guess). It was intended to lighten the mood, and I think the sub would be well served by turning into a pizza-dedicated sub. It'd take the pressure off the mods for a bit too.

I was just trying to help....😉👍
 
chrb98 said:
Yeah I mean that's definitely a fair point, and it's something I've considered too (and am still considering - the megathread is not the end-all be-all from now till the end of time, I and/or the other mods could revise our stance on it). But at the end of the day, /r/vinylmeplease is a relatively small subreddit - while the growth has been remarkable, and we do get 600k+ pageviews a month, we pale in comparison to even decently popular subreddits. If I make a post on /r/indieheads, it's not getting to the front page unless it garners a fair amount of upvotes, because hundreds of new posts are made daily and the front page is only 25 posts long. The VMP subreddit sometimes has ten to twenty new threads a day. Sometimes we go days without a new thread. So it goes. With smaller subreddits it's harder for the "good content rises to the top" functionality to work as well, because just about anything can rise to the top if it's been a few days since a post has been made. Which is why I think modding in those early stages is necessary. But again, you raise a fair point, and if the sub was a few magnitudes bigger, it'd probably run much closer to your suggestion
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You do a good job on there. I feel for the mods there in the same way I do for Pauly. Again, I feel they shouldn’t leave it up to unpaid forum reps to dole out their information and do their work for them. The lack of official emails/communication has been shocking.
 
@chrb98


Here is a super hot take question (and let me preface by saying I don't think you are trying to suppress negativity), and I know you are trying to make a space without VMP control- but what about flexing and doing the opposite? What if you hit up storf privately and made clear that a large portion of the subreddit is outraged, that it is growing, and is being fueled by their continued lack of attention?

What if you told VMP that your sub is suffering for their inaction and business practices, and maybe if they don't start addressing it that maybe mods post about the un-cooperation and VMP may have to rely on fb and twitter to maintain customer positivity?

Because hey let's be honest. Eventually this shitshow is going to hit r/subredditdrama. And eventually someone is going to write an article about VMP's disfunction. And at that point it is going to be near impossible to ever recover the goodwill of the sub and userbase for VMP.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
@chrb98And eventually someone is going to write an article about VMP's disfunction. And at that point it is going to be near impossible to ever recover the goodwill of the sub and userbase or VMP.
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I'm on the verge of making a post on my Instagram about the issues, and my outstanding orders.

I'm not the biggest account in the world, but ~7,500 followers isn't nothing, and I do get a ton of DM's for recommendations. I've recommended these guys in the past, and at this point it just makes me look like an ass if I tell some vinyl newbie that their service is actually good right now. Which sucks, because there are times when they've done really good (and as recently as Jazz Impressions of Japan and QOTSA), but since the migration it has been an unmitigated disaster and the radio silence from them is awful.

I can't think of their name, but the person who runs their IG is actually a cool dude/dudette. So I'd feel a bit bad putting them on blast but at some point they need to address the issues.
 
TheThinWhiteDuke said:
@chrb98


Here is a super hot take question (and let me preface by saying I don't think you are trying to suppress negativity), and I know you are trying to make a space without VMP control- but what about flexing and doing the opposite? What if you hit up storf privately and made clear that a large portion of the subreddit is outraged, that it is growing, and is being fueled by their continued lack of attention?

What if you told VMP that your sub is suffering for their inaction and business practices, and maybe if they don't start addressing it that maybe mods post about the un-cooperation and VMP may have to rely on fb and twitter to maintain customer positivity?

Because hey let's be honest. Eventually this shitshow is going to hit r/subredditdrama. And eventually someone is going to write an article about VMP's disfunction. And at that point it is going to be near impossible to ever recover the goodwill of the sub and userbase for VMP.
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Maybe banning Storf from the sub would be helpful? His presence is a lightning rod for anyone who feels wronged by VMP. Not only that, but the fact that VMP has an actual presence with an employee at his level on the sub every single day probably is not helpful for the sub in general, mostly because it makes that the place where people will angrily react instead of just emailing or going to one of the VMP official social media accounts.

And does anyone actually believe that Storf's presence is ONLY because he loves hanging out and talking about the releases with people? At what point does Storf grow a beard, a weird accent, start referring to himself as a jazzbo and telling everyone to smile more and spin a record? Is it at all believable that him using the sub to stoke the fires of FOMO is not something that comes up in his yearly reviews, at the very least?
 
forkandspoon said:
What lie? I didn't hear about this one.
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One of the members on the old forum suggested Experience Unlimited to Cam, he said he'd check it out. Then, months later, they do it and he says in the interview that he discovered the album because he thought the cover was cool while late-night browsing on Discogs. He was called out, said "sorry, he forgot" but they left the interview up with that lie in it. **edit:and deleted the record of the conversation with the forum.
 
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