Hello r/MetalForTheMasses, we've got some announcements to make and some questions to ask you. Consider this post to be an open discussion with the mods (or at least myself) and if things go well, maybe we can expect more of these posts in the future!

Updated Rules

Previously we've had people express confusion over some of our rules and we realized it's been a few years since some of them were touched at all. We've modified a few of the subreddit's rules to come more in line with the type of content we hope to see on MftM including rules 1, 4, 5, and 6 which have all been points of confusion at one time or another.

Moderation

A lot of us have been operating on a sort of "maintenance mode" for a while or are coming back from breaks. After some productive discussions about the sub and the type of place this can be, many of us are now getting back into the game. As part of this, we've added a new moderator to the subreddit u/BurialatOrnans and may be expanding the team further in coming months.

Content

The chief complaint we see about the subreddit is the number of low quality posts that come across peoples feeds and we get it! We all use the sub too and it can be tiring or frustrating. Moving forward we're going to be holding content submitted to the subreddit to a higher standard and we ask that you do as well. If you see a post that you think is lacking, don't hesitate to report it, that immediately puts it on our radar. While there are a good number of us, we just can't be online to watch the sub all the time.

As part of us improving the quality of the sub, we will be bringing back the weekly recommendation threads every Wednesday. Additional ideas for sub events are always welcome and this would be a great place to propose them!

In a similar vein, the sub has now hosted 4 AMAs officially and at least 1 unofficially (thank you u/randomawesome for stopping to chat by the way) . We would love to host more, we've had massive bands like Inferi and Hellripper as well as underground modern classics like Demon Bitch and Angel Sword. What kind of bands would you want to see AMAs from? Would you like if we had subreddit "events" leading up to AMAs? Would you like subreddit events in general?

Thanks from the Mods

Over the past few years, the sub has grown to over 250k members. I'm not sure any of us expected it to grow this large when we first joined. You guys make this place what it is and seeing people engaging in respectful discussion or sharing underground music will always outweigh the bad parts of running this place.