So I asked Monstercat for permission...

[Wayward Vagabond]

Re: So I asked Monstercat for permission...

i have a secret permission

[rCaliberGX]

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I have a few secret permissions too,

scarhand

[Ohaider]

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i have gone around and asked individual members of monstercat like stephen walking, tristam, pegboard nerds, etc and they've all been pretty cool with it. Really cool that we got the WHOLE DAMN LABEL. Early christmas present

[justin_ator]

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You all have my secret permission to continue on with being fucking awesome and organize this monstercat thing

[blindreper1179]

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No. It's stupid. We're not Nintendo. We're not a business. We're not exclusivemania. "Oh hey we have this cool permission, but we're not going to tell anyone" You're essentially treating them better because they're more popular. I myself haven't heard any of these people, but that's not the point. 99%(apparently) of permissions we get, we tell about them automatically. But because they are more well known we're going to make a big deal about it? I understand in the slightest that they wanted a tournament or whatever, but you still could let the community know so they don't keep bothering them and maybe change their mind because they keep being bothered with the same damn question.

[GammaBlaster]

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who cares if the secret is out

people cant even chart dubstep/electro properly (outside of a couple of people here and there)

Challenge accepted.

[hi19hi19]

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No. It's stupid. We're not Nintendo. We're not a business.

So clearly because we're a NCO and not literally a business, we shouldn't be careful with our content- trying to build hype and please the userbase with surprise features. Okay...

"Oh hey we have this cool permission, but we're not going to tell anyone"

bmah and Xiz pretty clearly implied that they were going to tell everyone, but not yet.

You're essentially treating them better because they're more popular.

People make a bigger deal about permission from an entire record label with over 50 artists than they do about some Newgrounds artist with 3 songs.
Humans get excited about popular things- welcome to the real world.

99%(apparently) of permissions we get, we tell about them automatically.

Wrong. Whether a user posts their permission publicly has always been the user's choice, so long as the judge team knows.
Nearly everyone posts it publicly eventually because it's polite to do, but this is certainly not the first case of someone withholding knowledge of a permission until some special event.

EDIT- Actually now that I think about it I can use myself as an example here, I still haven't publicly posted that we have blanket permission from Zorsy. This wasn't due to any special event; I haven't posted it because I basically just forgot until now, but yeah. Nobody's crying that I haven't said we have permission despite a song from him being in the game. inb4 some smartass pretends to cry about it just to prove me wrong <3

But because they are more well known we're going to make a big deal about it?

How, in your mind, does something literally being a big deal (Monstercat is a big label, and we're making a deal with them) not warrant making a big deal about it?

you still could let the community know so they don't keep bothering them and maybe change their mind because they keep being bothered with the same damn question.

One person contacted Monstercat after they already gave permission, it's not like everyone on FFR suddenly flooded their inbox without the staff knowing.
The staff admitted their mistake in not somehow making sure other users didn't contact Monstercat- I would have been sneaky and said that Monstercat had denied permission and put that in the denied permissions thread, then surprised everyone later. But too late for that.

In summary your post is pretty much incorrect in every way. Good day.

[Poison-]

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I actually did post in the permission thread that I had gotten the Monstercat permission, but removed the post because we had decided to surprise everyone later about the tournament and the permission at the same time.

[ninjaKIWI]

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Blindreper do you even read?

[Herogashix]

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99%(apparently) of permissions we get, we tell about them automatically.

Look who thinks secrets don't exist.

[Coolboyrulez0]

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I'll def. be on stepping duty once the tourney drops

[Dynam0]

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I think it should be stated clearly in the song permissions guide or whatever that you should confirm the request you will send to an artist with a relevant member of FFR staff first. This would avoid potentially turning an artist off from having a weak request (I'm sure it still happens despite the template being well written), or the issue in this thread.

The only negatives with this are that a couple members of staff will have to read a PM here and there regarding requests (though with experienced people who acquire permissions, this probably wouldn't be an issue in the first place). Given this I think it's a valid thing to have this in the permissions thread.

[DefconZero]

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Ermahgerd monstercat. <3

[Jonlovesddr]

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when i opened this thread i was hoping and praying that we wouldn't get permission
fuck

[Poison-]

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Sorry to disappoint.