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Hbthebattle posted...

If you hate when popular songs get nommed late, that's worse when locks aren't involved before formerly safe songs can be dropped.

i think i get what you're maybe saying here, you don't like my current idea of what should be treated as "safe" with just 16+ and 32+ songs each day, and that it'd protect only popular (especially penultimate day bandwagoned) songs rather than actual bubble ones? it's a difficult matter to find a good balance for and as mentioned i hadn't given it considerable thought yet... having said that, lock system is honestly even more vulnerable to mainstream songs getting rallies since the criteria for getting in is literally just "first x number of songs to get bandwagon get in" and wanting the entire field to be done that way (again) is just torture to me. as mentioned by others all it actually achieves is setting it so people can be less prepared for the still completely inevitable late rush, giving agency (over last minute bandwagons and over metagaming the bulk of the field at the most critical point) exclusively to those who happen to be free at the time and at the expense of those denied a realistic way to plan around it. sure it wouldn't be as flat out horrible as last year's situation with people being misled that it still wouldn't lock up to mere hours before it all did (also obligatory shoutouts to those who lied about songs they didn't want in being locked in the end rush so nobody would bother i still can't believe that happened, even if i can sympathise with trying to reduce the agency of those like me who were also around during the end from pushing them it was also super scummy in its own right and can absolutely be abused to further screw over those not present too), but i don't think for even a second that it's any more fair than having an actually set end time that everyone is able to plan around in advance

i'm not opposed to the theoretical "lock" system mind you where there are just several periods where the top say 32 songs each day or so get locked in till it's all filled up, it would also help spread out the rush so it's not all just 1 critical point (it'd probably have to be after an early nom period similar to this one though with a break before things can be locked tbh)