# Music Creators Assemble!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-creators-assemble/979626>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [February 11, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-creators-assemble/979626 "2023-02-11T17:06:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-creators-assemble/979626/167 "2023-06-30T03:44:34Z")

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> [@xtenkfarpl](#):
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> For some reason moderators really don’t seem to like any explicit links in posts?

Nah, it’s a weird glitch in the board software. There are several workarounds, but the best summary of the issue I have found is this post courtesy of Dr, Strangelove:

> [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/170):
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> I’ve seen a few links to this thread from other threads, but the information is a bit scattershot, so I think it’s worth summarizing. The bug occurs because Discourse now sees a YouTube preview–that is, the inline video as compared to a bare link–as a “media item”. We don’t allow media items on this site for cost reasons, but in this case it’s a bug because the video is hosted elsewhere. And this is new behavior. Discourse takes a few seconds to convert a bare link into a preview. That is t…

Basically, it’s a glitch in how the board tries to store previews. If you manufacture what the board sees as a new URL that links to the video and get it in before the board generates a new preview, it works. As an example, here’s a link to your song “In My Robot State”, which I am fond of on first listen:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7z6-wgc5ar4/maxresdefault.jpg "In my Robot State") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6-wgc5ar4)

> [@xtenkfarpl](#):
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> Mediocre vocalist (but I can sing harmonies),

Hehe, I’m apparently a pretty good lead vocalist, but I basically can’t sing harmonies at all. I can’t do either and play my primary instrument without an insane amount of practice for each part.

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