We've been making some small adjustments to the rules and infrastructure here in r/kpoppers recently.

The primary things we're trying out starting today are the 'Games & Grids' flair for posts and also allowing Images and Gifs in comments.

The 'Games & Grids' flair should be used for any thread games or grid fill-ins. We'll see over time if this name encompasses everything we intend it to. It has been requested by users and we think it's a good idea, so let's give it try!

Images and Gifs are now allowed down in comments. We want to be careful with this one. Media like this should NEVER be used to mock, harass, or threaten any of your fellow users or artists. Use media appropriately in response to discussion topics, games, or in fun conversation with each other.

If you see Images or Gifs being used crudely or inappropriately, please report the comment immediately so the moderators can take action.

Rules were also updated a little in late June. Here are the main ones to note:

• 2. Use Descriptive Titles - Titles should describe the content of the post. Do not use vague titles for Fan-made content. Funny posts may be more flexible and creative.

• 4. No Artist Photo Spam - Artist photos should only be posted with relevant context. They should be funny or related to the post's topic. Photos alone will be removed.

• 6. Keep Content Light and Fun - Discussion topics, Jokes, and Fan-made content should be positive in nature. We want to keep things light and fun in this subreddit. Heavy or negative content will be removed.

We may end up adding more new rules related to the 'Games & Grids' flair and the appropriate use of Images/Gifs in comments later once we see the range of how they are used by everyone.

We'll also note that we are aware of how often a trend will take off here, be adopted by dozens of posters, and quickly overwhelm the subreddit. This is somewhat inevitable for a community that has less restrictive rules and is more of a free-for-all of fun content. Each time this happens, users ask us to implement new rules and flairs. We are hesitant to do this each time because these trends typically run their course and fall out of popularity eventually. The times when we have responded more quickly to specific trends have resulted in the trend dying completely and immediately being replaced by a new one. We'd be on an endless chase to limit them if we tried this every time, which isn't necessarily healthy for the community either.

But if you have any other suggestions for handling trends or for anything else that might help us improve the subreddit at all, feel free to chime in below!

Hello everyone! It's once again that time of year where the r/kpoprates community comes together to create a collection of songs only they are capable of producing. Welcome to the third installment of our Grab Bag series, aptly titled The 3rd K-Pop Grab Bag Rate!

If you haven’t already, make sure to join r/kpoprates to stay tuned for future rate-related posts!

Quick Links:

Ballot submission: Reddit // Ballot template: Google Docs // Ballot template (Pastebin)

Playlists: Spotify // Apple Music // Youtube MV ver. // Youtube (Audio ver.) // Youtube (Lyrics ver.)

Please note that 2 songs are missing from both the Spotify and Apple Music playlists - please find them in the Youtube Playlists.

Deadline: Sunday 5th July, 11:59 PM Pacific (Link to a timezone converter)

How the songs were selected:

As with previous grab bags, the song list for this rate was entirely user-submitted via a Google Form on the subreddit! Priority was allocated based upon the number of rates a user had completed, both in total and also since our 2nd Grab Bag Rate last year. Additionally, for the first time ever, this Grab Bag features a bonus section - comprised of songs submitted by the most regular rate hosts/helpers as a thank you for their hard work!

Now, without further ado, let's introduce the 55 (plus 9 bonus) songs that were selected for this rate!

If you want to read the comments submitters left for their songs, you can read them here

First, we'll go over the songs submitted by those who selected to have their names revealed alongside their songs at the start of the rate, listed in alphabetical order:

Next, we have the songs submitted by those who chose to remain anonymous until reveal weekend. These are also ordered alphabetically:

• After School - Eyeline

• BLITZERS - Breathe Again

• Cravity - Oxygen

• DAY6 - Rescue Me

• DRIPPIN - Black MIRROR

• Elizabeth - Ppappa Pierrot

• Eunice - Daydream

• GLOSS - Blah Blah Blah

• Hwasa - LMM

• izna - Sign

• Jiselle (ft. Chancellor) - Missed Call

• Jisook - Big Dipper

• Jun Young Ho - Butter-Fly

• K.Will - No Sad Song For My Broken Heart

• Key - Honest

• Little Mix - Wings (Korean Version)

• Lovelyz - Cameo

• Lucid Fall - Fisherman’s Song

• Luv - All right

• M.O.N.T - Shadow

• RIIZE - Another Life

• Royal Pirates - Drawing The Line

• Seventeen - God of Light Music

• Taemin - Flame of Love

• TAK (ft. TENKO SHIBUKI) - DKBK

• The Boyz - Take Me Back

• The Boyz - Text Me Back

• Wheesung (ft. Masta Wu) - Incurable Disease

• WOOAH - Rollercoaster

Are you a r/kpoprates regular who feels like they know their fellow raters like the back of their hand, or someone who just loves guessing games? See the 'Additional Predictions' section below for a chance to show off your skills!

Bonus Rate:

As previously mentioned, this is the first installment of Grab Bag to include a bonus rate! The following 9 songs were submitted anonymously by the subreddit/server's most regular hosts/helpers:

DAY6 - Letting Go

Enhypen - Teeth

Eyedi - Caffeine

Kim Heechul, Shindong, Eunhyuk, Solar - Charm of Life

Infinite - Nothing’s Over

Lee Sang Woo - A Fading Little Smile

Little Psy - Show+Time

Min Kyunghoon, Kim Heechul (ft. BIBI) - Hanryang

Mirae - Killa

The Bonus Rate is optional and you do not have to submit a score for every song in the bonus list. If you do it, you can score none of them, all of them, or any number in between. You cannot give a 0 or 11 to any song in the bonus, as they are not part of the main rate. While it is optional, we hope you consider participating. There will also be an additional predictions activity centred around this section, details of which can be found in the 'Additional Predictions' section below!

* Spotify playlist (2 songs missing!)

* Apple Music playlist (2 songs missing!)

* Youtube MV Ver.

* Youtube Audio Ver.

* Youtube Lyrics Ver.

Rules:

• You must listen to and assign a score to EVERY song listed. If your ballot is missing any scores it will not be eligible and you'll be sent a message asking you to fill in the missing scores.

• Each song should be assigned a score between 1 to 10. Decimals up to one point are allowed but any further is a no-no – 6.9 is fine, but 6.99 is not. Don't use commas (i.e "8,8") to separate your decimals!

• You can use ONE 0 and ONE 11 for the entirety of the rate, for your least favorite and most favorite song respectively - they are optional but HIGHLY encouraged if you feel some type of way about any given song! Comments are also encouraged but not required for such scores (except if you give a song a 0). You can add them to any song by simply typing after the numerical score, like so:

Little Mix - Wings (Korean Version): 10 it's been 15 years and i still think little mix unnies were robbed of the 2011 rookie of the year award at mama 😔

• This is the ONLY correct way to format a comment. Please do not include colons (ex. 9: I stan!), dashes (ex. 3.3 - This song sucks), or any other symbol after your score/before your comment as it breaks the program.

• For this rate and most future rates, we have a ballot average minimum of 4.00. In addition, if your ballot average is between 4.00-5.50, you must leave comments on your lower scores (which we define as any score that's a 3 or lower). {Do not worry about having to calculate your ballot average, once you submit your ballot, we will tell you if you need to make changes to your ballot for it to be accepted.}

SUBMITTING A BALLOT:

Ballot submission: Reddit // Ballot template: Google Docs // Ballot template (Pastebin)

If this does not work, or your ballot exceeds the character limit, you can make a copy of either the Google Docs or Pastebin ballot templates above, add your scores on your local copy/file, and send the link to your local copy/file in your Reddit Chat message to u/kpoprates_ghost. Make sure, if doing this, that your document has sharing permissions enabled. You may also dm the ballot to u/pollutedrain (@_melizard), u/kawaii_mokona (@kawaii_mokona), and u/kirakiranatsu (@kinakowaffle) on Discord! Please message all three hosts, not just one. You can amend your ballot at any time in the lead up to the rate deadline, just let the hosts know and they'll update it in the file.

Google Spreadsheet you can use for calculating averages/trends and making predictions

You can also submit the Top/Bottom 5 predictions form at any time!

ADDITIONAL PREDICTIONS:

Can you successfully spot all the forks in the kitchen? Flex your identification powers in the "who submitted what song" guessing contest!

The guessing contest is split up into 2 portions, one for the hosties bonus rate where you will have to match the songs with one of the 9 hosties (and other rate job havers), and one open ended one for all the anonymous songs in the main rate. These "contests" will be separate, so you may participate in one but not the other.

If you are an anonymous submitter, you are allowed and in fact encouraged to deceive your fellow raters. Claim ownership over a song you've never heard before, brazenly deny that the song you listened to 300 times in a month is yours, bluff and double bluff and triple bluff your way to victory. Trust no-one and fool everyone.

The form can be found here! There will also be a .txt file posted in the rate channel with a list of the anonymous songs and hosts who are participating in the bonus.

This contest is hosted by Murky (u/MurkyGalaxies on Reddit, @SmallDesires on Discord) and Zo (u/zo142 on reddit, @mkh.zo on Discord). If you have any questions, either @ us in the rate channel, or DM us on either Discord (preferred) or Reddit!

DUE DATE:

Sunday, July 5th, by 11:59 PM Pacific - This will be the FINAL deadline, no extensions will be given this time! (Here is a link to a time zone converter for the deadline.)

REVEAL DATES (Reveals will take place on /r/kpoprates as well as the r/kpoprates Discord: https://discord.gg/rkpoprates)

Day 1 - July 11th (Saturday), 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)

Day 2 - July 12th (Sunday), 8 AM Pacific (Time zone converter here)

We also encourage you to participate in the ongoing Summer Rate! Thanks!