Discord

The Talk of the Charts Discord is a public discord server which was founded by Tanooki on December 10, 2019. The Discord server is notable for being one of the very few Discord community servers with a main focus entirely on music charts. As of now, the Discord server has about 1,225 members, over 1,000,000 messages in all, and is an official Discord partner. The Discord is currently ranked #172 out of all music servers on the Disboard server listing in terms of number of members.

Currently, the Discord has 13 categories, 3 voice channels, 85 text channels, and 79 roles. Categories and channels count includes those which are restricted, such as the Discord staff chat channel. None of the channels are marked as NSFW. The Discord has a Medium verification level (meaning users must have had a Discord account for at least five minutes before being able to interact with the server). The Discord has a community-generated "Autoconfirmed" system (where a user must have interacted with the server at least some before getting access to the entire server) for security purposes. The Discord is also a level 2 discord server (it currently has 17 server boosts). The server has a region of US-West.

Official Description
The following is the official Talk of the Charts Discord description for partnership advertisements and server listings:

"Looking for a centralized place to discuss music charts? Talk of the Charts brings together music chart fans across the world to discuss music charts and projections, make long-lasting friends, and have fun through chart related games.

discord.gg/talkofthecharts"

Discord Rules
01. Please don't be rude. We don't tolerate any sexist/racist/homophobic/transphobic/etc. behavior. Exceedingly toxic refutations, such as ones over opinions on music or media in general, are in violation of the rule. This includes asserting that the other person is "factually/objective/obviously wrong" in a confrontational manner or stating/implying that they are of unsound/lacking mind. This also includes bringing up criminal charges or indiscretion to invalidate someone’s opinion on an artist or song or imply the listener is immoral.

02. No spamming. This includes random text, posting too many images, constantly pinging users or roles, and posting things irrelevant to the channel you're in.

03. Please don't post anything NSFW. This includes the obvious like porn and gore content, but also anything that would require a trigger warning. If you wish to discuss more serious, heavy topics, head over to #assign-a-role and type ".iam venting" to get access to our venting channels.

04. Long lists such as full 100-list charts are fine to post as long as you don't spam them and keep them in relevant boards.

05. Any illegal activity and/or trying to scam anyone equals automatic, permanent ban. This includes links to pirated music and leaked consumption data protected by copyright.

06. Please do not wish death upon celebrities, I don't care how awful of a person they are. Discussing chart impact of dead artists is okay (ex. songs like Wake Me Up and In the End returning to the hot 100) but discussing anything else ("if they died on a friday their songs would return higher", "when this person dies, the chart impact will be huge!") will not be tolerated, period.

07. Raids/Harassing other servers is not acceptable. Anyone found to be doing so, especially in TOTC's name, will be banned.

08. Administrators and moderators have the full right to kick or ban anyone for any reason. If you have any questions or concerns about a ban, feel free to DM a staff member.

Winter 2020: Origin and expansion
The Discord was created on December 10, 2019 with Tanooki as the founder, Lukas and bifket as administrators, and RIME and wailordfan as moderators. The Discord started off with a manual verification system and manual role assignments. There were about 100 members at the end of the year on the Discord, with the vast majority of the users coming from other music communities, mainly Pulse and Popheads. The Discord was minorly active, with a typical day in December getting less than 100 messages.

There were some minor staff changes in January. On January 4 smash was promoted to a moderator, and on January 14 RIME was promoted to an administrator, and bifket was demoted to a moderator. There were several improvements to the community game's aspect in January as well. On January 23, 2020 the channel called chart games (now called server games) was added. Games that were popular at the time include "guess the song based off of the chart run" and "Throwback Thursdays" (where one must guess the year of the chart based off of the chart's top 5). On January 30, 2020 rankdowns, places where people can rank songs based off of how much they like them and the songs are ranked based on the average ranking of all of the participants, were added. With more long-times users in the Discord, such as Johan, Morbid Corvid, and ayan thee stallion, a typical day in the Discord server in January had roughly 250 messages.

Compared to other months the growth of the Discord in February was quite slow. However, despite there not being many more members in the server, server activity more than doubled, with a typical day in February getting about 500 messages. However, February saw the creation of some more Talk of the Chart services. On February 23 the beta version of the Talk of the Charts forums was released. On February 24 the Twitter was created. snw was promoted to a Discord moderator on February 5. March was the weakest time of growth for the Discord, with no major changes in any of the Discord's aspects.

Spring 2020: Community involvement and promotion
The Discord was more aggressively promoted in late March. On March 24 the Discord was now up on some server listings (such as Disboard). The Discord was also promoted on the Twitter. Due to this aggressive promotion, the Discord became more active in April, with a typical day in April getting about 1500 messages on the Discord.

The Discord saw a huge boost in members on May 8 due to the infamous "Say So vs. Savage" incident involving Talk of the Charts Twitter and the Beyhive fandom. The boost was very huge (the number of members in the server almost doubled due to this alone). Because of that, 4 members, Spicy, Nick Perkins, Leah, and ayan thee stallion, were promoted to moderator, and smash was promoted to an administrator. On May 8, the Discord amassed over 10,000 messages. This shattered the previous record of total messages in a single day by over triple. Partnerships were added just a day later, on May 9. On May 26 the Discord reached 500 members.

The Discord made some several changes in June to its organization. A channel called "your creations" was created on June 1 for people who wanted to post creations which weren't personal chart. In addition, a role recognizing YouTubers was added on the same date. A restructure of the server organization occurred on June 7. Changes included moving the Games category below Charts, shuffling some stuff from Misc to General (such as venting and gaming), moving Misc to the bottom of the server, and separating the charts section into flagship charts, component charts, and genre charts categories. On June 10 Leah announced his experimental TOTC Chart, which would rank songs based off of the member's individual charts.

Fall 2020: Breakthrough to notability
On September 17 the server underwent a huge change to its system, where users had to be "autoconfirmed" to get access to the entire server. This was implemented solely for security purposes. Here's the official announcement made about it:

"Effective immediately, to help protect this server we are requiring that users become "autoconfirmed" before they can get access to the entire server. This would require having the "Autoconfirmed" role as one of your roles on this server. Before becoming autoconfirmed you will be restricted to posting in some specific sections of the server. You can become autoconfirmed by reaching level 4 on this server, and you will receive the Autoconfirmed role automatically upon reaching level 4. If you believe that you are eligible to become "autoconfirmed" but do not have the role, you can give yourself the role by typing in ".iam Autoconfirmed" in #assign-a-role (you must be eligible or else you can't get it!)."

The Discord grew a lot on size during the month of October, partially thanks to the feuds between the TOTC Twitter and ARMY (where ARMY found the TOTC Discord and were taking screenshots and posting them on the Twitter which increased the visibility of the Discord). On October 5 the server reached 1,000 members. The Discord became an official Discord partner on October 7, and the current vanity URL was made on that same day.

To help accommodate all of the new members coming in thanks to the increased visibility of the Discord both on the Twitter and via the Discord being a Discord partner, Dance, Rhythm And Blues, and Other Genres channels were added "in response to fans of the genres' desires" on October 7. A relaxed Food channel was added along with a Starboard (where people can pin the best messages on the server in a Starboard channel) on October 12. Streaming parties were added on October 13, adding both a Streaming Parties text channel and a Music voice channel.

Discord Staff
Main article: Discord Staff

Administrators

 * Lukas (administrator December 10, 2019 - September 3, 2020; owner September 4, 2020 - present)
 * RIME (moderator December 10, 2019 - January 13, 2020; administrator January 14, 2020 - present)
 * smash (moderator January 4, 2020 - May 7, 2020; administrator May 8, 2020 - present)

Moderators

 * ayan thee stallion (moderator May 8, 2020 - present)
 * bifket (administrator December 10, 2019 - January 13, 2020; administrator January 14, 2020 - present)
 * Leah (moderator May 8, 2020 - present)
 * Log (moderator August 9, 2020 - present)
 * Nick Perkins (moderator May 8, 2020 - present)
 * Remy (moderator June 22, 2020 - present)
 * Sailor Mars (owner December 10, 2019 - September 3, 2020; moderator September 4, 2020 - October 14, 2020; administrator October 15, 2020 - present)
 * snw (moderator February 5, 2020 - present)
 * Spicy (moderator May 8, 2020 - present)
 * Violet (moderator August 9, 2020 - present)
 * Zero (moderator June 22, 2020 - present)

Former Staff

 * wailord (moderator December 10, 2019 - unknown date)

Bots
Here is a list of all bots that TOTC uses on their Discord server:


 * .fmbot
 * Carbon
 * carl-bot
 * Chino
 * chuu
 * Disboard
 * Discord.me
 * DiscordServers
 * FMcord
 * Mee6
 * Miso Bot
 * Nadeko
 * Rythm
 * Simple Poll
 * Tatsu
 * Vortex

Channels
Date in parentheses indicates the creation date of the channel.

* = available only to Autoconfirmed users ** = available only to users with a certain role *** = available only to staff members ^ = voice channel

Talk of the Charts
 * Rules (December 10, 2019)
 * Announcements (December 10, 2019)
 * Totc News (April 9, 2020)
 * Staff Intros (January 19, 2020)
 * Partnership (April 29, 2020)
 * Welcome (March 11, 2020)

Staff
 * Staff Chat (December 10, 2019)***
 * Bot Moderation (March 5, 2020)***
 * Staff Forums (September 7, 2020)***
 * Mod Log (April 17, 2020)***
 * Timeout (September 13, 2020)***
 * Info (September 19, 2020)***
 * Reddit Chat (September 8, 2020)***

General
 * General (December 10, 2019)
 * Introduction (December 12, 2019)
 * Assign A Role (December 11, 2019)
 * Suggestions (December 10, 2019)
 * Cultural Vents (June 21, 2020)**
 * Personal Vents (March 4, 2020)**
 * Text To Voice Channel (July 26, 2020)

Flagship Charts
 * Hot 100 (December 10, 2019)
 * Global 200 (September 14, 2020)
 * BB 200 (December 10, 2019)
 * Projections (December 10, 2019)
 * Projection Chat (May 12, 2020) *
 * 2020 Year-End (September 3, 2020)
 * International Charts (December 10, 2019)

US Components & Genre Charts

Misc Music

Other Media

Server Games

Rankdowns

TOTC Madness

Archive

The TOTC Awards

Parternerships
Parternerships were created on May 1, 2020 and it involves other music related servers that have partnered with Talk of the Charts.

Here's a list of partners that Talk of the Charts currently has (date in parentheses indicates when the partnership occurred - click on the links to get an invite to the server!):


 * TrotMania Outpost (May 9, 2020)
 * Xtina Daily (August 7, 2020)
 * KARMA (August 15, 2020)
 * Lady Gaga(August 24, 2020)
 * Post Malone (August 27, 2020)
 * ToveHeads (September 1, 2020)
 * barbland (October 9, 2020)
 * The Totem Pole 4: Pandora's Box (October 21, 2020)