by eight6 » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:48 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by Stuck In The Eighties[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by tenohtwo[/i]
<br>Yeah, the MySpace promotional posts have become one of the most annoying types of spam on message boards. It's obvious, shameless self-promotion. I think it's fine if someone has their MySpace/band website link in their signature, but I can't tell you how many posts I've seen where the person claims "sorry I haven't been here for a while..been busy in the studio..been recording..busy with rehearsals..been on the road", etc. Who knows, maybe you are really busy, but I see that similairly-worded post all the time, and it's the perfect lead-in to plug a band's website.
I think it's just a case of free Internet promotion gone out of control. It probably doesn't even seem wrong for these bands who are trying to do this as a career. I don't mean to be rude to this guy, but half of his posts here are Darvoset posts. I'm sure there's a lot of us here that are musicians who'd rather spend our time talking about New Wave than promoting our bands. It's the difference between willingly taking a flyer from a rack in a record store, and finding one stuffed under the windshield wiper on my car.
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Totally agree. Like DJCraig said, it would be different if a guy who frequented this board a lot had a little side project going and wanted to give his pals a listen. This seems like a case of a guy who goes from one messageboard to the next.
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I can't blame Darvoset for being a shameless self promoter, I can however blame precedence for his belief that this is acceptable. At the very least it will be tolerated, so mission accomplished Darvoset!