Message 12/33
Date: 17-Nov-01 @ 01:00 PM -
RE: This one's needs cranking...
milan - things are a LOT better nowadays. i don't think i've seen you here but for the last year, but around 99 this was some serious crap..
you see.. back in 99 mp3.com was trying to get as many tracks as they could, so their pay4play stuff didn't need to you to do anything except add tracks, get 'em played, and they'd send you a big fat check. i put absolutely no effort into it and got one of my gas bills paid.
the result of this was that anyone who *did* advertise was bound to make several hundred dollars just off casual browsers.. so you had all these cats making the most appallingly vapid tracks.. anything that sounded vaguely trancelike.. after all.. most people couldn't tell the difference between someone who is struggling to refine their art and someone who is using acid or just on the take.. uploading them to mp3 and then blanketing the net in ads.
it did become rather annoying.. for one thing.. you were bound to receive a minimum half a dozen solicitations to this end in your email.. some of which included sizeable html content (loads of us were - i still am - on tiny likkle connections so this was a pain..) and you'd get loads of threads on it as well. sometimes half the posts were from people looking for cracks of acid so they could cash in too. people woh didn't even like electronic music were doing it.
i am not exaggerating! it was a fucking crime how people were just spamming and spamming and spamming and...
but it has changed a lot.. mp3.com changed their policy, now no one gets free money unless you work for it or have the impetus behind you to keep it rolling. it ain't like it was at all. and influx does go on with the netiquette nanny thing.. AND i believe our pal here is quite likely* (* i did say likely, not absolutely definately) just trying to drum up a few more downloads, which takes the extra effort nowadays. it was so fucking disgusting that afaic it deserves the full brunt of even the most misdirected aggression to be crushed out forever. but go look at his page why don't you.. couple of thousand listens.. stuff like "you will cry the tears of ecstasy to this newest dance smash" - doesn't exactly ring of someone sincerely looking for some constructive feedback, does it matey?
anyway.
and that was the story of "influx and the repetitive defensive posting syndrome" which will help you to understand why influx is actually acting sensibly, insofar as his sensory experience differs from your own
and we can all go on and live happily ever after the end.