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Originally Posted by lucey  As for the idea of "spam" Robot, you have a narrow and vindictive defintion at work here. We could all easily call 'spam' on the advice and opinions made in many other threads by each of the more venomous posters in this thread, yet I accept that some element of self-promotion and clique promotion is par for the course on the forums. My Mic is best, my Pre Amp best. I like my ME best. I defend my friend the ME because he's in my clique and that's good for us all. I dont bother with negative emotions/police work when these posts come up, and they are everywhere. Some people are more subtle about self-promotion, but it's all the same thing, and it's totally fine with me. It could also be seen as enthusiam, friendship, sharing, taste, or a host of other things. There are many ways to look at it thaty dont require definitive assumptions and personal bashing. |
Look, I've never criticised you before, and will never do so again if I don't see behaviour like this.
How's this for a definition of 'spam': an unsolicited promotion of your
own services and going so far as to mention how much you'd charge.
So if we were talking about a piece of gear it would akin to saying 'try this thing vs what the original poster is so happy about, this is the sound of it and you can buy it at my shop for $xxxx.'
That's not tolerated from the gear pimps most of the time, and personally I think they could excercise more restraint also. It shouldn't be tolerated from anyone else. My advice is to bite the bullet on this one and just excercise more restraint in the future.
Sorry for being so impolite on this thread.