By
GrantB
Sun May 22, 2005 1:58 am
Those links are NOT OK. Plastering your board with ads/stickies for your product is fine. It's great. We all want to see this place thrive and ads are cool but the links are not. Censoring the names of your competitors is borderline but it's Tutor's prerogitave and he doesn't want his board used to advertise his competition. The links are not cool though. It's like that insidious adware for Internet Exploiter that lets companies buy keywords on other peoples content.
As a contributor to the community, someone who generates free content in exchange for a place to discuss it, I don't appreciate having words (links) put in my mouth. It's rude and disrespectful. I didn't intend to communicate the link, but it's right there in my message, appearing as if it came from me, with no option for me to turn it off. It's especially annoying because it has no regard for context. If I say "turn up the bazz knob", it's going to give a link for bazz g-tar samps, which is not what I'm talking about. That kind of stuff makes all of us look foolish and desperate.
Also, is there anyone here who is unaware that this board is part of a commercial site that sells high quality tutorials and sample packs? C'mon. There's a point where agressive advertising becomes so invasive that it's counterproductive (makes people never want to buy or recommend your product) and this is it.
It's not bad enough for me to boycott, but it is enough to make me want to obfuscate my posts, and that's sad.
