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Do you check out self-advertisers?

Cryxan	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 4:37 AM We love to bitch about them, but do they keep doing it because it works? Some do it on a regular basis. To an extent, I can't blame people for trying to get their name out there, because if they're not in the Bin or the Picks, they don't show up anywhere. I gotta admit, sometimes I do go to their music page and download a track or two, but usually, something else has to catch my eye about the artist. Likewise, I frequently ignore an artist alogether if their posting is incoherent.
azhazhellfire	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 5:12 AM i only check out self advertisers when they ask once and dont keep bugging everyone. i've stopped going into the dm picks hip hop thread cus it makes me so angry looking at all those fools. most of them havn't checked anyone else out they just expect people to do it for them. see _thats_ how people should be getting feedback, giving it to others first. i understand the people who dont wanna be a part of the community but they should still be giving feedback to others. and those people _almost always_ return the favour. and i dont care what people say, you get more feedback the way i've said than you do when you self advertise.
theguppykillers	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 8:09 AM http://theguppykillers.dmusic.net " id="27517">the more you advertise the better chances you will get heard. yes it gets old looking at them and I am guilty of doing this to. but I cant blame people for doing it cause it is hard getting people to listen to your music when there is so many others doing the same thing as you are. so check out the guppy killers http://theguppykillers.dmusic.net
Expose	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 9:52 AM It depends. Randomtoxy advertized in every thread in DMusic when he was here. thelostprez just cursed in all caps. Not people that I will waste my bandwidth on. If they advertize properly, like only on the front page shoutbox, etc, I'll take a listen, since I know tons of artists are here and we don't even see them.
milladrive	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 11:15 AM Once in a while I check'em out. I guess, as with most of us, it depends on the presentation of the plug.
theguppykillers	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 12:03 PM yep
Svensta	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 1:33 PM I agree, it's how the promotion is handled. I usually check out people who promote in the site's Shoutbox (I mean, that's kinda what it is THERE for) I don't mind plugs in threads either, as long as they are somewhat clever, and the artist also contributes to the topic while doing so. I don't much look in those promo threads, though, and I never listen to those people, normally. I love digging into the news directory just to see all the articles which DON'T get to the frontpage, the promos in there are hysterical sometimes. I also enjoy when artists get emotionally upset cause they are promoting themselves and others on here tease or flame them about it
RyanS	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 2:29 PM lol I do that too, Sven
OmegaDaemon	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 5:03 PM hmmm, one reason why i don't self promote much is because i'm still a young soft fleshling in music, still learning how to crawl and squirm through the musical process. but it does help all the more with feedback because i can see in my own creations what are obscured in my own creative eyes. i do not get very much feedback, i do not self promote all too often and i do not swear in all capitals.... so it is very difficult to get noticed by the 'general public' here at DMusic....... and i am also not prone to griping about things in complaints or even starting threads. alas, there will be a time when i shall come out of the darkness of obscurity and into the blinding light of scrutiny.
azhazhellfire	Date: December 7, 2002 @ 5:07 PM now OD's last post was a good self advertiser, im now gonna check him out. hehe
icisnizz	Date: December 8, 2002 @ 1:28 AM I'm here more for the covo, fuck advertizing...people here listen neither the less. I like the way Dmusic's forums are. Sometimes there alien like but that makes this place all the better. Power to the people,
Number4	Date: December 11, 2002 @ 4:40 AM yeah, guess i would havn;t been here long so i havn;t yetbut i probably would

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