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[Caution: contains strong language.] I can't believe I'm the only one who considers advertising as an active negative signal. That is, if you're pushing ads, y

by bostik 4y ago

[Caution: contains strong language.] I can't believe I'm the only one who considers advertising as an active negative signal. That is, if you're pushing ads, you are loudly telegraphing that your offering is not good enough to be discovered organically, and is therefore shit. Paying for so-called influencers is even worse: if you do that, you are - and there's no kind way of putting this - paying for others to whore their opinions on your behalf. If you want to make your wares visible in my sphere, find ways to make these appearances interesting, original, inventive and sufficiently unobtrusive. If you can't, tough. Take your toxic waste where it belongs.

whimsicalism 4y ago
You're not the only one - I generally also considering advertising a slight negative signal (although not for the reasons you describe.) I just assume there is some other lower cost competitor that spends less money on advertising and returns the margin to me.
davidivadavid 4y ago
So basically all products are shit. Gotcha. Seems like a sound model. "If you want to make your wares visible in my sphere, find ways to make these appearances interesting, original, inventive and sufficiently unobtrusive" Yeah, that's also called advertising. Sorry.
- bostik 4y ago
  Right, I should have tried to inject relevant nuance into my original post. Without trying to be pedantic, I make a distinction between "advertising", and more generic "promotion" activity. A well done piece of intelligent material, in any form, that happens to allow voluntary discovery of something related to the matter at hand is fine. Anything that disturbs or disrupts the flow and tone of the aforementioned material is not. On the other hand, I do appreciate the snark here: So basically all products are shit. Gotcha. Seems like a sound model. You're not too far off. The rule of thumb I apply to this world is that 90% of everything is crap.[ß] And that rule is recursive. Acceptably decent things are rare exceptions and outliers. ß: Including me.

by bostik 4y ago

whimsicalism 4y ago

You're not the only one - I generally also considering advertising a slight negative signal (although not for the reasons you describe.) I just assume there is some other lower cost competitor that spends less money on advertising and returns the margin to me.

davidivadavid 4y ago

So basically all products are shit. Gotcha. Seems like a sound model. "If you want to make your wares visible in my sphere, find ways to make these appearances interesting, original, inventive and sufficiently unobtrusive" Yeah, that's also called advertising. Sorry.

bostik 4y ago
Right, I should have tried to inject relevant nuance into my original post. Without trying to be pedantic, I make a distinction between "advertising", and more generic "promotion" activity. A well done piece of intelligent material, in any form, that happens to allow voluntary discovery of something related to the matter at hand is fine. Anything that disturbs or disrupts the flow and tone of the aforementioned material is not. On the other hand, I do appreciate the snark here: So basically all products are shit. Gotcha. Seems like a sound model. You're not too far off. The rule of thumb I apply to this world is that 90% of everything is crap.[ß] And that rule is recursive. Acceptably decent things are rare exceptions and outliers. ß: Including me.