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You're an okay guy, but please stop mentioning bingo software constantly in almost every post you make. It's getting quite annoying. We know you write a bingo s

by point 18y ago

You're an okay guy, but please stop mentioning bingo software constantly in almost every post you make. It's getting quite annoying. We know you write a bingo software, but please stop marketing it all the time. It's like being at a party and there is a mattress salesman who always brings the conversation back to mattresses and how he got started, and how he found good deals and so on. At the party, one can walk away from that guy, here, unfortunately not. So, don't use this forum as a marketing tool for your bingo thing. Just talk normally, and if people want to know more about our product, they click your name.

patio11 18y ago
My apologies, that wasn't my intention. For one it would be rude. For two it would be stupid -- it is highly probable that precisely none of you are in my market. I am, typically, neither rude nor stupid. I am also typically surrounded by people who care very little about startups, software, and the like. So when I'm around other people who care about software, startups, and the like, I tend to mention our point of commonality a bit. The one I bring up most often is my own because a) I'm intimately acquainted with it and b) unlike my day job, I can talk about it without getting fired if I say too much. But I try to be a good citizen here. You may feel that I mention my software in almost every post. Memory plays funny tricks with us. I don't trust mine with anything important, so I checked with the indispensable external memory of searchyc.com, and it turns out that I've mentioned it about 18 times in the last 255 comments, which is about 7% or so. (Throw another 6 on the tally for other people referring to my software, if you care to.) Now I might be counting wrong, as I suck at it almost as bad as I do at remembering things, but I don't suck quite so badly that 7% is "almost every post". (Sidenote: this is my 256th comment? There should be a geekiversary for that.) Now I do try to keep my contributions to the community worth having me here. If you are to believe the last ~1800 ish times people pushed the "More comments like this one please!" button, I like to think I'm doing a halfway decent job. But I'll try to recalibrate due to your feedback. Say, what would it take to get you behind the controls of your very own gliding duck?
- point 18y ago
  Also factor in the times you say stuff like "in my business", or "in my area" without explicitely mentioning your software. Such statements seem to be you begging us to check your profile to see what your business is. Maybe just 7% of your comments are about your business, but imagine you are talking to a mattress salesman, and every 10th sentences he says is about mattresses or about his business. Is that not a bit annoying? I'm not saying what you are doing is wrong or that it does not fit the standards of the community. I'm just saying it annoys me personally. Nobody else maybe, just me. So I'm pointing it out to you, because it may also be annoying someone else, and if nobody mentions it, you won't be aware of this. For example, you original comment on this thread was funny and insightful. The followup comment about bingo software was not, it just seemed like marketing.
clintjhill 18y ago
Lighten up. He wasn't marketing. He was illustrating his point with his own experience.
- point 18y ago
  I'd love to, but I love my donuts!

by point 18y ago

patio11 18y ago

My apologies, that wasn't my intention. For one it would be rude. For two it would be stupid -- it is highly probable that precisely none of you are in my market. I am, typically, neither rude nor stupid. I am also typically surrounded by people who care very little about startups, software, and the like. So when I'm around other people who care about software, startups, and the like, I tend to mention our point of commonality a bit. The one I bring up most often is my own because a) I'm intimately acquainted with it and b) unlike my day job, I can talk about it without getting fired if I say too much. But I try to be a good citizen here. You may feel that I mention my software in almost every post. Memory plays funny tricks with us. I don't trust mine with anything important, so I checked with the indispensable external memory of searchyc.com, and it turns out that I've mentioned it about 18 times in the last 255 comments, which is about 7% or so. (Throw another 6 on the tally for other people referring to my software, if you care to.) Now I might be counting wrong, as I suck at it almost as bad as I do at remembering things, but I don't suck quite so badly that 7% is "almost every post". (Sidenote: this is my 256th comment? There should be a geekiversary for that.) Now I do try to keep my contributions to the community worth having me here. If you are to believe the last ~1800 ish times people pushed the "More comments like this one please!" button, I like to think I'm doing a halfway decent job. But I'll try to recalibrate due to your feedback. Say, what would it take to get you behind the controls of your very own gliding duck?

point 18y ago
Also factor in the times you say stuff like "in my business", or "in my area" without explicitely mentioning your software. Such statements seem to be you begging us to check your profile to see what your business is. Maybe just 7% of your comments are about your business, but imagine you are talking to a mattress salesman, and every 10th sentences he says is about mattresses or about his business. Is that not a bit annoying? I'm not saying what you are doing is wrong or that it does not fit the standards of the community. I'm just saying it annoys me personally. Nobody else maybe, just me. So I'm pointing it out to you, because it may also be annoying someone else, and if nobody mentions it, you won't be aware of this. For example, you original comment on this thread was funny and insightful. The followup comment about bingo software was not, it just seemed like marketing.

clintjhill 18y ago

Lighten up. He wasn't marketing. He was illustrating his point with his own experience.

point 18y ago
I'd love to, but I love my donuts!