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with all due respect, no one tried to politely or civilly explain the rules of etiquette (which I totally would have been cool with)
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Allow me.
This was orioginally posted to somebody else, but I feel it is appropriote for you too, I hope you deem it "civil" enough.
I fail to see what your problem is.
ANY other forum would've had the same overall reaction.
It doesn't matter how good what you're attempting to show us happens to be - Just because you CAN get some kind of free advertising for your product here doesn't mean you should simply be able to come in here and take advantage of that, without contributing to the forum in any other way.
MANY people have advertised their sites and wares in here with out a problem, kpro, vodstok, and thesoundofdirt to name but a few...
WHY? Because advertising wasn't their sole purpose for being here. In fact, these guys knew everyone pretty well before even posting a thing about their respective sites..etc, they have contributed, and actually bothered to engage some of us in conversation.
If you don't have the common courteousy to at least TALK to us, that's like a complete stranger coming up saying something like...
"oh hey, I'm gonna throw a party in your house, and you can fuck off for all I care, loser, because I don't really much give a fuck about anything other than your exploitation."
As you can imagine, this would not go down well anywhere else, and that is basically what you have attempted to do here - so don't complain about the negative reaction, you should know better.
Proper etiquette should be afforded to everyone, no matter the environment. If you cannot comply with this, do NOT expect a "welcome wagon", because you will NOT be welcome.
If you're going to stay, for somthing OTHER than your attempt to establish your moral high ground over us, based on ignorance and/or our initial reaction to you...then I sugest that you GET OVER IT, get posting and show us that you're here to do more than exploit our community.
If not, then you should probably just leave.
PEACE.
- B.