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Your song is a dead ox. Be the CIA.

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Re: Your song is a dead ox. Be the CIA.

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This is a cool service, but submitting the link like this is horrible horrible blogspam. I felt scammed when I realized it was just advertorial. Post the link to the service directly instead.

Understood - I'm really trying to figure out the right mix of valid information with advertisement for the service. For what it's worth, this post was an honest account of our motivations in making this.

Re: Your song is a dead ox. Be the CIA.

#4

This is a cool service, but submitting the link like this is horrible horrible blogspam. I felt scammed when I realized it was just advertorial. Post the link to the service directly instead.

Understood - I'm really trying to figure out the right mix of valid information with advertisement for the service. For what it's worth, this post was an honest account of our motivations in making this.

I have no problem with that, but I think you should say as clearly as possible early on that it's a product pitch.