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wondering what you think

~inquiry

I created a post late last week containing a link to a shared Google sheet containing links to songs I recorded in the past.. and then somehow, somewhere along the line chanced upon the "Guidelines" section of

the Midnight Pub manual

whose "Pure self-promotion" bullet point under "Don't" gave me pause. So I deleted that post this morning.

I mean, it wouldn't have been "pure" self-promotion. To me it's ancient stuff I thought others might find interesting/fun, and there's no financial aspect to it. But it occurred to me it could seem waaaaaaaaaay too self-centric for some.

What do you think?

(NOTE: I leveraged a Google Sheet because although I have a tiny web presence at so-called "NearlyFreeSpeech.net", recent notifications about being on the verge of running out of funds there, and not quite remembering how I put things there in the past had me looking for an "el cheapo" route... and since Google Drive files can become read-accessible to others via URLs, well....)

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~faiz wrote (thread):

The way I interpret that rule: they are asking people not to ONLY make posts that are self-promotive. You should be fine.

~johano wrote (thread):

On further thought, maybe self-host them on a Gemini capsule somewhere, a la Konpeito?

~ns wrote (thread):

My interpretation is that *pure* self promotion applies across *all* of your posts, and your posts certainly aren't purely self promotion!

~johano wrote (thread):

Noswaith dda, ~inquiry... well I for one am curious now :)

~dwaynan wrote (thread):

To me it seemed more like you were telling us what you did that day than like you were advertising your music. There's quite a difference, I think, between "I found some old tapes of mine in the attic -- do you want to hear them?" and "Check out my album!"