Changes to Commercial Announcements

Trying to get into the nuance of this new system now from the perspective of regular forum members who post up on deals that they find in their email boxes or in their travels around The Internetz.

Someone who has no affiliation with a music software publisher or derives no financial benefit where do they post up the deals they wish the community to see? It is not clear to me. There are qualifying statements about who can publish deals where if you are a developer/publisher but for an **uncompensated enthusiast, where do they post up deal information? If they are relegated to the Tier 2 forum then some people may think said software publisher is not paying for ads when in fact they could be but the perception is they are not. This could be bad for their business in the long haul.

**Uncompensated in my mind would exclude people who are dispensing affiliate links, getting NFRs/swag from said company or money for promoting the product.

rrichard63 said:

A few weeks ago, I posted a question about a brand new product with an introductory price that had not appeared in Commercial Announcements. I forget whether I put it in Sample Talk or Deals, Deals, Deals. A moderator moved it to Commercial Announcements, even though I'm not a publisher of anything.

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heisenberg said:

Trying to get into the nuance of this new system now from the perspective of regular forum members who post up on deals that they find in their email boxes or in their travels around The Internetz.

Someone who has no affiliation with a music software publisher or derives no financial benefit where do they post up the deals they wish the community to see?

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Post wherever you want. No need to over-think it. If it's in the wrong place, we'll move it. Easy. No harm, no foul.

I should mention that there have *always* been fuzzy lines about which forum for any given thread, even when all we had were Sample Talk and Commercial Announcements. The general rule was that if it's the company who's posting, then it's a commercial announcement. If it's a member who's posting, it goes in Sample Talk.

But ... that started working against the honest companies who had their discussion in the CA threads, while the companies who would wait it out (or more annoyingly, use surrogates) would see their discussion in the more popular Sample Talk forum. So we move topics all the time. Nothing new there.