Re: [LAU] #stream2own

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:10:44 +0200 Louigi Verona <louigi.verona(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes. And the important part of the production should be of a spiritual nature. It's not really the 'consumers' that I would call dumb, but the advertising that makes them look dumb by using all kind of tricks, very often cheap tricks and very often, well-studied levers and triggers. The dumb part would fall in when there's positive reaction to those events. In that sense, temporarily, a consumer could be called dumb. He's been had. Not a permamnent state, though. Hopefully. :) I was tempted to write a short Perl script to harvest every page, extract the artist name and run it through uniq or such. Just as an exercise. Without that, 12 artists per page times 52 pages makes 624. Blurb: "As of this moment 925 musicians and 137 labels have joined. Preview this random playlist, then become a member to hear more." So this is short of 925. Moreover, the repetitions within these pages might be around 30% if not more. At 30% that makes approx. 487 distinct entities. I mean, why. Why play with people's mind ? What else is in store from the same people ? Are we supposed to only have fun and laughs and not bother with such little details because they're a startup and well, you know, startups are not easy, they have to draw people in, in short, they cannot be 100% honest at the start. And they need my money. So when does the honesty is factored in ? Disclaimer: in about 1.5 year I got 6300 listens on Soundcloud. For Resonate that would be about $82. That is, if people would 1) pay to listen 2) do not hang up after 45 seconds. So I'm not on the market actively searching for such an outlet but, nevertheless, I keep an eye open and look at some when it happens. My observation on the artists pages and their numbers here stems simply from that short evaluation. The intent might be good, but the implementation shows, IMHO, apparent dishonesty that is not called for. The owner tugs in the 2008 financial crisis and solidarity between people to support the use of the co-op concept. If this is so, then why not be honest right from the start with the 'people' ? I go by the actions, not by the promises. https://medium.com/resonatecoop/the-story-behind-resonate-4b1658677663 Cheers.