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tux. wrote:Serious art needs serious brain. Hip-Hop is called "art", too, but...

You don't like Hip-Hop?

Sure, Hip-Hop is an industrial product like every successful music form since the invention of the recording technology. That the lyrics are so dumb is part of the success and a proof of serious brain working behind it. And it tells something about the "users". But you won't look down on somebody only because he's young and stupid, do you? Everybody gets the music he deserves (or so, after Joseph Marie de Maistre).

According to German Wikipedia, Hip-Hop is not a music style. Music requires rhythm, harmony and a sequence of tone pitches. Hip-Hop fails here.

tux. wrote:According to German Wikipedia, Hip-Hop is not a music style. Music requires rhythm, harmony and a sequence of tone pitches. Hip-Hop fails here.

German Wikipedia calls it a "Jugendkultur" (youth culture), which is a marketing tool disguised as descriptive term. But still I would bet I could find some individual that would give Hip-Hop credit for rhythm, harmony, or a sequence of tone pitches, or maybe for all three of them. And -- I hope you are sitting down -- I like De La Soul!

I actually like Die Fantastischen Vier, their lyrics and stuff...

To whom it may concern. I changed the deadline for the grass promotion to Sunday, 08 August 2010 (one week less).

Due to too many winners now?

tux. wrote:Due to too many winners now?

No, the thing is a total flop. Believe it or not, I currently get more customers paying full price than half price. Either it's too difficult, or I heavily overestimated the "villageness" of the internet. I thought this would spread like fire through all those social networks... but nothing.

Why do I make it shorter? 1) to highten the pressure; 2) to go earlier into vacation!

Well, I twitter'd it. Seems like I have too less friends then.
Vacation? Ah, now that is a valid reason.

tux. wrote:Well, I twitter'd it.

I saw it, but I have a license already.

Did you pay for it?

admin wrote:

tux. wrote:Due to too many winners now?

No, the thing is a total flop. Believe it or not, I currently get more customers paying full price than half price. Either it's too difficult, or I heavily overestimated the "villageness" of the internet. I thought this would spread like fire through all those social networks... but nothing.

Well, I tried passing it on via Twitter and FaceBook and not really any response, except for a long-time friend via FB who didn't think much of the idea, saying "you only get the discount if you pass some stupid quiz. Not very professional."...I've been back and forth with Tom a few more times on FB and he was wondering "what art has to do with a FM?"...tried to explain how multi-talented our Don is but he seems rather unconvinced...though he did say when talking about Qdir (he suggested that as a alternative) that "XY is the superior pgm"...

Anyway, that's been one reaction to it...

One of the graphics editors had an even more derogatory comment along the lines of "... it looks like he's lost in the jungle and doesn't know where to go ..."

I think you might have overestimated the amount of effort the average internet user is willing to exert in order to get a discount.

Sure, if you were set on buying XYplorer anyway, you won't mind googling around a bit to save some money. But I suspect the people who just randomly pass the site and don't really know about XYplorer will take a look at the list of 17 people and go "urgh, too much work".

It depends on who your intended target was really .. if you wanted to get people who were only superfluously interested to register I think it should have been (more of a) no-brainer .

On the negative reactions: criticism for free. I see in a very personal point of view that people has simply *lost* the taste for the beauty just to try to cause a false impression of professionalism because they can shout out an acid comment on everything. That's horrible. I also used to say "don't saw it and don't liked it", but after all showed some positive comments when the occasion demanded it. After all, I always try to appreciate at least the efforts behind the scenes, but that's not the rule nowadays. *sigh*

Free 2 cents of the day.

Anyway, thank you Don and community! Hard work demands some trial-and-error, and "error" vary on others' eyes, most of the time...

Gandolf wrote:One of the graphics editors had an even more derogatory comment along the lines of "... it looks like he's lost in the jungle and doesn't know where to go ..."

The grass quiz or the website generally?