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[peter]

Okay, I’ll just say the quiet part out loud.

We’ve reached a odd — even somewhat amusing — point where we have some members that are routinely grabbing the posts from here (our Deals forum) and posting them at the Cakewalk Forum. How do I know that for certain — beyond a shadow of a doubt? Well, it’s not merely the timing of the posts — get ready for it — my affiliate revenue reports recently showed that links on Cakewalk Forums had generated more than $6 US in earnings. Yes, some folks here copied my posts and the affiliate links too.

Now, I appreciate the contribution towards helping with the costs of this site, but here’s a suggestion: instead of coming to this site to copy LinkedMusicians posts and re–post them at the Cakewalk Deals Subforum, which is nearly dead at this point, why not bring more folks over here and post even more deals here (I’d love the help)? I feel very confident that BandLab is planning to close out the Deals forum, based on my emails with their social media manager, but also, the lack of activity there is surprisingly poor for a software brand valued at $425 million (a couple of years ago) and candidly, I’m surprised their CMO or investor relations manager isn’t demanding it be removed. It can really concern investors who stumble upon it.

In any event, while I realize I’m very invested (financially and emotionally) in this community, I hope you’ll consider inviting people over to LinkedMusicians, where we can discuss any product or service and not be censored. Where it’s run by regular users, not a billionaire who is okay with the forum manager making snarky and demeaning remarks to customers and forum users (the reason for my eventual departure, as I referenced in my final post there in what was the Curated List of Best Free Kontakt Libraries).

Anyhow, just food for thought. Of course, you can keep copying the deal posts here. But what happens when BandLab closes down the forum? Why not make the move prior to that and build this community?

LinkedMusicians Founder. Your friend who keeps the beat.

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