Soundcloud Cuts 40% of workforce

[Just1L]

53 minutes ago, Richard Tracey said:

I don't know how SoundCloud sit back and allow it and this might be one of the reasons why it has been going the way of the Dodo. Most people I have spoken to get annoyed when they see an alert, just to find out is something like this.

 

When someone follows you, or likes your content, you get excited. If you have it set up to get an email when this happens, what do you do? If I was guessing, you go to Soundcloud and check it out. BOOM more visits and clicks for Soundcloud. Whether you like it or not, it did actually do something positive for SC itself. So, even if they have no responsibility in it whatsoever, which I tend to think they don't actually, completely stopping it would only hurt their "bottom line" of numbers. They do a good job of removing those users though. Which if you're evil is the perfect plan. "Hey, we know it's happening and we don't like it, that's why we removed that user. (behind closed doors) bwaaahaaahaaahaahaa." It could be anything from spamming robots looking to create more users to spam to spamming robots created by SC to help keep people coming back to their site, regardless of the legitimacy of it. We may never know. 

[starise]

You mean like how SS send me emails when a thread gets posted to?  Only the hits here are legit, that is, unless we have a bunch of hypothetical posers.

[Just1L]

34 minutes ago, starise said:

You mean like how SS send me emails when a thread gets posted to?  Only the hits here are legit, that is, unless we have a bunch of hypothetical posers.

 

Yes, exactly like that. But just imagine if you got that email, came here time and time again, and a saw that those giving you the hits here were porn promoting robots. I think over time that would wear on anyone for any site. But SS is an entirely different type of site. COMMENT DELETED

Edited August 18, 2017 by Just1L

[starise]

On 8/18/2017 at 2:43 PM, tunesmithth said:

 

Nope, just checked  No posers here...at least not of the hypothetic persuasion. 

 

 Ok Tunesmithth

 

 You got me .

On 8/18/2017 at 2:44 PM, Just1L said:

Yes, exactly like that. But just imagine if you got that email, came here time and time again, and a saw that those giving you the hits here were porn promoting robots. I think over time that would wear on anyone for any site. But SS is an entirely different type of site. COMMENT DELETED

 

That's for sure.