Alex's blog: "Matt is 100% Correct heres his Blog Post"

All deejays have been there. The party’s bangin’, people are dancing and you get the most intoxicated guy in the crowd hovering over the DJ booth requesting songs that don’t fit in with your set at all.

As a DJ, you’re being hired for a job. Part of that job is to please the crowd, but it’s hard to please everyone. Party-goers should realize that the job of the DJ is not to stand there and play every song on your iPod Top 40 playlist. They’re part of the atmosphere, providing you with great music to dance to. While it may look like all they’re doing is clicking buttons, there is much more going on than meets the eye.

 

First, we’ll explain the job a little more. When a DJ gets a job to play in a club or at a party, they generally get hired to—a)play their genre, or songs they’ve produced, or b)play music that suits the club, whether it be Top 40, hip hop or jazz. This should be determined upon hiring. The DJ will prepare for the night by creating a set list compiled of songs that flow and mix together well. Throwing in odd requests will make the set sound jumbled and out of order.

Now that the DJ has made it to the club and has started spinning realize that they are doing a job. A DJ must concentrate during most of the set for proper mixing and everything that involves live DJ-ing. Screaming requests at the DJ will not only distract them from their job, but also frustrate them.

Sometimes it is okay to request songs from the DJ. If you’re at a wedding or birthday party, the DJ that’s been hired usually is hired specifically to handle requests. They will often have a list you can write your request on. The best thing is to get your requests in before they’ve started their set, so they can work the set to flow nicely.

Never request songs from a headliner DJ. Such as Tiesto, pictured above—these DJ’s are paid big bucks to play music they’ve produced, or set lists they’ve wrought up before the night has started. Yelling requests is not only insulting, but won’t be acknowledged. It’s not that the DJ is stuck up—though some are—it’s that they are a professional and, honestly, they know what sounds good and what will get people going. Think of the show as a concert. You wouldn’t run up to the stage and request that Jay-Z sing a Snoop Dogg song, would you?

If the DJ does allow requests, consider the music that’s being played that night. Don’t request a glittery Beyoncé pop song if the DJ is pumping out dirty glitch hop, and don’t request dubstep if they’re playing ethereal ambient music. Part of DJ-ing is setting the vibe, an atmosphere using music as the base structure to connect with an audience.

If you see your drunk friends going for the DJ booth, whether they’re going to ogle the DJ or stream out a line of requests do everyone a favor and hold them back. Let the man do his job, thank and ogle afterwards.

As with most things all it takes is a little understanding into the situation to better determine what is and isn’t appropriate. Limit your requests to house parties, unless the DJ accepts requests, and remember that this person is doing a job. An unbelievably fun and crazy job.

This is not my Blog Post but THIS IS 100% TRUE!

 

 

 

 

*** You we're just backhanded by FuBar (two weeks ago)

 

 SO! How does everyone like those MERCS? You know, the ones you can sign yourself up to be from any wifi hotspot with a different IP and your link. I think I'll go to Starbucks today and sign myself up for one, and then hit McDonalds for another at lunchtime. In fact, I could just sit here in the comfort of my home and SPAM yahoo chat, or twitter, or craigslist, etc.

 

 I could also just sit here in my chair, login into my linksys router and change the MAC address, reboot and Comcast will give me a new IP every time; within 10 minutes. In fact it's so easy to cheat this system there is no way to guard against it. But thats not stopping 'them' from praying that 1 in 10 MERCS will be a productive and loving FuBar user that spends Money on this site. I'm not going to tell you to dream on guys, but I will tell you this is one idea that should have stayed at the kegorator.

 

 Worse yet, 'they' are violating already existing users in an attempt to exploit a recently favored application that is only a few months old. Thus trashing the Application before it's even had a birthday party. Thats not very nice. I suppose when the game began and bling packs started flying off the shelf (so users who didn't know how to play the game could gain an advantage.) it wasn't good enough to feed the green eyed monster. After all, it's big and very hungry.

 

 I am actually a small business owner. And while I'm not rich by any streatch of the imagination, thats my choice. I built my business with zero credit and zero financing of second hand sorts. I also did it with zero savings. I turned profit my first year in a niche, and continue to increase profit year after year. Guess how my business ethics compare to the recent antics of those running a certain social networking site? They don't..

 

 And based on only 3 months statistical figures and yield specifically from this application they are prepared to wager an existing consumer base that they can exploit this application and it's users to the point where you (yes YOU) won't even matter anymore. In fact, they are banking so hard on it, that you apparently don't already. Because they intend to 'use' you to replace yourself after your finally disgusted enought to give up on them.

 

 But not before you've replaced yourself with 500 new users. And if they're prayers are answered, 50 of them will be productive new fubar members. Welcome to big business! The Kleenex is by the door. Please note the sign that says 'sucker!' planted firmly in place of the exit sign.

 

 Angry yet? let me put it this way in case your not. They are exploiting Those that helped make this site what it is today. They don't care how it makes you feel, because you will be replaced by 50 new 'yous'. You've paid for they're meals, housing and sports cars. This is your reward. I'm pretty sure my Staples card offers a better program and i'm still not sure what that stupid card entitles me to. But I keep shoping there because it still feels good to buy things there.

 I am however all done shopping here. I made an attempt to post the following blog to scrappers blog on FuMafia. I checked back a day later to find out that they will no longer be approving blogs bitching about the MERCS. Furthermore if you add a MERC and it doesn't show up, they will not fix it for you. What this equates to in no uncertain terms is:

 

'we don't care if your upset. And if we are busy screwing with the site as usual, and it doesn't add for some reason; we won't be helping you with that either.. have a great day!'

 

 All thats missing is a napkin and a big green lugie on my forehead. And if you think i'm being mellowdramatic about this, your going to be the next person they piss off. The Magic 8-ball is never wrong. The following is the non-approved post, feel free to skip it if you feel you've read enough for the day.

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 'PART #1 (Whats up with the character limits?)

  How many people will have to come to this blog and tell you they can't stand this idea before it goes away? It didn't take long at all with the banking captcha. You know why I can't stand it. The losses don't bother me one bit. It's a imaginary player, imaginary $, and imaginary weapons all having no real affect on my life.

 Quite simply, it bothers me that you did this because it is now no longer a game. You can take it right off the game menu, thats not what this is anymore. I have not seen a game in the history of gaming that requires you to SPAM people to gain an advantage. Let's forget all about becoming a student of the game, learning its intricacies, and executing them perfectly. That doesn't matter anymore. First it was 'spend money to win' and now that people realize you don't have to use bling to win, you found a good solid way to get what you want and make users work.

 How about instead of 'Tired of losing? Recruit Mercenaries!' You change it to 'Tired of losing? LEARN TO PLAY THE GAME!' Because people can learn the game, restart their characters, etc. But instead they are encouraged to help grow your website.

PART #2

 How many people have the staff referred to the site lately? I don't see a lot of bouncers recruiting MERCS. In fact I don't see any. Any bouncers with MERCS wanna speak up? How many people have you brought to the site lately?

 And you say your IP checking? is that a joke? And I'm quite serious. Here's some information that READILY available to anyone. So there's no point in omitting it here.

 1) Have a comcast connection and an aftermarket router? You can change the routers MAC address every 10 minutes and comcast will assign you a new IP. 

 2) Get an ipv6 tunnel with endpoint control (they're free!) Setup the client up as a routing machine, and you can create endless IPs!

 3) Email your join link to everyone on your list with a content something like 'so me a quick favor, go here (link), sign up (it's free!) and create a mobster. I'd really appreciate it! - And all the other person needs to be is a friend with 5 minute of free time and it's done.

 4) Got Tank? How about FAMILY? No harm in borrowing they're computer next time your over for dinner. perfect timing with the holidays here! I must have been to 8 different houses the last two weeks.

PART #3

 Your thinking of the potential to have new bling buyers sign up, and what your getting is 90% wasted server space instead. And you completely ruined an application doing so. 

 Here's a neat one - http://fubar.com/mafia/?p=20691 - 26 mercs, I think about 6 of them have added a picture, the rest sit idle taking up server space. What did you gain here? Just more angry existing (and spending) site supporters is my guess.

 In fact, I did the math - 500 MERCS = 37,500 additional att/def points. Assuming there is the same limit in place on the MERCS, but I didn't see one, and don't think there will be one (Why would you limit the amount of new accounts? right?)

 Highest attack weapons, 500 brownings, 500 body armors, and 500 helis = 20,000 attack.

 So really all I need to do is SPAM your site to 500 recruits, buy myself 500 tennis rackets and the users who is built with the absolute highest attack weapons is a dead man. Not because They don't know how to play the game, but because they don't have SPAMMED members armed with tennis rackets capable of taking on machine guns, body armor and Apache helicopters. Smooth....


PART #4

 I hated having to spend the time to say all this, and somebody's probably tired of reading it. But I'm trying to talk some sense here. It was an aweful idea and your leaving a lot of your users feeling violated in one form or another. Look at the math and in the end game, someone is going to end up FORCED to recruit for your site to beat someone. And when everybody has 500 of everything, it's going to be a competition to see who can SPAM the most.

 If your creative enough to to brainstorm a way to force users to do this for you, i'm sure you can think of some way to reimburse them for they're recruiting time and remove the MERC power. They only people who are going to complain then are the people who enjoyed not having to know how to play the game. It's time they learned.

 I just bought a bling pack and have spent no one credit on this game, and refuse to. I will use it to show the real friends I have that I care because I'm too far away to stop by their houses and hang out, or buy them a real beer. It helps support the site as well. But when you offered Advantages for money and Marketing your site; You trashed this game.

 It is my sincerest advice to you, that you use the 'poll' option built into your site to allow the users to vote they're opinions before you make changes like this. You can just add a 'leave feedback (linked to this blog)' and 'polls for new features - vote!(linked to the polls)' on the home page so users can look these things over and decide the future of the game. It's just a game. Not a marketing tool, and not a revenue generator. In fact, i'm pretty sure I can go to Myspace and play this for free and win.

 I hope you post this and take it into serious consideration. The line has been crossed.

 - Matt'

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 And there you have it. Something about posts like that Seem to bother them. I can't imagine why. Mind you Net-Censorship is not suppose to exist in this day and age. Unless business is at stake of course. Then it's perfectly acceptable to sweep things under the carpet.

 And if I were driving a fancy car that isn't mine (Google: Social Concepts) straight toward a brick wall, I probably wouldn't want the owner to watch it happen either. The lump in the carpet must be getting awefully big guys! Maybe if you stop producing things to clean up, you won't have much more to sweep under it.

 

 To wrap this up; This is bigger than Fu-Mafia. This is a sign of things to come. I see the facebook and twitter links poping up everywhere. I see the Texas hold-em icons showing up in the scrollers. The scaling down of bandwidth usage (CSS phasing in, picture animation limitations) I have been paying attention. All in just a matter of months.

 

 There is not a care in the world how it affects us, the users. There is a bigger picture here boys and girls. This is a push for a seat up there with MySpace and Facebook. And team FuBar is playing 'High Stakes Gambling' With your money and your respect. I predict the reward will not be on the top end of that little jewel, but they will still get a massive helping of experience points!

 

 But who am I to criticise? I don't have a garage full of fancy cars, or a multi-million dollar bank account. I do have a comfortable living quality, and a loyal consumerbase that knows they're concerns are always addressed. I might be a 'small timer' but I'm a guaranteed small timer with the potential to be big. It might have something to do with my business ethics.

 

 I have professed my disgust thoroughly. I will not contirbute another red cent towards this site until I see somebody's concerns being addressed, even if they are not my own. All I see is ignorance. Perhaps thats what i pay attention to most while overlooking the good. Be it so, the money stays in my pocket and if this continues I'm taking it elsewhere.

 

 Furthermore I am asking any friends that read this to duplicate it with my full permission to their own blogs if they feel the same way. I am also asking that my friends do not spend another dime on me in the form of gift VIP renewals, bling, or any other method of supporting the site to show friendship or appreciation towards me. Throw me a rate or buy a gift with the fake fubucks. Until further notice, this is my wish and I ask it in friendship. Please support my protest and my concerns until further notice.

 

 If this behaviour persists, I will close my account all together.. Thank you for reading my book ;)

 

 - Matt (Pimp-In-Distress)