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japenus wrote: Mon Aug 11, 2025 1:08 pm if verticalscrote is running ads on the site, you know it's just another fag-lord, psy-op site. no one there outside of plx can evern play guitar, or gives a crap about guitar playing. its onl;y a platform to spew TDS retardation. :lol:
Perhaps, but I don't buy any of it.

The pollical sub-forum rants by the site-runners read like bait posts.. They post stickies about "respect each other" and "keep an open mind", then start their own TDS tirades with insults and name-calling anyone who might disagree with them.

I say "might" because none of the 3 or 4 accounts there ever do. Of course, those accounts are more than likely the admin's sock-puppets who come in and agree with everything said in their OP.

This is all part of the pattern on all VerticalScrote sites. :|
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and still radio silence from Watson503, except for his usual posts of YouTube links to devil-worshipping shit-metal bands.

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PLX wrote: Mon Aug 11, 2025 5:04 pm Perhaps, but I don't buy any of it.

The pollical sub-forum rants by the site-runners read like bait posts.. They post stickies about "respect each other" and "keep an open mind", then start their own TDS tirades with insults and name-calling anyone who might disagree with them.

I say "might" because none of the 3 or 4 accounts there ever do. Of course, those accounts are more than likely the admin's sock-puppets who come in and agree with everything said in their OP.

This is all part of the pattern on all VerticalScrote sites. :|
this is VerticalScrote's concept of "engagement farming".. use fake accounts to foment political arguments (or arguments about anything) because that creates "engagement". :lol:

but they really play to the current political climate by having a little cabal of accounts on staff that have zero interest on guitar playing or tone, and are only there to incite traffic using the Trump Derangement Syndrome routine, or pushing the homosexual/trans agenda on a site where no one agrees with that crap.

go read some Reddit entries about what happens to all sites VerticalScrote takes over.. this tactic runs off everyone who knows anything about the site's stated purpose, be it guitar, 4x4 off-road vehicles, woodworking.. whatever. Then the site dies. :mrgreen:
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ShredSquatch wrote: Mon Aug 11, 2025 6:01 pm this is VerticalScrote's concept of "engagement farming".. use fake accounts to foment political arguments (or arguments about anything) because that creates "engagement". :lol:

but they really play to the current political climate by having a little cabal of accounts on staff that have zero interest on guitar playing or tone, and are only there to incite traffic using the Trump Derangement Syndrome routine, or pushing the homosexual/trans agenda on a site where no one agrees with that crap.

go read some Reddit entries about what happens to all sites VerticalScrote takes over.. this tactic runs off everyone who knows anything about the site's stated purpose, be it guitar, 4x4 off-road vehicles, woodworking.. whatever. Then the site dies. :mrgreen:
EnthusedDigital was into the exact same scheme.

It's all smoke & mirrors with the fake accounts, bots and sock puppets. All being done to generate ad revenue, because the SEO sites cannot tell the difference between real users and fake users on these forums.


What makes no sense though is to see this bot/sock activity on the dead sites.. the forums with 3 or 4 active accounts, no traffic, no ads running. :?
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PLX wrote: Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:47 pm EnthusedDigital was into the exact same scheme.

It's all smoke & mirrors with the fake accounts, bots and sock puppets. All being done to generate ad revenue, because the SEO sites cannot tell the difference between real users and fake users on these forums.


What makes no sense though is to see this bot/sock activity on the dead sites.. the forums with 3 or 4 active accounts, no traffic, no ads running. :?
we don't want people on these guitar forums that can play, can build an amp, cans setup a guitar, that have the gear aspect figured out and aren't constantly buying gear.

we want people who never practice, can't play, who still think buying more gear is the solution to why they suck at guitar.

:mrgreen:

that's our core audience. that's who were selling ads to, and that's who were promoting every new piece of gear that comes to market to using bots & sock puppet accounts.

that's our business model, and business is good, because most of these guys are retarded and gay. :lol:
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japenus wrote: Tue Aug 12, 2025 4:01 pmthat's our business model, and business is good, because most of these guys are retarded and gay. :lol:
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japenus wrote: Tue Aug 12, 2025 4:01 pm
PLX wrote: Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:47 pm EnthusedDigital was into the exact same scheme.

It's all smoke & mirrors with the fake accounts, bots and sock puppets. All being done to generate ad revenue, because the SEO sites cannot tell the difference between real users and fake users on these forums.


What makes no sense though is to see this bot/sock activity on the dead sites.. the forums with 3 or 4 active accounts, no traffic, no ads running. :?
we don't want people on these guitar forums that can play, can build an amp, cans setup a guitar, that have the gear aspect figured out and aren't constantly buying gear.

we want people who never practice, can't play, who still think buying more gear is the solution to why they suck at guitar.

:mrgreen:

that's our core audience. that's who were selling ads to, and that's who were promoting every new piece of gear that comes to market to using bots & sock puppet accounts.

that's our business model, and business is good, because most of these guys are retarded and gay. :lol:
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japenus wrote: Tue Aug 12, 2025 4:01 pm we don't want people on these guitar forums that can play, can build an amp, cans setup a guitar, that have the gear aspect figured out and aren't constantly buying gear.

we want people who never practice, can't play, who still think buying more gear is the solution to why they suck at guitar.

:mrgreen:

that's our core audience. that's who were selling ads to, and that's who were promoting every new piece of gear that comes to market to using bots & sock puppet accounts.

that's our business model, and business is good, because most of these guys are retarded and gay. :lol:
this is about the most accurate description of how these "guitar" forums really work, and why they are almost all now owned by a single entity.
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you guys notice how the entire Internet "guitar forum" thing is conmtrolled by homosexual Canadians?

hell, even VerticalScrote is a Canadian entity. 8-)
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japenus wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2025 4:21 pmhomosexual Canadians
your being redundant here :lol:
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