Originally Posted by esnem

As with any industry, there are intricacies that only the truly successful understand. It just so happens that one's ability to attack/defend, brag/retract, spam/promote etc. etc. in a public forum are qualities of success inherent to this particular industry. This is not a politically correct industry and it never will be. If you ever doubt that, refer to the header of this site.

For example, it would be completely acceptable for me to reply to your post with:


Now if I were an account rep and afraid of losing my job because I didn't know dick about how the industry worked, I'd most likely reply with:


While this forum is very-much a business oriented forum, the reality is that a lot of us know each other very well off the board as well. A lot of business done is done not in public, or on forums, or meant for other people to see.

CreatineGuy is a good example of a complete fucking moron that will never be successful in this industry no matter how hard he tries, however. Other people you'd be really surprised if you met them in person how creative and smart they actually are compared to how big of an asshole they can play on a message board.