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Ah, the Clive Cussler technique... (It's obvious, you are Dave.)
Quote: Clive Cussler, the renowned adventure novelist, had an interesting and somewhat unconventional start to his literary career. When he finished his manuscripts for “The Mediterranean Caper” and “Iceberg,” he struggled to find a literary agent. To overcome this, he created a fictional literary agency called "The Charles Winthrop Agency"1.
Cussler went as far as purchasing a thousand sheets of blank letter paper and having a friend design a logo for his fake agency. He then sent out letters to real literary agents, including Peter Lampack of the William Morris Agency, pretending to be a representative of this non-existent agency12. His creative approach paid off, and he eventually secured representation, which helped launch his successful writing career.
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raddevus wrote: Ah, the Clive Cussler technique... (It's obvious, you are Dave.)
LOL, no, I'm not Dave! 
I've never heard of this "Clive Cluster" technique.
The thing is, I have years of experience managing advertising campaigns for Fortune 1000 companies. Given my experience, I know how to gather exposure in way that is not only appropriate and ethical, but also cost-monetarily efficient. Dave didn't acquire more than a couple hundred views on his book review requests. The way in which he pitched his request indicates to me that he has minimal experience and knowledge in how to properly promote a product, or service.
I don't mean this to be any sort of derogatory statement toward Dave, but I must be honest. When it comes to marketing and advertising, I don't believe Dave has much of a clue. From what I gather, he's trying to do the best he can with what he has. I hope that in the future he will make the effort to learn how to advertise in a way that is effective and ethical.
I'm only playing with Dave. I have absolutely no intent of inflicting insult, grief, or harm to anyone whatsoever, including Dave vimself. If anything, I hope that Dave picked up on the fact that there are proper ways in which to advertise, and promote his work effectively.
I'm amused by your insinuation, but no worries. By no means is that assumption correct in any way. I do understand how someone may come to reason that I could be Dave, but I'm not Dave.
If you were to name any 12 Fortune 1000 companies, or perhaps more specifically, the top 100 companies in the list, you will most likely name one or more of my past clients. Most of my clients have million-dollar budgets, and it was my responsibility to help them make the most out of their investments.
I swear, I'm not Dave, and I've never met him. I was just playing with him for laughs, nothing more. 
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(If you continue in this way, you are going to be viewed as a pompous idiot. First you were pushing us to help Dave, by reviewing his book, and even created a dedicated thread in order to do so. Then you say you were playing with him. Now you say that you have years of experience in advertising campaigns for 'the biggest companies!' But you didn't recognize his post as the advertisement it seems to be. And now you are apologizing to Dave in another thread. It is hard to take you seriously after these actions. It is incredibly difficult to believe that you are not Dave, even though you refute the idea.
(In the future, maybe think a bit more before jumping in head over heels like this. You diminish yourself with actions such as these.)
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David O'Neil wrote: difficult to believe that you are not Dave
or StevieWondermann - Professional Profile[^] it would seem.
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I do not think both accounts are the same user, in all the rest... I agree 150%
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He posted the publication of his book in his personal forum on Quote: Friday, April 28, 2023 4:01am by DavesApps
Would it have been a:
I am finishing my book and I would like to have some feedback, interested people contact me and I will send you a wartermarked copy of it to evaluate per email...
I would have had no problems at all with that. Even with the same message posting the link to a brand new amazon book.
Publishing the link almost 18 months later... For me, that's not a legitime use-case anymore.
In addition: you bringing more attention to something that could have just stayed like that, has only made it worse.
And you are getting really close to the limit of what I consider trolling. I ask you to stop, please.
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Yes, I understand. That's well said. If Dave had communicated his request in a genuine way, and not in a way that violates the rules of this forum, it may have been OK. I too enjoy sharing with others what projects I may be working on, and people may come to the incorrect conclusion about what my intentions are in doing so. In sharing my work, there's no benefit to me in any way. If I were looking to gain something by sharing my work, then I would advertise it properly.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm well experienced in advertising and marketing. I've managed marketing and advertising campaigns for Fortune 1000 companies with million-dollar budgets. I know how to get the word out in the proper way.Nelek wrote: In addition: you bringing more attention to something that could have just stayed like that, has only made it worse.
I understand. I think if Dave's post was out-of-line to the extent that it required deletion, then it would have been removed very early on. That would send the message to me that my joking around isn't appreciated.
Nelek wrote: In addition: you bringing more attention to something that could have just stayed like that, has only made it worse.
And you are getting really close to the limit of what I consider trolling. I ask you to stop, please.
Certainly. As soon as I saw that others didn't see the humor in my playing around with Dave, and the word "troll" was brought up, I discontinued everything. I apologize to anyone who may have not appreciated my playing around with poor Dave. It was all in jest, and I certainly can't expect everyone to find humor in what I'm doing.
This site has members from all over the world. It's a well-establish fact that in large part, someone in country "A" will find no humor (or even find offense) in what someone from country "B" finds to be hilarious. Add on the fact that textual communication strips out 80% of all language that would be conveyed in comparison to what a face-to-face interaction provides to its participants, and that's how problems start. Hence, any attempt at humor in this environment is bound to result in friction most of the time, regardless of context.
If I ever get to a point where it's more of an annoyance than an expression of humor, then I stop. That's my rule. It can be a blurred line, and once I realize that it's unwelcome behavior to others, it loses its humor to me. I'm not out to cause trouble, strife, grief, or anything else that is seen as unwelcome.
Nelek wrote: And you are getting really close to the limit of what I consider trolling. I ask you to stop, please.
Absolutely. I respect your request and I take it seriously. I appreciate your assertive and honest message. Without such feedback, I may not realize that what's hilarious to me, is an annoyance to others. That assertive communication is important, and I would much rather see someone express their grievance, than to keep quiet and tolerate what they do not appreciate, find annoying, or inappropriate/offensive.
I apologize to you, and anyone else who may feel the same way. If in the future, my joking around ever bothers you in a legitimate way, then certainly speak up so that I know.
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Steve Raw wrote: Add on the fact that textual communication strips out 80% of all language that would be conveyed in comparison to what a face-to-face interaction provides to its participants, and that's how problems start.
you still have enough ways to show "your intentions" in text if you are an experienced internet user (what I presuppose you are), and you missed all / didn't use any of them.
If you want to make jokes, or sarcastic comments... use the textual signs to compensate the missin paraverbal and non verbal information.
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Steve Raw wrote: someone in country "A" will find no humor (or even find offense) in what someone from country "B" finds to be hilarious.
You now made me curious... are you from the U.S.A. as your profile says? Or do you come from somewhere else? (where?)
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I think we are all well-experiences with these damn cookie screens, and while most play nice (i.e., once you click NO to everything, it gets remembered for the next time you go to a website that uses that screen), there is one cookie screen in particular that doesn't play nice, and makes in a PITA to unclick the 8 or so checkboxes for "Legitimate Interest" cookies (an Orwellian term if there ever were one).
I would be most appreciative if anyone can point me to a browser add-on that automatically defeats this (i.e., by silently unclicking all these damn checkboxes), especially for Firefox. NOTE: I do not want to simply have NO cookies, since I do like them for stuff like logins, etc.
EDIT: I've tried to post a screenshot of this obnoxity, but couldn't figure it out. I even tried by toggling off uBlocker, and still couldn't do it - but I have learned that codeproject.com itself has an obnoxious cookie screen. 
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I just go elsewhere and never go back.
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swampwiz wrote: but I have learned that codeproject.com itself has an obnoxious cookie screen.
That wasn't a very nice thing to say at all. 
Please, do something kind with your time to make the world a better place.
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Cookie screens can be attributed to the EU and their privacy laws.
I set my browser to clear all cookies on exit, and just ignore the screen and/or click OK. I can create an exception if I want to.
If it is objectionable, I follow OG's advice. Do the same for the "turn off your ad blocker" sites.
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theoldfool wrote: Cookie screens can be attributed to the EU and their privacy laws.
Sadly, as in many other things, a good idea bad implemented / legislated  
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I've always wondered if that legislation requires the user be asked every time they visit the site, and/or prohibit a site from storing their answers.
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Behing honest... I don't know for sure. I have nothing to do with active websites, so I didn't read the actual law.
But I think it is something in the line of "You may not save information of an user without permission", so the only way to cope with that was the dumb banners popping up all around and "asking". And making legitime technical cookies to grow up a bunch of % points
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Sorry to snipe your thread, but how did you add an image to the post?
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To any post or just this one?
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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It's not actually an image. The Wordle site creates it out of character codes (🟨⬛🟩) when you click "share".
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