For the past three years I've been sent thousands of links to posts that people wanted me to see from hundreds of other creators who maybe wanted me to see their new creation, good or bad. I've thought about doing the same from the start. I knew this strategy from Week 1. The first link ever sent to me was from KingsFan, who is a great creator (if he could stay on the site), telling me to check out his Jerami Grant to Kings trade (it's still up: https://fanspo.com/nba/s/kings/trades/PlJnuzYmnAbbiY/kings-interested-in-grant-and-pacers-bigs-per-report-update). Other links following that were sent; some more from KingsFan, jbb telling me that Patrick Williams has negative trade value according to FanSpo, and SKF linking me the poll to my matchup. It's always been a promotional strategy. But I have refused this whole time. I send links occasionally to certain people if my post is directed at them. But spamming your link to 20-30 different people is where I draw the line. I've seen entire pages of people's comment crowded by the same link in their profile. It's absurd. I won't call any names out, that's childish and I'd rather not indulge in a controversy that could end horribly. Any images I might include will be heavily edited to not hurt anyone's feelings.

I've never had a problem with someone trying to one-up me on some silly trade challenge and sending me the link to their trade so that I can respond quicker. What I do have a problem with is stuff like this: https://fanspo.com/nba/s/general/p/5vvSUnpNjJk5pv/for-a-later-post

I colored everything out for anonymity purposes, but you can tell what's going on. It's sending a link to your post to gain some clout. To me it epitomizes what so many people do. This is the same case with 90% of other creators. The list goes on and on for the rest of the page of comments, with a few outliers. There are benefits, you keep the audience you built up from other posts, more comments = more GM score (if you care about that anyways), and if they like your post that you've sent them and flame it, it could reach a wide audience through the feed section. But I'm against all of this. I find it lazy and a desperate plead for help. It's like they maintain a level of perfection in impressions they get on their posts. It's felt cheap this whole time. I've thought about it several times (I've thought about everything several times, just ask SeattleThunder). Every time, I came to the same conclusion that getting good numbers every post without doing the same slog of comments over and over again would be a lot cooler and more impressive (which I eventually did). The only person I've sent more than 1 post link to is stephcurrysalt. If he really wanted to he could leak every hidden post I have (except one which might never get done). Luckily for me he hasn't, but it's walking on thin ice without a doubt. Even then, those links are on Bandlab for unfinished posts that I may or may not need help for. They aren't attention seeking in the slightest. It's merely as help. If you're one of the people who send me links to your posts regularly, go ahead. Be my guest. I just really don't want my entire inbox to look light blue.