There absolutely is a time and a place. I don't see the need to promote every single post I publish, but after a month I might have a few highlights I'd like to promote and show off, you know? Bring it all together and truly shine? Unfortunately, that market seems overrun by zombies and from a business standpoint I currently don't see a benefit in performing in front of them. If the place was cleaned up, maybe I'd see some potential and feel like dishing out some money.

As for those "promoters" and how they run their businesses: I honestly don't care. I'm not here to hold their hand and tell them how to make some real money by cleaning up their act. Chances are they won't listen, which is fine. If I was a "promoter", I'd only look for quality acts, otherwise my business looks bad and lucrative venues will not want to work with me. That's how it is in the real world. These folks don't really know that, so they open the floodgates and attract sometimes the worst of the worst. So be it. If that's how they want to work, that's how they'll work. Someone will come along with a faster car and blow their doors off.