I mean, do you want me to go through my recent posts/comments in /r/nashville and explain them?
I posted some Uber codes once in a thread I didn't start (and the mods didn't delete), titled "Free uber rides up to $30." My posting of codes was prefaced by surprise that the post was being allowed at all and the sentiment that if OP was filling a need then I might as well contribute my easer-to-remember codes.
What do you think my personal Twitter account is? To my knowledge I have never posted a link to my personal Twitter account anywhere on Reddit.
Like a lot of other people in the city, I do work in the concert business but I don't work for any venues and I definitely do not make posts about every event with which I'm involved. When it's appropriate, I pay to advertise on Reddit because I understand that clickbait sucks and people who are copy and pasting links anywhere they can clearly don't give a fuck about user/consumer experience. I'm not trying to game this system or pretend to be "just one of the gang" when I'm not. I read /r/nashville every day that I'm on the Internet. I love and use Reddit almost daily. When you see me recommending an event to someone here, it's almost always because they've directly requested such advice.
In my response to the "Who's who in the local music scene?" thread, the only party with which I'm directly involved is The Trinity Schill Kill, which, believe me, doesn't make me any money. I saved mention of them for the end of my post. I stated my involvement, with no attempts to disguise it, while explaining that I was only mentioning them because of OP's specific request for "electro" music. OP appreciated my post; it's the top-voted comment in the thread. Other people made the exact same recommendations that I made. One other person linked to a Nashville Scene poll in which The Trinity Schill Kill was mentioned as one of the best local bands in Nashville. I'm not saying this to say, "But they did it, too!" I'm saying this to illustrate that the recommendations I posted are not things I am trying to clumsily force into the /r/nashville zeitgeist. It's just what's happening in the city right now, so it's going to get talked about when someone asks, "Hey, what's happening in the city right now?"
Before that, the most recent post I made re: an event was the Sold Out CHERUB concert at Marathon Music Works. I happened to have info re: ticket sales that wasn't public knowledge, so I thought I'd be doing /r/nashville a favor by letting them know they should get tickets ASAP if they wanted them. The concert was going to sell out with or without that post to /r/nashville. It wasn't about selling tickets. It was about helping the members of this community avoid paying exorbitant scalper prices for a ticket they could have gotten at face value if someone let them know ahead of time. I'm failing to see how this makes me an asshole.
The thread we're currently posting in? The original post is a little vague but I thought the implied topic was, "There are a lot of events in Nashville. People want to post about them in /r/nashville. Should we open the floodgates all the way, just a little bit or not at all?" I do apologize if I misunderstood the point of this thread. I understand that /r/nashvilleevents exists but it's a ghost town, purely because it's a free-for-all link farm. Anything goes and there is no gauge of worth. Why would anyone hang out there? I, as a resident first and an industry worker second, would enjoy event postings in /r/nashville, provided they meet the criteria in my original post in this thread. I'm not the only person who wants this. A while back, someone requested a sticky thread updated with weekly events. They were told to just go look at The Nashville Scene's calendar, which is a fair point but mistakenly assumes that The Scene's calendar is comprehensive to /r/nashville's interests and/or would highlight the same events as would /r/nashville members. Why is there an "Events | Shows" flair in /r/nashville?
Nobody has "called me out" except for you and the only things I've posted to /r/nashville since you've become aggressive with me for my perceived transgressions have been responses to your posts. The cat post (and the Hall & Oates post... and the Prince post...) were made before you started in on me. Without disclosing personal info, which I understand and respect is against Reddit's rules, I helped write the Craigslist post about that cat because I love that cat and deeply care that he finds a good home. He's currently nearing the end of a one week trial period with someone who found out about him because of that post. If things don't work out there, I would love to be able to feel like I can come to /r/nashville and make another post for him.
Again, my personal use of Reddit is not an attempt to profit from it in some way. I contribute to conversations here and hope my posts are seen as helpful or insightful or funny. It feels like you're being rather selective in your cursory examinations of my posting history. That or neglecting to look into the context of the posts I make to see that when I'm making a recommendation that someone check something out, it's usually because they've publicly asked for that recommendation.