Avoid Politics

02/23/21 • 7 min

This is a bit of advice, and that is do not post or talk about politics unless your podcasts, blog or whatever is on politics. The reason being is often it will result in getting abuse and harassment. Plus people may not want to hear your views. An example of this is a friend of mine who is a glamour model, posted her views on Trump. This resulted her getting huge abuse. And the truth is, her fans were following her for her looks and far less on her views. Now if you get people send you abuse because you said something that they felt was offensive, just block them. Do not waste your time trying to apologise to these PC bullies. Once you understand that these people who pretend to be offended by anything you say are no more than bullies and while they claim to be kind, in truth are just thugs and nasty people. The worst of these bullies are the ones who want people banned or silenced yet at the same time they will claim to be against fascism, while being a facist. They have an ideology that they are better than everyone else and that others are inferior to them and as such need to be silenced and banned. So just block them. They are not your fans or your friend, so block them. It is a bit like when companies pretend to be woke. The truth is, in most cases the woke people are not thee customers. And all that happens is that the real customers get fed up with the woke nonsense and you end up loosing real customers because you go woke. As long as you know your not being racist or whatever your being accused of, then simply ignore and block. The result is, these bullies just move onto someone else to bully while pretending to be nice.

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ClubHouse and podcasting 3.0

I am going to call such as the app ClubHouse a podcasting 3.0. By this I mean I shall call podcasting 1.0 where you just recorded yourself and uploaded the podcast online. Podcasting 2.0 was where people had several people on the podcast. Sometimes in a room, or via a mobile phone or zoom or some other communication app. So I shall call ClubHouse podcasting 3.0. As I write this, ClubHouse is an invite only app and at the moment only on the Apple phone or IPad. I have the app working on an iPad at the moment. The app is basically voice only, and to send someone a text message at the moment you do this via Instagram or Twitter by a DM otherwise known as a Direct Message. At the moment, once you get an invite, you can invite two people. I find most people on the app seem to be from the USA. The app is live, and at the moment has no recording function for you to record the shows. However, you can using other recording apps or external recording machines. The idea is that people create groups or as they seem to be called ‘clubs’. The clubs have moderators, who let people talk. You can just listen or if you want to take part, you click the wave button. The problem with the clubs is (1) as they are live, you may miss a ‘show’ as you are busy or even asleep. And (2) some ‘clubs’ have become like forums where some people take over and feel they are all important and unless you brown nose them, them you are not allowed to speak and even booted out of the ‘club’. This may become a problem as I have noticed this in forums. People end up feeling important and the forum ends up where only some have a voice. Then they create silly awards and the awards always go to the same people. It is why I have no interest in awards as they often mean nothing. The other problem that may come about is that already some people are recording the shows to post as a podcast. However, if you have 9000 people (for instance) listening and recording the same show to upload to there podcast, we will end up with 9000 same podcast shows. It is also likely that we will see lots of ClubHouse clones. Indeed it has been reported in the news that Facebook is working on a version. I have also noticed a few people doing voice only shows on Twitter. This is new to me and I will look into this later. However it does seem you can to live talk shows on Twitter with others. While some of the ‘clubs’ can be a bit dull. So far the more entertaining ones seem to be like ‘Dragons Den’ (it may be called something different in your country), the TV show. So people pitch there business ideas to people to try to get funding. These can be very entertaining to listen to.

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Recording ClubHouse shows may get you banned

Some so called experts are saying you can record ‘shows’ on ClubHouse as long as you tell people you are recording the shows. However it may be that this could get you banned.

This looks to be a privacy issue.

In the terms of service it states at the moment you need written permission to record shows.

In the news it states that ClubHouse shut down a website that was recording shows.

A lady on ClubHouse stated that she believes if you screen record the shows with your phone, that the clubhouse app will detect this and possibly will result in a ban.

By the way, I have nothing to do with any groups or clubs that use the name clubpod. So please do not pay anyone thinking your paying us.

I have noticed some clubs on ClubHouse seem to be just used by moderators to flog there business. For instance on a club for podcasters, if people ask a question, often the reply is from the moderator is contact her and pay for her service.

If I was you, avoid clubs where the moderator(s) is asking you to pay for there business. As these clubs seem to be no more than a tacky sales pitch for there business.

A few ClubHouse tips:

If you are going to talk. Turn the mobile option thing off on your mobile. Leave the WiFi on. This way if you are talking, then if someone phones you it will not switch you chatting off. Often you can hear people cut out when people phone them.

Some are saying that you should avoid clubs where it is silenced just asking people to follow each other as some are claiming both the club and members may get shadow banned.

To applaud people. The method at the moment is to flicker your mute or microphone button on and off.