Soundcloud Automator?

Anyone heard of this?
Within minutes after uploading to Soundcloud  I always get a couple of scam messages from people wanting me to check out their site.  I got one just now from a guy promoting something called Soundcloud Automator. I think it's some kind of bot used to increase the number of visitors to your soundcloud page but I don't understand what that would get you. Certainly not the satisfaction of knowing that a lot of people are liking your music.

The issue is not whether you will gain satisfaction from knowing your songs are reaching a large audience, but rather whether you will be able fabricate a fraud that will make others believe that your songs are popular. It is the musical promotion equivalent of padding your resume to encourage an employer to want to hire you, or faking positive reviews for your product to sell more. In the best case, the fraudster hopes that the elusive "talent scouts" who apparently can no longer be expected to seek you out at cheap bars and weddings, will give your song a listen if their own talent robots searching SoundCloud think you are the new viral sensation, and offer you a way to actually get paid for the stuff you have to give away to get anyone to hear. More realistically, you might hope that the girl you pick up at the wedding will be impressed if you tell her that your song got ten thousand hits on SoundCloud, and give you a BJ after checking it out on her phone in the ladies room. Many successful musicians spend many thousands of dollars on social media consultants to create the same illusion. Popular music is much less dependant on being music than on being "popular."

Reminds me of the excellent sketch by comedian Dave Gorman about buying followers on Twitter. (From his "Modern Life is Goodish" series.)

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The issue is not whether you will gain satisfaction from knowing your songs are reaching a large audience, but rather whether you will be able fabricate a fraud that will make others believe that your songs are popular. It is the musical promotion equivalent of padding your resume to encourage an employer to want to hire you, or faking positive reviews for your product to sell more. In the best case, the fraudster hopes that the elusive "talent scouts" who apparently can no longer be expected to seek you out at cheap bars and weddings, will give your song a listen if their own talent robots searching SoundCloud think you are the new viral sensation, and offer you a way to actually get paid for the stuff you have to give away to get anyone to hear. More realistically, you might hope that the girl you pick up at the wedding will be impressed if you tell her that your song got ten thousand hits on SoundCloud, and give you a BJ after checking it out on her phone in the ladies room. Many successful musicians spend many thousands of dollars on social media consultants to create the same illusion. Popular music is much less dependant on being music than on being "popular."

Some say Andy Warhol was a fraud.  But his stuff rings true.  The honesty in art will survive this horrible fraud perpetrated by charletons!  haha.

report them via the report tool on SoundCloud
 
I report the lot of the bar stewards