Hi everyone,
This was not an attempt to deceive, this is just a segmentation issue. We have a social team who is responsible for handling all of our social media efforts, while I am just the web analytics guy who is also a Bitcoin enthusiast. I'm not in sales, and the series is free, which I tried to emphasize, so I didn't mean any harm.
I knew that this link was going to go out on the official channels on Twitter, FB, and reddit, but I was afraid that it wouldn't hit the places I personally thought that it would be most valuable, in these threads where I tend to be.
I thought that from my posts it was clear that I was involved, but I could have done a better job of making that clear at the beginning, which also would have made it obvious that my posts here were in only a semi-official capacity as a guy who loves Bitcoin and is excited that his company does too.
This is why we have people who do this professionally, and I shouldn't have stepped on their toes, but I assure you that I just wanted to make sure more people saw that we had a free Bitcoin video series.
Mea culpa, but I would still love to see feedback on the actual video content.
Please share how your first post made it "clear that [you] were involved"? Because I fail to see it.
Stop beating around the bush. Just admit that you screwed up. This WAS an attempt to deceive (you were trying to make us believe that you were unaffiliated with the content you were advertising) - you attempted to share the videos as a third party when you were not.
I am very willing to forgive and forget when the person who screwed up is willing to admit their mistake. But when you refuse to admit your mistake, it just makes you look bad and digs you a deeper hole.