u/twaccount143244 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Put aside Codesmith. Your income is dependent on the kind of people who frequent this subreddit. You’re not a disinterested participant in the conversation. That’s a conflict of interest. More specifically, you use this subreddit as a recruitment pool. At the very least you’ve d
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
1. I don't make a personal income and haven't for 5 years
2. About a third or so people at Formation did a bootcamp in the past, it's far from the majority right now.
3. Are you able to prove that I DM'd you and promoted Formation and told you to go there? I've done it very rarely - like 2 or 3 times, while I've had 100s of conversations telling people to go to bootcamps like Codesmith (which I no longer do), Launch School, Rithm, grad school, Tech Elevator, etc... based on their circumstances. If I DM'd you from my account and out of the blue told you that you need Formation, then that was a one off that rarely happens, was probably a very legitmate reason to do so, and I probably mentioned other options too like Interview Kickstart rather than just saying "go to Formation", it was probably like "you should consider interview prep programs because you have a lot of experience already".
4. Reddit isn't even a large enough source of traffic to break out into a top level sourcing bucket and it's under socials with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.