About half of all the posts on these boards are about respect - which really means complaints about which customer, vendor, or banquet manager failed to show the DJ due deference or give in to their demands and expectations. I'm not interested in joining that club.
It's not a lack of respect when I refuse to entertain posts with a "show me" sense of entitlement. No one who appears on the internet owes anyone a free extended education on some topic. Nothing will evaporate respect faster than demanding respect for uninformed and erroneous information just by virtue of having posted it. Pile on gripes like this always come from the same "prove me wrong" crowd playing the victim.
I've been at this for over thirty years. I came from DJing, and from training and supporting DJs (which I still do) but, have grown from that to being a full on event tech from staging to lighting, AV, and more. What considerations are taken up in a production meeting for the inclusion of a DJ? Clear boundaries.
Mobile DJs notoriously don't know what they don't know, and that blind spot can make them dangerous. The problem is exacerbated because DJs tend to acquire their information from other DJs rather than real education or certified training. So, bad practices and erroneous information takes on a life of it's own. There are some event sites so clearly beyond their scope that it tames their ego but, when those obvious limits are not visible they typically behave like their the smartest guy in the room and it can be really dangerous to people, property, safety, and the event goals.
More often than not when a DJ on here is pointing the finger at a client, an event manager, or some other vendor - the transparency of their own contribution jumps right off the page, and they can't even see it.
