Fanlisting Dolts
Feb. 3rd, 2005 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinWhat is so hard to figure out about fanlistings?
Seriously, people need to learn to R E A D. I get the occasional "when is the dvd coming out?" email in regards to two of the movie fanlistings I run, and sometimes "where can I buy X book?" with one of my author fanlistings, or whether Jhonen's writing more Squee! comics. And then there's the emails once in a while that are of the variety where they expect me to be in touch with bands (like Cinema Strange, who aren't exactly that hard to get in touch with anyway, either directly/through their "PR person" Ludo), and I've even had someone email me asking what a good price would be to Ebay an original Siouxsie concert tshirt (how the hell would I know? try closed auction searches for comparable stuff?).
I run a fanlisting... I don't sell dvd's, or second hand vintage concert t-shirts or back catalogue books. A fanlisting, just a list, of fans of a subject. I make it perfectly clear on the sites in various places. And usually I provide links to official sites and links that would help people out with most of what they need.
This one gets the prize so far:
I AM A COORDINATOR OF GOTHIC ROCK FESTIVAL IN SPAIN I LIKE CONTAC WITH BAUHAUS FOR A EVENT IN 2005 CASTLE OF MANZANARES IN MADRID SPAIN, THE EVENT IS GREAT AND I FOR I INTERESTING PLAY FOR THE DREAM OF ALL SPAIN FANS OF ALL OF TIMES.
Good for you. The all caps is annoying by the way, so in future learn to turn the capslock off, especially if you're some kind of official coordinator.
Also, Bauhaus disbanded a good 2+ decades ago, though I know they've done some reunion tours etc. and are playing a festival in California sometime in spring this year. However, I still have a question. Why does my fanlisting look like a good place to ask how to get in touch with this band? Did you miss the link to the official Bauhaus site on the Links section? Did you miss the disclaimer saying that I'm in no way affiliated with Bauhaus, any members thereof, any labels they published under etc. etc. on the About section?
Punch in Bauhaus into Google, and the first link you get is the official website. Scour through the first couple of pages, and you'll get at least one or two other links to other pages on the official site, and the official site to at least one bandmember. My fanlisting is not even among the results in the first 10 pages... how they end up here to ask me those questions is really beyond me.
Gah.
Seriously, people need to learn to R E A D. I get the occasional "when is the dvd coming out?" email in regards to two of the movie fanlistings I run, and sometimes "where can I buy X book?" with one of my author fanlistings, or whether Jhonen's writing more Squee! comics. And then there's the emails once in a while that are of the variety where they expect me to be in touch with bands (like Cinema Strange, who aren't exactly that hard to get in touch with anyway, either directly/through their "PR person" Ludo), and I've even had someone email me asking what a good price would be to Ebay an original Siouxsie concert tshirt (how the hell would I know? try closed auction searches for comparable stuff?).
I run a fanlisting... I don't sell dvd's, or second hand vintage concert t-shirts or back catalogue books. A fanlisting, just a list, of fans of a subject. I make it perfectly clear on the sites in various places. And usually I provide links to official sites and links that would help people out with most of what they need.
This one gets the prize so far:
I AM A COORDINATOR OF GOTHIC ROCK FESTIVAL IN SPAIN I LIKE CONTAC WITH BAUHAUS FOR A EVENT IN 2005 CASTLE OF MANZANARES IN MADRID SPAIN, THE EVENT IS GREAT AND I FOR I INTERESTING PLAY FOR THE DREAM OF ALL SPAIN FANS OF ALL OF TIMES.
Good for you. The all caps is annoying by the way, so in future learn to turn the capslock off, especially if you're some kind of official coordinator.
Also, Bauhaus disbanded a good 2+ decades ago, though I know they've done some reunion tours etc. and are playing a festival in California sometime in spring this year. However, I still have a question. Why does my fanlisting look like a good place to ask how to get in touch with this band? Did you miss the link to the official Bauhaus site on the Links section? Did you miss the disclaimer saying that I'm in no way affiliated with Bauhaus, any members thereof, any labels they published under etc. etc. on the About section?
Punch in Bauhaus into Google, and the first link you get is the official website. Scour through the first couple of pages, and you'll get at least one or two other links to other pages on the official site, and the official site to at least one bandmember. My fanlisting is not even among the results in the first 10 pages... how they end up here to ask me those questions is really beyond me.
Gah.
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Date: 2005-02-03 09:25 am (UTC)... when's the next sisters of mercy album out?
/runs
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Date: 2005-02-03 02:30 pm (UTC)Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy credits internet icon Lilith with bringing the band back together for Spanish Goth-fest
Or something like that. :P
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Date: 2005-02-03 03:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-03 04:21 pm (UTC)BECOS ITS BAUHUAS FANLISTIGN OMGWTF!!!11oneone
*cough*
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Date: 2005-02-03 05:37 pm (UTC)I wish they'd release Cry-Baby on dvd already, that would definitely ease up on those emails that I get for that fanlisting.
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Date: 2005-02-03 05:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-03 08:52 pm (UTC)Yeeeah. But that would require reading. And as an administrator of a high traffic message board, you know how popular reading is among our fellow 'netizens.