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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

How Not to Spam a Blog - Specifically, How Not to Spam The Tavern (Rant Warning)

I got this message on Facebook earlier today:

Random Facebook Dude:
Greets Eric, how goes it? 
Was wondering if you wanted to cross promote your blog with our event by being a part of our supporters program. Please let me know if this sounds like something that might interest you OK? 
Thanks man.  :)
So, a few questions and observations:

Point The First - What event?

Point The Second - What supporters program?

Point The Third - It is most likely The Tavern's reach is a bit greater than Random Facebook Dude and his "our" event. So, what does this supporters program do? What benefit does it offer those that join it? I suspect the benefit is to that of Random Facebook Dude

Point the Fourth - Random Facebook Dude wants me to put The Tavern's reputation behind his mystery event. Why the fuck would I do that without knowing ANYTHING about it?

Point the Fifth - That middle paragraph? Doesn't even mention the blog by name. I suspect it was a cut and paste that was sent to others. Damn it! I might not be special :(

Point the Sixth - On closer look, he appears to be a Kickstarter promoter of sorts. I guess he doesn't read The Tavern.

I have no problem helping creators and publishers in the OSR and beyond. This shit just pisses me off.





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11 comments:

  1. The Evil Dungeon MasterApril 22, 2015 at 8:15 PM

    First things first, if you are going to ask someone to do something for you, spell their name correctly ;)

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  2. Greyhawk GrognardApril 22, 2015 at 8:16 PM

    I get regular "would you like to do a link share?" emails.

    Dude, I named it "Blogs I read" for a fucking reason. I don't read your blog, I'm not putting it up there.

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  3. Doc SavageApril 22, 2015 at 8:43 PM

    Greets Derek,

    Let's cross-promote by attaching your blog goodwill to my shady Kickstarter project!

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    1. TenkarApril 22, 2015 at 8:57 PM

      "wonder if it was Stephen H.? He was pestering me and my staff for my real space convention about cross promoting his and our conventions"

      this was on G+ and the poster was correct in his assumption ;)

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  4. Sagawork StudiosApril 22, 2015 at 11:01 PM

    Erik, I think you may have been trolled.

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  5. n8mcdApril 23, 2015 at 1:57 AM

    There is a whole cottage industry forming around providing BS support and promotion services to Crowd-funders. Because you blog about it, you were just one of a bazillion who got the spam... alas #nospecialsnowflake

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  6. Joe NuttallApril 23, 2015 at 3:40 AM

    It's not half as annoying as automated spam telephone calls, or people plugging their OSR blogs in your comments section. I would post about that on my blog explorebeneathandbeyond.blogspot.com but my blog's more about OSR rules / ideas / suggestions. I'll make a special effort to avoid doing that in future ;-)

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  7. Chris GonnermanApril 23, 2015 at 8:33 AM

    I get these things all the time with relation to basicfantasy.org or my Facebook page for the game. Since we never promote for-profit items, I never have to think about it much.

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  8. R.J. ThompsonApril 23, 2015 at 9:03 AM

    I got this too. The exact same message, in a comment on one of the SWAp day posts. It was via G+, though. Deleted it from the comments.

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  9. Boric GlanduumApril 23, 2015 at 3:24 PM

    My stuff haz good feelz. I like hav ur name linkd with my stuff. That makes bigger good feelz. Good feelz 4 all is great!
    And throw me $$money$$ too. ill share wit u i promise.

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