Board Thread:Off-topic Discussion/@comment-34929634-20180307190349/@comment-27713488-20180310101647

Lammostnight wrote: True. Okay, specific actionable goals it is from now on.

I was hoping for other things too - e.g. creating lists of which sites to send press kit to as well - so press kit dissemination as well as creation. (There's more than one list involved.) I think brainstorming this and other things qualifies. I'm not trying to say you shouldn't try to do anything open-ended. I worry you may have taken what I said as a harsher rebuke than it was meant. It's clear you're trying to do something good here; it's just that your original post is somewhat hard to follow and I'd discourage using it as a model for future efforts. For my part I understood that you wanted to help SL with marketing, but beyond that I wasn't sure what you wanted out of this discussion.

For that particular thing people do sometimes make suggestions that SL doesn't follow up on for lack of time, energy, or inclination - for example, it's been mentioned that there are various boards on Reddit that would be interested to know about some of SL's work. Most of the time involved in marketing though is actually the research, which doesn't involve direct interaction with the ADHD-type consumers.....but ok, I'll stop there. As above, that's not something I'm trying to say you shouldn't do. If you want to have a brainstorming discussion or aggregate information about something, that's concrete enough that people can understand what you're trying to do and engage with it. (Though if you left it at "let's do research" the likely response would be "how?") I know SL seeks feedback on blurbs. Mostly, I think we could do the writing ourselves, or at least brainstorm some of the hooks and run it by her. I get Duke's point on writing verbosely - I can write clickbait copy, it's practically a job requirement, I'd just rather not. But a list of bullet points should be k, at least.

Although I'd argue that the clickbait-style actually cheapens SL's stuff, but...never mind! As I think Leto was getting at, there's a middle ground between "lengthy blog post" and "clickbait" that ends up somewhere interesting yet concise. A lot of the ADHD consumers have these days isn't really ADHD and doesn't need to be treated quite that way, it's just an understandable reaction to having to wade through a slew of offerings. There's a lot of games out there, and a lot of porn, and a lot of both categories is stuff that is not worth anyone's time. That picture you linked, Decanter, I know it's Touhou, but it looks like Umineko. Like the art LOLtohru was thinking of making, it has 3 yanderes from 3 different IPs - 4 if we count the girl in the painting. Could probably look up its tags on gelbooru or somewhere.

DukeLeto7 wrote: Meaningless verbose pedantry.

"Actionable" usually means "something you can get sued over". For example, if we used the slogan "Nobody doesn't like Sierra Lee", we'd be fighting off a pack of rabid Sara Lee Corporation attack lawyers in short order. I think that's the sort of thing we want to avoid. C'mon man, I'm obviously invoking definition 2 in this business-oriented non-law context.