Are you tired of all the self promotion and kickstarter threads?

[Goonalan]

Nope. I don't know how I survived without them previously, more please...

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

...I just don't read them.

*shrug*

 

[Stormonu]

I like checking out the kickstarter threads - it's fun to see what folks are making for RPG's these days (and it's where I saw the mammoth reprint/combo of the Tome of Horrors)

And, since I dislike popping over to the WotC boards, I like seeing when new info about 5E is available.

 

[dd.stevenson]

Sure it bothers me--except when I see one I'm interested in!

 

[Scylla]

Nope. It's easy enough to ignore a few messages if desired, and I think Kickstarter in particular can be a great thing for RPGs. There are a lot of really good projects that just need some capital to get going, and IMHO it's worth sifting through the chaff.

 

[Morrus]

I've said it before, but focusing on the funding method for most new RPG stuff this year is the wrong way to look at it. It's like saying a few years ago "Are you fed up of all these projects funded by bank loans?"

Kickstarter just happens to be the way these things are funded. The important thing is the product.

I'd agree that somebody who flies by, posts some ad copy and disappears into the night again pretty much defines the word "spam" - that's exactly what spam means. But there are also those who post something other than ad copy, and who stick around and discuss it. Those threads are useful, IMO.

And, more importantly, those threads are the ones that get the attention; the former just drop off the page. So there's a good way and a bad way to do it.

 

[Scott DeWar]

The peskiest one I have seen is that Perturbed Dragon thing . . . . .









What?!?

 

[trancejeremy]

I don't mind out and out promotion or a post about a press release, but what I hate are the stealth promotion threads that masquerade as discussion threads but are meant simply to pitch a product.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I don't mind out and out promotion or a post about a press release, but what I hate are the stealth promotion threads that masquerade as discussion threads but are meant simply to pitch a product.

Have there been (m)any threads like that here? I don't read every thread in every forum but I've never seen one like you describe. Any examples?

 

[Janx]

I've said it before, but focusing on the funding method for most new RPG stuff this year is the wrong way to look at it. It's like saying a few years ago "Are you fed up of all these projects funded by bank loans?"

Kickstarter just happens to be the way these things are funded. The important thing is the product.

I'd agree that somebody who flies by, posts some ad copy and disappears into the night again pretty much defines the word "spam" - that's exactly what spam means. But there are also those who post something other than ad copy, and who stick around and discuss it. Those threads are useful, IMO.

And, more importantly, those threads are the ones that get the attention; the former just drop off the page. So there's a good way and a bad way to do it.

It is probably the guys doing it the "bad way" that are creating the percieved problem for 40% of the polled people.

Sure, it's a minority, but 40% of the people asked have noticed it and don't like it.


Personally, it seems acceptable when:
a forum regular posts about a new game/kickstarter they discovered that they think the rest of us would like. This feels like information sharing, rather than spamming

a forum regular who works in the industry posts a thread about their new project. I think people are happy to hear about [MENTION=2]Piratecat[/MENTION] or [MENTION=63]RangerWickett[/MENTION]'s new projects, becuase they effectively KNOW them as forum-friends.

It seems less acceptable for a guy with 2 posts and both of them about his new product to hop on and post a thread that is purely about his new product. that feels like spam.