Re: Advertising and using internet personalities to promote VTES

On Oct 7, 9:17 am, "Frederick Scott" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Aleksi Nuora" <aleksinu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On 6 loka, 23:45, The Lasombra <thelasom...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What should recognized volunteers be doing to promote VTES online?

1. Have a website for your playgroup with schedules, list of players
planning to attend the next session, etc.

Unfortunately, having either the kind of access to a hosted site or
the internet savvy to set this up in the kind of automated form which
is the only way it can work in the long run is rather rare.

Ironically, the Los Angeles playgroup (vtesinla.org) has a website.
It was quite good and had those kinds of bells and whistles on it.
(Not specifically that one, but a lot things like it and I'll bet
they could have set that up.)  They got tired of tending it and trying
to guard it against all the dipshits who came along and spammed it
and messed with it.  So now it's basically a mailing list.  And one of
the guys who organizes a weekly game basically posts his signup ***
on the mailing list.  Everyone who signs up responds and posts to the
whole list.  Clunky, but it works.

2. Convince WW to host a searchable list of playgroups and their
sites. Make sure that new players will find the list without someone
else telling them about it.

This, on the other, would be great!  (Or course, White Wolf having
access to that kind of internet savvy turns out to be pretty rare,
also.  Or so it seems...)  The only caveat is that there would need
to be some means of expiring entries that go unsupported for some
number of months.  Websites that just allow people to throw their
card on the wall and it sticks there forever tend to become unuseful
after a while due to the low signal-to-noise ratio.  And there would
probably need to be someone tending it and guarding against the same
kind of spammers who came to the Los Angeles website and dropped their
turds on it.

3. Submit your playgroup and site to said list.

I would do that.

Fred

As a repeat of my previous post in the other thread: I think a
community like this needs to exist. It needs to have moderators for
the simple ability to remove spam and get cooler heads to prevail in
those rare instances when serious arguments break out. I think have a
nice website with forum, new, articles, decklists, etc. would be
infinitely helpful to the community as a whole. I know the people are
stubborn about change, but I feel some change, some evolution, needs
to occur. Having a 'Super Site' like HCRealms.com or MTGSalvation.com/
magicards.info would be awesome. To be fair, Charlotte by Night is one
of the few sites with a slick outer layer for their site. The
Lasombra's site is very plain and hard to navigate for new people, I
think we need to get Lasombra, VTES Checklist, Extrala and Charlotte
by Night to combine forces... kinda like a Voltron of Vampires. A
Combined community is much stronger than a community of small masses.

-Brandon H.
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