Posted by Gremlin [65.186.201.54 - dsl-65-186-201-54.telocity.com] on 23 May 2002 at 01.41.35 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Here are the two other [earlier] posts to the group that he's made.... posted by Hunter on 23 May 2002 at 01.11.12 ZuluTime:

TO: Anyone with any control over the flier or the site it advertises.

Tha'd be me.

I'm a student at Oklahoma City University.

Noted. A brain-damaged ex-violinist no longer making a thousand bucks a month. And a student.

I don't usually have much time to fret over matter on the Internet; so, when I joined your StreetTeam, I just printed up the flier as it was.

Good job.

Submitting it for administrations approval, (so as I could post it,) I got a bad reaction from the administrator - who, first of all, didn't approve of the shown ad; but, when she went ahead and briefly browsed the site, said, (in so-many words,) "Face of Satan . com!?! God Hates Brains . com!?! Who's going to want to go here???"

If it actually had anything to do with the admin of a school in Oklahoma, I could probably provide a list. Since it's nothing more than an immaterial ad hominem, I'll disregard it.

So I have a few suggestions - the first few regard the flier directly.

Since that's the subject, and all.

We are living in a society of "instant-gratification."

So print it out instantly.

Notably, we don't need "instant-gratification;" but, as all the other ads promise that, the flier should use it to pull people to the place where they should learn that they need it.

What, like amazon.com?

(Specifically, the headline ought to be less "insulting" and more "encouraging;" people should be addressed as "people," [or something in the neutral-to- positive range,] instead of "maggots;"

Right. SlipKnot, whose singer has an interest in Wasted, Inc., never really got very far with that sort of marketing; their website, incidentally, is at PeopleEqualShit.com if you'd like to do a little more marketing research.

and, for better gratification, those who take time to read the flier should be motivated to receive something more specific than "cool stuff.")

Okay: Put up these fliers, and we'll show you a way to fecklessly demand $184,000 from the Duhmerican government....

The next suggestions are for the site itself -

Which site? NewsoftheStoopid.com? Okay....

specifically, the front page. Make the titles and title-graphics for each section more inviting, like The Bible; though The Bible may, in your eyes, be wrong - it has worked.

The bible isn't wrong, per se--any more than The Hobbit is wrong. It's fiction. It only becomes wrong when presented as fact.

And, in it, women are raped, prophets are murdered and slaughtered, and many massacre-filled wars are fought; but they do not call it "the Big Book of Bloody Butt-mashing," because no one would read it then.

Actually, I'd buy a dozen copies if it were called that. So would my readers.

They call it "The Bible," with emphasis on "The," because it "The" Book-of-Law, [Bible.] The Bible is just a conveniant example, (because it WORKED!)

Yeah. The law works. Which is why you haven't got $184,000 at the moment.

You, making note of the example, ought to make the titles and title- graphics of each section tell more of "what the section of the site " and less "what the section of the site might say." (E.g. Nothing negative - like "GodHatesBrains.com" - but again neutral-to- positive - like "TheResultsOfIntellect.com," or something like that.)

I'm not entirely certain exactly what's wrong with you at this point; but if Oklahoma City University has a marketing programme, I'm not in any hurry to recommend it to anyone.

Hopefully, Jay Hubbard - "Your Friendly Prophet-dude"

Realistically,