the mind boggles

[ratcreature]

One of the recent posts to the FCA-L list amused me greatly. Well, amused in that slightly cranky way you get amused at weird mailing list posts by people who are, or come across as clueless. It said something like "Hi, I just joined and want some advice on an AAR fanfic. Thanks." and contained a link. I mean, who would seriously expect that this kind of post leads to good replies? Not only have I (and I bet a good portion of the list) no idea what "AAR" is -- a series, movie, book, what? -- the poster also says nothing about what kind of "advice" they're looking for, nor anything about the story, except that it is "lengthy." And the poster expects what exactly? That you join, post a link without saying anything, and a review/beta committee, interested in whatever fandom that acronym stands for, will magically appear to help with your story?

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[ane.livejournal.com]

Since I was downloading a file last night I checked the link. Couldn't figure out what fandom it was supposed to be from the codes or summary so shrugged and went elsewhere. Archives should at least make it easy to see what the fandom is although I suppose most people would be going in through the front.

But yeah it was a really clueless way to join a list and try to get help. I'm liking my 'must pass a common sense quiz to join a list' idea more and more.