I think we can all agree that the good old days of boosting other boards' memberships are gone, mostly because forums in general are enjoying less and less traffic.
Instead, I think we should try some IRL recruiting. I've got a flyer in mind, and I'd like to know if anyone can PDF it up...This would be for anyone's use. I would also encourage others to do the same.
I can scan a paper file into a pdf format, but it tends to look like a scanned piece of paper. I can't do graphic layout, either -- and I think something more than wall o text is what you're looking for.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 27, 2012, 08:37:14 PM
I can scan a paper file into a pdf format, but it tends to look like a scanned piece of paper. I can't do graphic layout, either -- and I think something more than wall o text is what you're looking for.
Yeah, I think it ought to be fairly well done. QG does layout pretty damn well. Not sure who else does.
I also nominate QG.
First draft:
QuoteDO YOU FEEL LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD IS TAKING CRAZY PILLS?
Look around. There are really no choices given to you anymore. Our political "parties" are indistinguishable groups of mush-mouthed prostitutes, our schools are a joke, the police don't even pretend to protect and serve these days, TV is a cultural wasteland, the internet has been reduced to twitter twerps and Facebook junkies...JUST WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
Yeah, we've noticed it, too. We don't know what to DO about it just yet, but we're working on that...And we want YOUR help. If you're tired of people dumping on your individuality as "issues", if you're tired of keeping a straight face when idiots try to keep running the same zero-sum games on you, if you've ever wanted to get a little of your own back, but you're just a little too smart to become violent about it...Then we may be what you've been looking for.
If you think maybe that's the case, then log on to http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php and take a peek around.
What we AREN'T: We aren't mentors or gurus. We aren't the answer to your problems. We aren't a violent movement, nor are we interested in any –isms you may have clinging to your backside like so many horrible leeches. We aren't political, except in the Hunter Thompson sense of the word, which is to say we work at controlling our environment, rather than espousing some collection of dumbasses who want to be elected. We aren't conspiracy theorists...The conspiracies WE worry about are openly bragged about by the conspirators, on all major media outlets.
What we ARE: A collection of people who have spent the last decade trying to learn to see things as they really are, after peeling back the advertising gimmicks, rhetoric, and conditioning that we – and you – have been exposed to our entire lives. We are a collection of pranksters, wise-asses, misfits, and malcontents, and possibly the last hope for bipedal life on Earth.
If none of this appeals to you, then perhaps you should put this leaflet back where you got it, quick. Before anyone sees you, and turns you in to The Authorities. Or just points at you and laughs. Put the damn thing down and pretend you never saw it. Good doggie.
Oh, yeah...This is one of the rare instances where I'm posting Kopyleft. No attribution required, change it as you see fit, etc. Just get the shit out there.
Full sheet portrait pull-tab style?
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 27, 2012, 09:09:58 PM
Full sheet portrait pull-tab style?
You're the expert. I was thinking full sheet, portrait...But if you can make it better, go for it.
I may make a change or two this evening. I'm not quite happy with it.
I'm all over this. BRB PROPAGANDA.
Suggestion: simplify to www.principiadiscordia.com. Theyll find the forum.
Better suggestion: QR code on the flyer.
I have no idea how to make a QR code, but if someone makes it I'll slap the image in there. I'll have a couple versions ready tonight.
If anyone is interested in doing actual hand outs, I can slap together a set of quartersheet flyers, too. Boston Common has a lot of silly religious people handing out shit when the weather gets nice, no reason we can't get in on that gig.
You can generate QR codes online.
http://www.qrstuff.com/
FIRST BATCH:
These four are full page, pull-tab flyers suitable for sticking up on bus stops and the like. They've all got the same text, a slightly edited version of Doc's from earlier in the thread, and the tabs just read "principiadiscordia.com"
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/783/pulltab1.jpg
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/8590/pulltab2.jpg
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2475/pulltab3.jpg
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/783/pulltab4.jpg
Images courtesy Hoopla and OpenClipArt.
I'll be working on a batch of full page QR code flyers, and a full page one with just the text. If anyone expresses an interest, I'll do a batch of quartersheet flyers, too.
I like #1 the best.
Quote from: navkat on March 30, 2012, 02:28:49 AM
I like #1 the best.
Yeah, I just kinda threw a lot of things at the wall for these, the nice thing about it is people can print whatever they want to put up :)
For the QR code, I think we would probably get the best conversion rate by having an actual landing page to send them to, instead of the forum index. I've put together a draft of what that thread could be, but I'd really like some help refining the message (especially since I really haven't been here long enough to qualify as a spokesperson for shit). I think it could benefit from some more sunshiny dadaism being tossed in.
Quote
Welcome home, babycakes.
You haven't been here before, but the place is a memory waiting to happen, a shadow so long it appears before the light. She does it to all of us, in her own way. Sorry about that.
You've felt it before, in your jitters and whatifs, the butterflies in your stomach and the throbbing hangover, all the joys and sorrows and strangeness that is your life. She's the heartbeat of the world, and she can't decide if it's a samba or a dirge. She's the smiles of toddlers and serial killers. Her laughter launches tsunamis and her footsteps crack tectonic plates. She's the slow heat death of the universe, and she will fuck with you just for the fun of it.
No, you can't just go home now.
Chaos is with us in everything, whether we choose to see it or not. It shaped our world, runs our weather, it makes of us whatever we are to become with very little regard for our personal narratives or reality filters. She's already got you. She always has.
We are a bunch of weirdos who have chosen to look at the world through the lens of Discordianism, in one form or another. We argue and got lost in tangents, but we also create and think and grow together in ways that we could not on our own. You're welcome to join us or run along now.
But Eris has you either way.
Good luck, babycakes.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 30, 2012, 03:56:44 AM
For the QR code, I think we would probably get the best conversion rate by having an actual landing page to send them to, instead of the forum index. I've put together a draft of what that thread could be, but I'd really like some help refining the message (especially since I really haven't been here long enough to qualify as a spokesperson for shit). I think it could benefit from some more sunshiny dadaism being tossed in.
Quote
Welcome home, babycakes.
You haven't been here before, but the place is a memory waiting to happen, a shadow so long it appears before the light. She does it to all of us, in her own way. Sorry about that.
You've felt it before, in your jitters and whatifs, the butterflies in your stomach and the throbbing hangover, all the joys and sorrows and strangeness that is your life. She's the heartbeat of the world, and she can't decide if it's a samba or a dirge. She's the smiles of toddlers and serial killers. Her laughter launches tsunamis and her footsteps crack tectonic plates. She's the slow heat death of the universe, and she will fuck with you just for the fun of it.
No, you can't just go home now.
Chaos is with us in everything, whether we choose to see it or not. It shaped our world, runs our weather, it makes of us whatever we are to become with very little regard for our personal narratives or reality filters. She's already got you. She always has.
We are a bunch of weirdos who have chosen to look at the world through the lens of Discordianism, in one form or another. We argue and got lost in tangents, but we also create and think and grow together in ways that we could not on our own. You're welcome to join us or run along now.
But Eris has you either way.
Good luck, babycakes.
I like where it is trying to go but, to me it seems the point of Discordianism isn't to look through the world through a specific lens, but to question the lenses you are using and craft new ones.
Also, BUMP
Hmmm.... This gave me an idea. Let me think it out a bit more. :twid writes a note to self:
I do love the posters.
Ok im going to throw my half assed idea out there. Cf my costume thread in omf. Do you live in a city? You know those clipboard people you see up ahead and cross the street to try and avoid only to be confronted with their partner? Oh its a good cause sure and you youll donate whenever you can to the multitude of causes. But what if you are walking down say boylston street and you run into either gogira or twid and they dont want your money at all. They just want to fuck with your head and maybe just maybe get you to reg to the forum. For free. Thoughts?
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 11, 2012, 06:45:44 AM
Ok im going to throw my half assed idea out there. Cf my costume thread in omf. Do you live in a city? You know those clipboard people you see up ahead and cross the street to try and avoid only to be confronted with their partner? Oh its a good cause sure and you youll donate whenever you can to the multitude of causes. But what if you are walking down say boylston street and you run into either gogira or twid and they dont want your money at all. They just want to fuck with your head and maybe just maybe get you to reg to the forum. For free. Thoughts?
Crazy apocalyptic sandwich people?
Clipboard people. Not sandwich people. There doesnt even have to be anything on the clipboard. Even better if there isnt and you hold your arms out to show them. You just have a retarded t shirt and an empty clipboard.
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on April 11, 2012, 07:17:00 AM
Clipboard people. Not sandwich people. There doesnt even have to be anything on the clipboard. Even better if there isnt and you hold your arms out to show them. You just have a retarded t shirt and an empty clipboard.
Hrm, I think I might like this idea.
I feel it needs some tweaking but the skeleton is there. Especially if they notice that theres nothing on the clipboard. But even better if you can give them the spiel about some dire need relating to discordia they agree and then you ask them to write their info down and theres nothing there. When they comment on it say something like "now youre paying attention!" or "thats what they want you to think."