Derren Brown: Archive
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From: nxnzerx
Date: Wed May 21, 2003 8:43pm
Subject: Re: the forum: scam?????? or a good thing???
Very true and a very perceptive post. Its amazing what blowing a
little virtual smoke up someones virtual ass does...
--- In a previous message, Jo
wrote:
> derren and his manager have played a little game called
*suggestion*
> on lauren...but whever it's a bad thing or a good thing is just
down
> to how you view it. Given the popularity of this forum derren's
> people obviously thought it would be a good idea to have an
official
> forum. But there was a problem. Laurens forum was too popular, and
> everyone felt comfortable in it and had a sense of "fan spirit" so
to
> speak. They knew that if they set up a forum, hardly anyone would
go
> to it, out of a sense of duty to this one. So, they couldnt just
set
> up another one...they had to get rid of this one. They told Lauren
> that they were going to make hers "official" so she would send all
> the members over there and shurt this one down. Whats really
> happening is derren's people are setting up their own forum,
taking
> all of laurens members, while at the same time ensuring that it
will
> be the most popular one, by having this one deleted. Then they
have
> given lauren the job of being ONE OF the moderators, so she thinks
it
> will still be her forum....which sadly it isnt anymore. The good
way
> of looking at it is, you all have a better forum now.....:P
> personally i like the new forum, i just thought i'd say what the
> buisness move was...
