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Post by tigerlily on Oct 7, 2011 11:34:53 GMT -5
I don't know why, but today it comes so easy to me to write in english unlike the days and weeks before . But I'm not saying everything is correct, it is certainly full of mistakes, but I hope you can understand me Maybe it is the adrenaline from the excitement!  Keep posting! I love wishful thinking and I'm right there with you!!  |
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Post by koshka on Oct 7, 2011 11:41:56 GMT -5
ITA! Kelly Clarkson's website was completely updated three weeks before her single came out. I really don't think Adam isn't a priority, I just don't think he is a main priority YET. When his single gets closer to the release date, the other things will fall into place. There are some extremely successful artist who have bare minimum official websites. This is the offseason for Adam's team, things will start up when his single and album dates get closer. the single release is getting closer. The photoshooting is a good indicator for this, in my opinion. Also him getting a little bit nostalgic by posting an old performance of WWFM and changing his Avi. And thinking about Christmas I would guess they should release the single not later than early November, so in 3-4 weeks, but it is just a guess and wishfull thinking. I don't know why, but today it comes so easy to me to write in english unlike the days and weeks before :D. But I'm not saying everything is correct, it is certainly full of mistakes, but I hope you can understand me It always makes me laugh when non-english speaking folks make excuses for their English. I have a BA in Russian and haven't used it in YEARS. I don't think I could put a coherent sentence together anymore. Anyone brave enough to communicate in a language other than their native language gets my admiration. Its more unusual for me to even guess/assume posters are not native speakers simply by reading comments. I am by far much more interested hearing non-american perspectives than being the spelling or grammar police. Keep posting and bring your friends.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 11:48:28 GMT -5
With all due respect to people bitching over ALF there is one part of their assumptions that drives me nuts. They are constantly complaining about Adam not blogging there and communicating with his fans. But when the fan club was first set up I seem to recall that they were very careful to state that there was NO GUARANTEE how much or what kind of interaction Adam himself would have on the site. Also Adam has repeatedly stated that HIS preferred method of communication with his fans is twitter. He has established his twitter account as THE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC communication from him. He specifically refused to claim either his official Facebook or MySpace accounts as direct communication from him even saying flat out in the chat that he would NOT tell his fans that the posts there were from him and reiterated again that twitter would be his true authentic voice not management run as were the Facebook and MySpace accounts. Adam has indicated repeatedly that he has no desire to regularly blog. When he was the Vh1 posted artist he was supposed to blog often but made very few posts. If fans are pissed that ALF club doesn't deliver regular interaction from Adam then they have not been listening to Adam himself. Note I am not talking about any of the other legitimate complaints about the fan site but just the ones complaining at the lack of Adam interaction. Are you talking about other sites because I haven't seen one perosn here complain about not having interaction with Adam at ALF. Did I miss something? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 11:50:37 GMT -5
ITA! Kelly Clarkson's website was completely updated three weeks before her single came out. I really don't think Adam isn't a priority, I just don't think he is a main priority YET. When his single gets closer to the release date, the other things will fall into place. There are some extremely successful artist who have bare minimum official websites. This is the offseason for Adam's team, things will start up when his single and album dates get closer. the single release is getting closer. The photoshooting is a good indicator for this, in my opinion. Also him getting a little bit nostalgic by posting an old performance of WWFM and changing his Avi. And thinking about Christmas I would guess they should release the single not later than early November, so in 3-4 weeks, but it is just a guess and wishfull thinking. I don't know why, but today it comes so easy to me to write in english unlike the days and weeks before :D. But I'm not saying everything is correct, it is certainly full of mistakes, but I hope you can understand me This is so cute! Could it be that it's because you are reading more English now, here! |
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Post by nica575 on Oct 7, 2011 11:55:45 GMT -5
More #FF suggestion -- make your #FF tweet original -- do not repeat an identical tweet. On Twitter there are two general rules that always apply: - the hashtag (#whatever) cannot be first or it will be disregarded. - repetitive tweets are ignored. So two of these tweets do not "count" #FF @adamlambert because he wears khaki boardshorts. (does not count) For a great #FF add @adamlambert because he is so entertaining. (counts once) For a great #FF add @adamlambert because he is so entertaining. (exact repeat does NOT count) RT For a great #FF add @adamlambert because he is so entertaining. (first retweet by each ID counts) FYI Adam is currently #2 for Follow Friday with 5283 Points vs the person in #1 with 145268 points. www.followfriday.com/www.followfriday.com/ffvalidator?....90364313563136Looks great for a person without a brain tumor - sorry for the sarcasm, but that seems to be a popular thing to get the points for some reason... The fact is that the rate of growth is almost at a standstill despite the #FF: twittercounter.com/compare/adamlambert/week/followersWe need new REAL ADAM music and a media push. (but if anyone has a free download of anything unofficial-new - please PM). |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 11:55:59 GMT -5
Are you talking about other sites because I haven't seen one perosn here complain about not having interaction with Adam at ALF. Did I miss something? Some of the recent "uprising" on ALF itself has included those comments. I agree that expecting Adam to spend a bunch of time interacting with his fans anywhere, even on Twitter, is unreasonable. Most of the other complaints are very valid. I agree with what many others have said: for an artist of Adam's calibre to have such a lame online presence is inexplicable. |
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Post by aralid on Oct 7, 2011 11:56:24 GMT -5
Maybe it is the adrenaline from the excitement! Keep posting! I love wishful thinking and I'm right there with you!! possible, a lot of exciting things has happened today (today for me): Adams album photoshoot, the berting of this DJ (although we can not know if he is telling the truth, but it is nice to read), this annoying bastard albums. It is just my school english, the only thing I've done since school is reading books in english from time to time. Since now had no experience in writing in english. Between reading and writing there is a big difference. |
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Post by SusieFierce on Oct 7, 2011 11:57:15 GMT -5
With all due respect to people bitching over ALF there is one part of their assumptions that drives me nuts. They are constantly complaining about Adam not blogging there and communicating with his fans. But when the fan club was first set up I seem to recall that they were very careful to state that there was NO GUARANTEE how much or what kind of interaction Adam himself would have on the site. Also Adam has repeatedly stated that HIS preferred method of communication with his fans is twitter. He has established his twitter account as THE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC communication from him. He specifically refused to claim either his official Facebook or MySpace accounts as direct communication from him even saying flat out in the chat that he would NOT tell his fans that the posts there were from him and reiterated again that twitter would be his true authentic voice not management run as were the Facebook and MySpace accounts. Adam has indicated repeatedly that he has no desire to regularly blog. When he was the Vh1 posted artist he was supposed to blog often but made very few posts. If fans are pissed that ALF club doesn't deliver regular interaction from Adam then they have not been listening to Adam himself. Note I am not talking about any of the other legitimate complaints about the fan site but just the ones complaining at the lack of Adam interaction. As far as I know, that's the least of what the upset is about. People are frustrated that they were pressured to re-up their membership, yet their most basic questions ( uh, what are we even paying for again?) can't be answered. Even the site administrators don't have answers. I couldn't care less if Adam has been making an appearance or blogging (though I think it's a great platform, if and when he ever decides to use it). From what I can tell, people just want to have some idea of what they are paying for. It's not that much to ask. GroundCntrl did a major email push about why we had to renew our membership NOW and when we did, they had no answers to what we had just purchased. I don't go there, I hang out here and on Twitter, and certainly never expect Adam to make an appearance here or answer any questions we have, so that's not even an iota of the equation. HOWEVER, I will say, that if suddenly we didn't have a new daily thread up for several days in a row or there were no mods to answer questions or regulate things, I would sure as hell seek someplace else more efficient to hang out. And I'm not paying to be here. To many people (I know a few), ALF is all they know. They haven't ventured to other boards, etc. because they don't know how they work or whatever. Yeah, I don't get it either. |
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Post by rihannsu on Oct 7, 2011 12:01:47 GMT -5
With all due respect to people bitching over ALF there is one part of their assumptions that drives me nuts. They are constantly complaining about Adam not blogging there and communicating with his fans. But when the fan club was first set up I seem to recall that they were very careful to state that there was NO GUARANTEE how much or what kind of interaction Adam himself would have on the site. Also Adam has repeatedly stated that HIS preferred method of communication with his fans is twitter. He has established his twitter account as THE GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC communication from him. He specifically refused to claim either his official Facebook or MySpace accounts as direct communication from him even saying flat out in the chat that he would NOT tell his fans that the posts there were from him and reiterated again that twitter would be his true authentic voice not management run as were the Facebook and MySpace accounts. Adam has indicated repeatedly that he has no desire to regularly blog. When he was the Vh1 posted artist he was supposed to blog often but made very few posts. If fans are pissed that ALF club doesn't deliver regular interaction from Adam then they have not been listening to Adam himself. Note I am not talking about any of the other legitimate complaints about the fan site but just the ones complaining at the lack of Adam interaction. Are you talking about other sites because I haven't seen one perosn here complain about not having interaction with Adam at ALF. Did I miss something? Well, I haven't followed it closely but I have seen plenty of comments in amongst the other stuff about how Adam hasn't posted there in forever and Adam doesn't care about us because he doesn't post there, etc. It's not the main thing they are complaining about but it is there. But there are a lot of fans in every fan community that totally ignore what their object of adoration actually says and does and create their own ideas of what they expect then bitch when they don't get it. Just like all the AI fans that latched on to Randy and Kara's comments about Adam being a rocker and putting out a rock album and totally ignored everything that Adam himself actually said then bitched about Adam not doing what he said he would. Just another form of delusion no different than the Adommy cray they hear only what they want to hear and ignore anything that doesn't fit their own viewpoint. I didn't expect anything more from ALF than the potential for future pre-sales. Don't hang out there because I like here better. My impression was that Adam's idea for ALF was a place where fans could interact with each other not a place for him to interact. The whole point system on the site was designed to encourage interaction between fans not between Adam and the fans. That flopped because people chose to game the system just to rack up points for the rewards then complained that the rewards were crap. Personally I don't give a crap what the site looks like because my only reason for maintaining a membership is to have an advantage if they get to the point of tiered access to pre-sales and length of membership becomes a factor like it is at U2.com. ETA: U2.com is considered crap by the fans as well and pretty much all the same complaints that people have about ALF and fans refer to other artist who supposedly have fantastic sites and when I've checked them out have found the same complaints in their forums as well so my general consensus is that all official sites are crap and fan sites are the best. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2011 12:07:45 GMT -5
I don't hangout there either. ATop is home. But when someone new Googles "Adam Lambert site" or "Adam Lambert fan" and they get either AO or ALF as the first sites, it's not a good first impression. Not sure what effect it would have on someone Googling further because I have been down the rabbit hole for far too long to be unbiased! ETA: I am not a Daughtry fan but I have checked out his site periodically just to compare and I think his site is way better than AO. It's easier to read and seems to be kept up to date better. |
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