From: Mike Fulmer, fulmer.4@osu.edu
Subject: Re: Must. Crush. All. Dissent.
Date: 2/25/2002 9:23:00 AM
To: Seance Mailing List - The Church, seance@lists.no-fi.com


John,
   I don't see anyone here "shutting down dissent." I do see fans 
discovering ill-informed "reviews" of our favorite band, and trying 
to counter with their own thoughts/insights, hoping that someone 
reaching for the latest Creed will look over, see AENT nearby, and 
think of the comments posted on VH1...then probably buy Creed anyway.
   Maybe some critics need a thicker skin. They should know they will 
dissapoint some no matter what they say. And VH1 seems to encourage 
"vituperative denuniciations" by inviting reader comments with the 
following:

"SPEAK YOUR MIND!
Are our critics completely correct or completely nuts?
Talk about this record on our boards."

BTW, I think Kevin Bonham's (carniphage) reply is wonderful: makes 
his points clearly, calmly, and with just a little edge towards C. 
Bottomley.

Mike F.


At 8:58 AM -0500 2/25/02, John L. Micek wrote:
>Guys:
>You can flambe me if you want to over this, but I've got to get 
>something off my chest.
>I have, of late, been noticing an alarming trend when it comes to 
>fan evaluation of reviews of "After Everything."
>That's this:
>Good reviews are embraced and warmly received. Bad reviews, such as 
>the type that ran on VH-1 over the weekend, or the early
>one written by that other, poor unfortunate whose name eludes me, 
>are subjected to flame campaigns and orchestrated
>efforts to flood the message boards with vituperative denuniciations 
>of the offending  critic. This seems counter-productive to me,
>and not a little insidious.