[ SECRET POST #2890 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2890 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

He sounds pretty obnoxious, tbh. I once asked an author (not him) perhaps a dumb question via email and got a rather curt response. I was ten years old, shockrd that an author I lived wasn't perfectly polite at all times, and I never read another book by her again. I think people who ask qurstions like that are just young and want to engage their favourite author somehow. There's no need to be snarky about it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's true if you think of it as one question from one kid. But that's not actually how things work in the real world, (if you're Neil Gaiman, anyway!) it's more like hundreds of questions every day, most of which you've already answered dozens of times and most of which can be easily found if people just Googled for it. Instead, they want you to do the work for them. Nothing says "my time is more valuable than yours" than asking a person an easy question you could've found the answers to on your own in less than five minutes.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice if/when an author is extremely patient with fans and their questions. But I don't blame them if they occasionally get short with people, because you can't expect them to have limitless reserves of patience. Gaiman wasn't particularly nasty about it, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Why not just ignore questions like that, though? I think that would be the polite thing to do. Nobody's asking him to give a thoughtful response to everything. I just think it's in bad taste to make fun of your fans.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure he does ignore questions like that, because again, he probably receives hundreds of questions per day, but only answers a small handful. Choosing to answer the occasional dumb question makes sense because it might actually help cut down on the amount of people who ask it. At any given time, there'll be a significant number of newbies stumbling onto Gaiman's work, his blog, etc. Reminding people that some of the really common questions have already been answered is a good idea.

Gently reminding people that they can and should put in minimal effort to answer their own questions is not "making fun of fans". Especially when the second fan "just wanted to hear from [him]" and was asking a really, really basic question that she could've found by looking at the Amazon listing for that book. Gaiman made a dad joke and she got her wish. Again, how's that making fun?

[(Anonymous)]

You were shocked that a writer was a real person and not a fantasy ideal, and you never got over the fact that people who write are real people and not fantasy ideals?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes he's a real person but he's also the shopfront for a business. If someone in retail treated their customers like crap, would they be surprised if that customer took their business elsewhere?

Stop putting artists on some kind of holier than thou pedestal. They're selling their shit, not running a charity, and their behavior reflects on that.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry a ten year old wasn't the epitome of logic and reason.