{"id":361,"date":"2009-10-06T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-10-06T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:36:37","slug":"easy-to-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2009\/10\/06\/easy-to-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy to contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel strongly that this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/10\/promiscuous-dispersal-of-your-email-address.html\">http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/10\/promiscuous-dispersal-of-your-email-address.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>is true.<\/p>\n<p>If you search my forums, you will notice I occasionally ask people to email me at<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:cliff@positech.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow\">cliff@positech.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n. I don&#8217;t use a NOSPAM or an image or try and get you to do some algebra before you get to see the mailto link.<\/p>\n<p>People email me for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1) They are in the business and want to sell my games\/do a deal\/review my games\/interview me<\/p>\n<p>2) They have technical support issues<\/p>\n<p>3) They hate me and want to tell me<\/p>\n<p>4) They like my games and want to tell me<\/p>\n<p>Only a stupid businessperson would not want to read 1) and 2).<\/p>\n<p>3) is easily laughed at and deleted.<\/p>\n<p>4) makes me feel good.<\/p>\n<p>oh and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>5) Spam.<\/p>\n<p>99% of spam is filtered out by spam filters. the other 1% is trivially spotted and deleted. I don&#8217;t think the odd click of the delete button is a hard price to pay to enable the people who play my games to get to contact the developer when they have to. I don&#8217;t respond to EVERY email, but I do read them.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t big companies do this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel strongly that this: http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/10\/promiscuous-dispersal-of-your-email-address.html is true. If you search my forums, you will notice I occasionally ask people to email me at cliff@positech.co.uk . I don&#8217;t use a NOSPAM or an image or try and get you to do some algebra before you get to see the mailto link. People email me for<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Easy to contact<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2009\/10\/06\/easy-to-contact\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}