Posted by Jim Shady at h-64-236-224-52.twi.com on November 20, 2001 at 11:49:40:
In Reply to: They should warn somebody... posted by SilentBob2002 on November 20, 2001 at 10:46:07:
Can I take it that you would like advance notice of when the Reds might be planning to post, so you can make sure you're on the Board when this happens? I'll assume this to be the case.
I see from your earlier posts (which I did read) that you're sixteen and still at school. You're at school between 7am and 3pm, and you're not allowed to stay up past a certain time, which is unfortunately when the Reds are most likely to post.
See, it's like this. You're a schoolkid with a fairly defined life. You know when you're going to be at school, you know when you're going to be at home and you have a fairly firm time that you go to bed.
The Reds are all adults without this kind of rigid structure. What's more, as most of them work in the film industry, their hours are even more screwed-up than most people with ordinary office jobs - I've see Lee post at 5am after a night shoot.
The Reds can't say when they're going to be online because they don't know when they're going to be in front of a computer - that's the nature of what they do. I could tell you that I'll read the Board at anytime between the hours of 5am and 1pm EST because those are the hours I work, and I have a computer on my desk when I'm working. Obviously you're not hanging out for my posts, but I can give you a clear idea of when I'll be posting because that's how my work is. And at the same time, I won't always be at my desk, and I can spend hours out of the office doing something else.
Lee and the Reds post whenever they feel like it, and if you think about it, that's pretty much the same for all of us. I don't know who's going to be on when I log on in the morning, and I'm also usually long gone by the time any Reds post, but I have managed to catch all of them at some point during the time I've been on this Board. You have to be patient and also a bit lucky, but it's nice when it happens.
So there's your answer in a nutshell - even if they did say when they might possibly post, it's all subject to change, and there would be a lot of let-down people if that happened. Sorry not to be more positive, but you already get so much more access here to the main people than you would anywhere else - it's just bad luck not to be around when the Reds are.
Jim