I'm happy to post it on r/movies if you'd like, TC. Just give me an idea of what you want the post to be and we can coordinate the time. I have a semi-long posting history so it wouldn't look too out of place.

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A couple of other angles:

(1) You post it yourself and ask people for critiques and suggestions. Tell them you just got out of Beta and launched the site, that it's been getting good publicity but that you want Reddit's take. High risk/reward, obviously. You might be panned as a shill, the post might be removed, or you might get some bad feedback that you have trouble digesting. Of course if they adopt it, you're set.

(2) You offer to do an AMA in the movies section. I don't recall your particular background, but "Hollywood screenwriter and developer of The Projection List" might get you past the mods. You answer questions, but you drive people to the site.

(3) We post twitter posts referencing the site, but not the site itself. I.e, if you get a big celeb or personality mentioning the site, we promote that person's tweet (and you by proxy).

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These are all good ideas, but I feel like a "random" poster is the way to go, and we all just vote it up quickly. I'm not anywhere close to AMA status - or, I'd at least feel like a moron answering questions in that regard. And while I got a ton of great tweet/responses, they're not from notable enough people. No one famous. Just a few critics with 10K+ followers that no one really gives a crap about.

So I think we just keep it simple, have someone volunteer to post a somewhat catchy headline, and go from there. Then maybe "The Projection List" can swoop in and answer any questions if need be.

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I'm happy to post it on r/movies if you'd like, TC. Just give me an idea of what you want the post to be and we can coordinate the time. I have a semi-long posting history so it wouldn't look too out of place.

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PERFECT!

Just name a time tomorrow morning (central time) that works best for you, and we'll go from there. I'll throw out a couple headline options in the meantime...

Thanks!

I'm in the office by 8 am central, and head out for lunch at 11 am. Any time between those works for me.

Here are the two headlines I've seen so far...

"Awesome new resource featuring every movie, trailer, VOD title and Blu-ray release now through 2020"

"The Projection List launches - a site dedicated to showcasing the complete upcoming theatrical, DVD, and trailer release schedule. A beautiful functional site that has been sorely needed."

So do we go something along those lines or something more sensational? What do you guys think?

Thanks for the central time clarification. Being on Pacific Coast sucks when coordinating times with texags. Made playing destiny a little more interesting when trying to schedule game times

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I'm in the office by 8 am central, and head out for lunch at 11 am. Any time between those works for me.

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Wanna say 9 AM central?

I'll post a new thread later today, then tomorrow at 9 AM, you can just post the link to your Reddit post in the thread.

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I'm in the office by 8 am central, and head out for lunch at 11 am. Any time between those works for me.

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Wanna say 9 AM central?

I'll post a new thread later today, then tomorrow at 9 AM, you can just post the link to your Reddit post in the thread.

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Yep, 9 AM is great.

I'm thinking if it's just a headline about the site, it'll look too promotion-y and won't garner all that much attention. IMO, it should be a piece of news that grabs everyone's attention and gets everyone to upvote, and more importantly, click the link.

Like maybe it could be about a projection of a SW trailer with Avengers?

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Just have the post be organic. Mention tweets from some high profile people in the industry who love TPL and that was how you found it. Say it has become a new source for you keeping up to date on movies.

Tc are there any good tweets out there you would think qualify for this?

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So people literally post notable tweets as their headlines? Or just like "So and so tweeted about this awesome site" as a headline?

Either way there were plenty of great tweets from January. I just need a better idea of how to format/present them in a headline.

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I wouldn't post the tweet as the headline. Just use the tweet in the body of the post as the organic way that someone found the site. They may not be the most noticeable, but still it adds authenticity to the post as it provides a history as to how someone found the site.

Some ideas for a title

Found something that replaces that Blu-ray sticky on top of r/movies

My movie addiction just got another fix - I personally like this one. It is pretty non-descriptive to get past the mods, but I think enticing for someone to want to click on, especially if it gets a lot of upvotes at once.

I would specifically try to avoid using the term site or anything like that as it may still come across as a promotional post.

News would be the best, but I am not certain if TC has anything as he mentioned earlier.

Anything big in the next week or two that could be an organic post? Suicide Squad trailer date? Spider Man or Star Wars news?

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My movie addiction just got another fix - I personally like this one. It is pretty non-descriptive to get past the mods, but I think enticing for someone to want to click on, especially if it gets a lot of upvotes at once.

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I really like this one. Super simple and feels totally real.

As for a news headline, yeah, I just don't have anything headline worthy as of now. And I feel like a Star Wars mention would have to go on the Star Wars Reddit.

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Anything big in the next week or two that could be an organic post? Suicide Squad trailer date? Spider Man or Star Wars news?

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Nothing I can think of. It's a dead time for trailers/trailer news right now. Only thing of note is the Avengers trailer on Thursday but that's already been posted everywhere.

One option could be just to focus on the trailer page as a whole. This is super generic, but something like...

"Found a list with dates for every big trailer release this year"

But what I'd really like is the site as a whole focused on, not just one specific part.

Yeah, the trailer page really is the star of the site, so that's a good idea.

Here's what I'm thinking:

"My addiction to movie trailers just got another fix. The release schedule for all trailers for the rest of the year."

And either a direct link to the trailer page, or I could make it a "discussion post", where I can further explain projected dates, etc, and put the link in there.

In case you're not familiar with Reddit, this is an example of a discussion post, whereas a regular post is just the headline and the direct link.

A discussion post allows for more information, but it could also mean less clicks on the link.

Not a bad idea.

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Yeah, the trailer page really is the star of the site, so that's a good idea.

Here's what I'm thinking:

"My addiction to movie trailers just got another fix. The release schedule for all trailers for the rest of the year."

And either a direct link to the trailer page, or I could make it a "discussion post", where I can further explain projected dates, etc, and put the link in there.

In case you're not familiar with Reddit, this is an example of a discussion post, whereas a regular post is just the headline and the direct link.

A discussion post allows for more information, but it could also mean less clicks on the link.

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Love it. But could we change one word? How about "TENTATIVE release schedule for all trailers..."? It drive me nuts when people assume it's an official list, and I don't want to add to the problem by suggesting it's THE release schedule, if that makes sense. So my vote would be...

"My addiction to movie trailers just got another fix. Tentative release schedule for all trailers for the rest of the year."

I really, really like that. As for the type of post, I say we just keep it regular.

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One last suggestion: delete the planning posts once the plan goes into action. I think the backlash if someone were suspicious and did a google search would be unfavorable. That's my CYA suggestion, anyway.

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For sure. Good idea.

Done. Now we just gotta start a thread here and maximize upvotes tomorrow.

NICE.

Will start a thread today after lunch w/ the details.

This might be nit-picking, but saying "Tentative" might tip off who its from because it sounds like a CYA word to me. It sounds more natural without it, IMO.

Yeah I don't love the word tentative either, but I can understand why TC doesn't want it to look like it's an official list. Maybe 'projected' instead of tentative?

estimated?
potential?
forecast?

Agreed. Projected works for me. Or, I guess I'm fine with just "release schedule."

Projected is a much more neutral word and it would be from the website

Do we need to have everyone delete their posts from past couple pages regarding this?

Projected it is, then.

I seriously doubt anyone's going to do a search. If, on the off chance it blows up super fast, when just delete at that point, but I seriously doubt it'll matter.

If anything, only my past history matters. I'd posted it one or two times but I already deleted them. They didn't get much views anyway.

I would also post this on Nerdery as those guys probably have Reddit accounts.

Maybe Gyneral too, but that may backfire. Worse than 4chan

No General is not worse than 4Chan

Old rivalries on the other hand has actually gotten people fired from their jobs for comments made on the Internet. And that is still not 4chan level

Let's push this operation back another day. Give us some time to rally the forces here on Texags. Let's get the post out tonight and push to a couple of boards (The Nerdery, General, Aggies Only, Pub Forum, etc) and rally the base.

Fine by me, but is there really a difference between 30 upvotes and 100? Between this board and the Nerdery, I was thinking that'd be enough to do the trick. But if I should post on the general as well, along with a couple others, that's fine. I'm just afraid if we push it back a day, and I post something today, that a lot of people will forget by Thursday morning. Either way, I have to run a quick errand and will be back in 45 min or so. Will post then, but let me know you guys think as far as tomorrow vs Thursday. As much as I'd love the help, honestly, I get kind of uncomfortable turning this into a big thing across all of TexAgs. But you guys know Reddit way better than I do. Whatever it takes, I'm all for.

Thanks!

No need to push it. We can get it to the front page with 30 upvotes or so in the first half hour.

And a thread on the GB, Nerdery, and here is not really overdoing it. I'll post the link on all of them tomorrow. I really think it'll be enough.

Reddit is very hivemind-y. Once it cracks the front page of r/movies, other users will do the rest.