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kage wrote:Also It seems to me you do not understand the difference between a rant and a critique, so time for some enlightenment,

Your project, prior to you cancelling it, managed to gain a grand total of one dollar in pledges on a funding goal of fifty-two thousand and five hundred dollars. This is hardly indicative of an enlightened individual.

digktialx wrote:Sure some of that feedback or critique isn't going to be useful so take what you will from it and apply it to future projects

This is sage advice.

digktialx wrote:I'd recommend NOT engaging people that are very aggressive on forums since it can derail the thread and you have no control whatsoever. It's best to get them to media that you can control - Facebook, Twitter, Etc on YOUR terms. Thats one thing I've learned from working Forums.

Controlling one's messaging is all fine and dandy, but it isn't possible to control the public discussion of one's crowdfunding project. Submitting a project for crowdfunding will subject it to the full panoply of public opinion, both good and bad.

Furthermore, the point is to get people to back your project. You want to get them to your project page - not to some place where you can control the tide of the discussion. If the project page has legs to stand on, then it can often speak for itself. Trying to control discussion about a project, as suggested, is an undertaking which comes with its own sub-set of risks to a crowd funding project.

"But after trying to promote it on Reddit I got a 1000 word essay on everything wrong about it. So I need some advice has anyone gotten any abusive or painful comments about their Kickstarter creation? And, is there someone here who has started a Kickstarter for a Boardgame and how did it go?"

Would just like to say that it's important to take everyone's feedback with a grain of salt. The only way to truly know if something will work or resonate with an audience is to launch a minimum viable product of some kind and measure the behavior of individuals in your target market (not what they say) and how they respond to it.

Regrading "abusive or painful comments" usually people have nothing better to do or want to see others fail for some reason. I don't understand why people wouldn't take the time to give constructive comments. Usually it's because they get a rise out of feeling like an "expert" or writing "intelligent feedback." The best course of action is to ignore their emotional overtone, whether that's reddit or comments you see on youtube videos, and think objectively about their comments and whether or not they apply or bring up good points. They are simply other human beings providing an opinion.

Also - not every product is for everyone. I might think that Justin Bieber's music isn't very good, but it doesn't matter what I think. It only matters if there are enough people out there who do like it to form a small fan-base. If you can hash out a segment of your target market that really loves your product, that's all that matters. Not everyone who loves games or board games has to love it, just a portion.

Finally, if you take a look at most majorly successfully implemented ideas, they seemed extremely dumb. Introducing a search engine when there were already a slew out there? What up google? Launching a new cloud storage business when there were so many there already? Oh, hi DropBox. Doing another social network when MySpace and Friendster already existed....led to Facebook. Thinking that strangers would be willing to stay in other stranger's apartments? Now a 1 billion+ company in the form of AirBnB.

Just making those points because it's not worth letting anyone destroy your confidence. Most people, even sophisticated experts, can't predict human behavior in the long run and what people will love or not love.