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What I Want: Blast From The Past Week
Quickly, apologies in order for the absence of several LT personalities. Everyone seems to have been completely swamped with actual life all at once. These things happen.
Now then, Threadless is asking for people to bounce back what you think about them in their customer satisfaction survey. It’s important for them to stay hip, and boy do that know that. I do wonder if it’s not partly a response to some of the vitriol we’ve seen on the blogs to the latest print choices.
To which, I say Threadless is well overdo for a passed-over print week. 5-8 shirts from more than 2-3 months ago that rocked out hard but didn’t make the cut for whatever reason. My list starts with My Dog, The Lion.
Next up has to be Don’t Take Treasure Maps From Strangers. And you get the idea.
What’s on your list? What amazing shirts got the cruel, cold shoulder? Who should be honored posthumously, so to speak? Let us know.
Tags: blast from the past, cliche, lists, shirts, t shirts, threadless
Bree said,
August 28, 2006 @ 9:45 am
I don’t usually keep tabs on favorite designs since there aren’t many that disappoint me *too* much if they don’t make it. But this one broke my heart for never printing:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/75045/robinoccio
Hazelip said,
August 28, 2006 @ 6:00 pm
What’s really pissing me off lately, is how many high-scoring shirts are not being printed while lower-scoring shirts are sailing through the approval process. Why go to the trouble of building a community, soliciting their feedback for the purposes of selecting which shirts to print, and then completely disregarding said input?
Steve said,
August 29, 2006 @ 8:22 am
I think about the contest the same way I think about the blog.
You might get grumpy about the blog because it lacks some quality or the other you wish it had (I know I have). The thing is, the point of the blog is not to encourage a good community (however you define it); the point of the blog is to encourage a large active community that visits the site regularly. A large active community needs a positive self image, of course, so it’s not like Threadless can be indifferent to what goes on at the blog. But it’s not like they’ve created an online community that they want to “hang out” on, either. It’s all about potential buyer eyeballs on the site.
Just so, the point of the “contest” is not to pick shirts to be printed. The point of the contest is to give a whole other bunch of eyeballs a reason to visit the site regularly. The set of people who actively participate on the blog is very different from the set of people who actively participate on the submission pages. So long as those people continue to happily vote and comment (and visit the site regularly), Threadless has no reason whatsoever to pay attention to the votes (which is a good thing: in my experience, the voters tend to have very bad taste).
I think the trick is to see through the cover stories without being cynical. Threadless is about printing and selling tee shirts. Everything else is a means to that end (however different it might seem).
Rose said,
September 3, 2006 @ 12:07 am
I really loved this dinosaurs on bikes sub. Unfortunately with the new loves contest I doubt it would ever be printed.
Rose said,
September 3, 2006 @ 12:09 am
Rose said,
September 3, 2006 @ 12:11 am
I’ll just do this:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/75210/Dinosaurs_on_Bikes