Sales=Quality

[vlad321]

DeadNotSleeping said:

vlad321 said:

HappySqurriel said:
For the most part I agree that sales are the same as being high quality, but that the areas that high selling products demonstrate their quality may not be what people want to be rewarded ...

McDonalds fails to be high quality when you judge it against the standard of pretentious restaurants, but how many restaurants can deliver comparable quality and consistency of food at a similar price to McDonalds while handling the volume of customers the typical McDonalds can?

When you stop looking down at the world for choosing something you believe is low quality, and start looking for the high quality elements in success, you will start to see people's choices in a different light. If you were so motivated, you could potentially use this knowlege to improve products you believe are more worthy of success.

So you are saying we need more glittery vampires and downright braindead romances in our books/movies?

When it comes to entertainment it's very simple to make something successful, and as I already poitned out you just need to appeal to the lowest common denominator in some way. However that appeal to the lcd is what reduces the quality itself, hence what you are saying just simply can't happen.

Let's see...there's Anne Rice, the Buffy and Angel romance, True Blood...Twilight is hardly an original concept and the demand for it does indicate that more is needed.  Which is why there's now Being Human, The Vampire Diaries...the audience is out there.  Just because you don't have any need for it doesn't mean that the audience doesn't exist.  Boiling it all down to "appealing to the lcd" is just a pretentious way of trying to dehumanize people based on their interests. 

First off, True Blood came out after Twlight. Second, Buffy is NOT like Twilight. I also realize the audience is out there very well, which is exactly what I call the lcd. I also don't see what you mean by dehumanizing people.Maybe you don't quite udnerstand what "least common denominator" means, so let me explain.

You have something that is quality, usually there are people under some intellectual threshold which will not "get it" due to their idiocy and hence not buy it. However if you set the bar low, you will get all those idiots, AND a good chunk of intellectuals. Basically that's more people, for a shittier quality. It's simple really and I don't understand how you are not seeing it.

You used Shakespeare as your example, and I already told you, Shakespeare wasn't the post popular at all, it was jsut popular to the upper and meiddle classes of the time, the ones who could actually watch it. The reason it's popular now is because the people who think it's quality, the intellectual ones, beat it into the idiots' heads it's of good quality.

The best part is, then you start getting into the real world with crap like Marketing, and your idea of sales=quality becomes even more hilarious.

Edit: I really shouldn't say intellect but should say smart since it's not just about intelligence, but also about how much you know, researched, experienced, etc. about a given topic/idea/area/etc.