"Will you turn me into vampire? / Point me to someone who will?"
No, I won't "turn" you. I won't point you to anyone who will, either. No, it doesn't matter how much you beg, grovel, plead, offer to be my personal slave, send pseudo-victorian speak or whine about how your life sucks and nobody understands you and how being a vampire would make it so much better or any other reason you can come up with. The answer is still NO.
If you send me feedback to ask me this anyway, I will ignore it. :P
"Can you tell me if I'm a vampire / Can I get a second opinion?"
No. I don't care what - or how many - "symptoms" you have or how likely they seem to be, no I won't tell you now matter what you send me in the feedback. If you're smart enough to ask, you're smart enough to have the doctor run some tests to make sure there's no other cause behind your symptoms - you don't need to mention the v-word, just give the doctor a list of symptoms and have him make sure there's no medical cause for them.
If you write to just ask me "is it possible" - the answer is sure, it's possible. It's also possible that something else is the cause. I don't deal with definites, and writing me to get a "maybe" answer is just pointless.
If you send me feedback to ask me this in any way, I will ignore it. :P
"Can you help me meet others vamps in <certain area>?"
If you are looking for fellow vamps in your area, I am the wrong person to
ask! For privacy reasons, I do NOT keep lists of who is where. You will have
better luck if you try Vampire Meetup
or the personals pages or the message
boards instead.
If you ask me anyway, I will simply send you the links to
these pages.
"Can you tell me what your Awakening is like?"
Check the Anecdotes pages if you want to see other people's experiences. Also read the FAQ pages to cover anything else. Everything of my own personal experiences that I want known is already posted in bits and pieces throughout this site.
No further details of my own experiences will be provided via email.
"I'm doing a documentary/article/report/radio show/etc."
If you haven't already, check out the FAQ pages and the Press Room area. If you still have questions, or you still wish me to help with your project, then feel free to come back and send me a message. Please do include *details* of your project if you want me to help - not just a general overview and vague promises of being treated with respect. I am not desperate for a moment or three of fame, and I am quite willing to walk away and have no exposure rather than be treated like a freak.
"Please send me all the information you have..."
Read the site - it's already online. I designed this site to be accessible to anyone with older browsers and anyone with color blindness issues. If you are having crash problems viewing this - or any other site - chances are MUCH more likely you have a virus or other form of malware on your computer - it would serve you better to get rid of that first.
"Email is a pain, do you have <instant messenger type>?"
No. I don't use them because I find IM's to be a pain due to the constant interruptions I would receive. Too many people see IM"s as a substitute for reading the site and the poor webmaster is continuosly interrupted - which means site updates won't get posted, and emails end up taking even LONGER to get a response.
Email Address Typos
Make sure your email address IS VALID. If you misspell your email address, it will bounce.
I will NOT try and track you down or do any kind of web search for you if it bounces, I wil simply assume you didn't
REALLY want a response no matter what your feedback says. So, take the extra
few seconds to be sure it's spelled right if you actually want a reply.
Reposting Articles
If you are going to ask about reposting articles from my site to somewhere else, please tell me WHICH articles you're asking about, and where they'll end up - depending on the article, permission may not be mine to give, but I won't know until you specify the ones you're talking about - and some of you haven't written back to clarify this when I email you to ask.
