Hi,
I am an indie filmmaker in Ohio and am in post production of my first feature film. I have been a loyal follower of Rifftrax and MST 3k since the beginning and am very familiar with the types of films you riff on. For many of us trying to make it in the indie film business I think maybe rifftrax could help out by opening up submissions from indie filmmakers who have a sense of humor. One of the things I get from Rifftrax is advice on what not to do on my films, so the riffs, in my opinion, are very useful in helping filmmakers grow.

Would you be interested in seeing a rough cut of my movie to see if it would be a good fit when it is completed?

Thanks
Chuck

I just spent a long while having to talk to @pants_doe because they decided to take a conversation where I was asking someone else how they had a favorite line in a movie, and then they said they saw it multiple times. That was the basis of the conversation and then @pants_doe responded to tell me to go fuck off if I don't like the movie. No one else thought I was saying I didn't like the movie and when I told him he should stop being defensive and respond in kind with the rest of the community he doubled down and started to whisper me . Here is a copy of the whisper that explains why they are not suited for modding:

Today, 5:17:54 PM
Pants_Doe: I had other replies to you that were basically copies of what other people said
Fultrim: You are a bad mod. period
Fultrim: i asked a simple question and you told me to F off
Fultrim: no one else did
Fultrim: you are just bad at modding and should be removed
Pants_Doe: 16:48 <@pants_doe> @Fultrim a lot of people have seen these movies a dozen times or more 16:49 <@pants_doe> @Fultrim because we enjoy the movies and the chat 16:49 <@pants_doe> @Fultrim that's what this channel is all about 16:50 <@pants_doe> @Fultrim ROTOR is a channel favorite
Fultrim: you created the problem and are now trying to hide being mod privs
Fultrim: where did I attack anyone... where was i defensive
Fultrim: you created the problem
Pants_Doe: 16:47 < fultrim> @CobaltAzurean how the hell do you have a favorite line
Pants_Doe: 16:48 < fultrim> @CobaltAzurean wouldn't that require for you to have watched this movie enough times to find and remember a line?
Pants_Doe: 16:49 < fultrim> @CobaltAzurean that was the doubt. why have you watched this movie multiple times and is it the origional movie line or the rifftrax line?
Pants_Doe: 16:50 < fultrim> I am definitely watching these movies wrong. I have never seen one of these and thought. I am gonna watch that again
Fultrim: those are all normal questions from a person who doesn't experience this entertainment as a reoccuring thing
Fultrim: nothing attacking. just simple inquiry
Pants_Doe: and i thought this was a perfectly normal mod response to someone questioning "why is this fun": 16:51 <@pants_doe> @Fultrim also it's not very polite to question people "why do you like X". if you don't like it, you don't have to watch, follow, or comment
Fultrim: it was not. your response was defensive and rude
Fultrim: doubly so from a mod
Fultrim: your position makes it worse and I did not even know that till after you used your mod privs inapropriately
Pants_Doe: i didn't like the escalation, which is why i timed out your paragraph and took it to whispers. didn't think the paragraph itself was too bad, just didn't want it taking place in chat.
Pants_Doe: ok, see, you don't get anywhere by being insulting
Fultrim: I was responded to someone else. after you came back defensive a 2nd time I ignored you and let it go
Pants_Doe: yup. and i ignored you
Fultrim: when someone tells you your being inapropriate it is not an insult
Pants_Doe: pawsed reignited it
Fultrim: you should have corrected pawsed
Fultrim: right away
Fultrim: deleted that message
Fultrim: not waiting till i responded
Fultrim: that is the correct action
Pants_Doe: Read how the other people responded for a clue on what a normal person sounds like
Pants_Doe: you feel that's not insulting?
Fultrim: yes, you should do that
Fultrim: i stand by what I said to you
Pants_Doe: because i feel that's insulting
Fultrim: you need to re-read it and decide if you misread that situation and responded inapropriately
Fultrim: how you feel about that is not important. you are acting as a mod when in here
Pants_Doe: so that means you get to insult me?
Fultrim: you need to treat that role with more respect in my opinion. you should of re-read what was being said and let it go as you were int he wrong. you were the only person who read it that way
Fultrim: addressing your behavior is not an insult
Pants_Doe: "Read how the other people responded for a clue on what a normal person sounds like" in an insult
Fultrim: you are over thinking it again and still being defensive
Pants_Doe: regardless of any point you were attempting to make
Pants_Doe: all I want is for you to not be insulting when trying to make your points
Fultrim: once again.... takea clue from the normal, non defensive, people and recheck your response
Fultrim: at that moment you were not acting in line with the other, normal, responses
Pants_Doe: can you do that?
Pants_Doe: i was, in fact
Pants_Doe: i copy/pasted the normal responses i gave you
Pants_Doe: as far as i can tell, you're ignoring them, then as well as now
Fultrim: you misread the conversation and responded in apropriately
Fultrim: now your doubly down on it
Fultrim: exactly, you misread the conversation and are still doing it
Fultrim: you read it defensively.... everyone else did not
Pants_Doe: I read it both ways.
Pants_Doe: and gave you both replies
Fultrim: no one else gave the "other" response
Fultrim: why did you feel the need to create an issue where there was none when you saw no one else was taking it that way?
Pants_Doe: My purpose was to ensure chat is having a good time and nobody's getting insulted or belittled. Not everyone reading chat responds to it, and I wanted to make sure nobody felt that liking the content here was strange or unusual despite someone questioning that.
Fultrim: @pants_doe no one had experienced that until you responded
Fultrim: you created the issue
Fultrim: no one else was having that conversation until you responded inapropriately
Pants_Doe: You took it way beyond that with constant escalation.
Pants_Doe: Don't insult people. Don't escalate.
Fultrim: I deescalated it and ignored it. then someone responded to escalate it and you did nothing about that message. and you did nothing about that message
Fultrim: you didn't do anything till i repeated what I just said in this whisper chat and you deleted that message
Fultrim: once again. you created the issue. you then ignored someone escalating it. then doubled down on your defensive reaction and misused your mod provs
Fultrim: privs
Fultrim: not onlyt hat but right now. someone is calling another persona moron.... you are doing nothing about that message
Pants_Doe: I timed you out for 30 seconds because you put a paragraph that took up 1/3 of chat to argue about a topic that you "deescalated"?
Pants_Doe: I timed you out for 30 seconds because you put a paragraph that took up 1/3 of chat to argue about a topic that you "deescalated"?
Fultrim: copy and paste that message back so we can see exactly what I said again
Fultrim: see what it actually says
Fultrim: did you even read it?
Pants_Doe: I already told you that I wouldn't time you out for the content of the message, but rather because it didn't belong in chat, which is why I immediately whispered you.
Fultrim: what is "it" if not the content
Pants_Doe: I feel like you're not reading what I'm saying to you.
Pants_Doe: I tell you something, but you keep questioning it over and over
Pants_Doe: I tell you again and you circle back to another topic
Pants_Doe: just going around in circles
Fultrim: you are tripling down on your mod abuse and defensive message that took a non issue and made it into drama.
Pants_Doe: Look. I just want you to not be insulting. Can you do that?
Fultrim: I want you to stop whispering me and I am forwarding this entire whisper to rifftrax support. I will let them decide if they like your behavior and modding

This $_.99 thing is pretty ridiculous. We are all adults here, we aren't fooled by the missing $0.01. It is kind of insulting that it is assumed we will be duped into buying more riffs if we see a $9 + some change instead of a 10. I buy riffs because I want them, and I buy what I can afford (maybe a little more). All the $_.99 pricing does is irritate me. I respect RiffTrax, and I hope they respect me enough to not mess around with this BS and just charge the real amount in a straightforward and transparent manner.