The mistaken belief that "if you build it, they will come". Responsible for the failure of many Internet startups.
The client didn't understand why no one was visiting his site and I just didn't have the heart to tell him that he had fallen for the Field of Dreams fallacy.
People that have on-line stores they think they should be making millions of dollars without ever spending a dime on advertising or SEO.
Filed Of Dreams Syndrome - Anyone that is mad because no one shops at their crappy little store. Then they blame the web host who has nothing to do with it.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)