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anamardoll · 07-28-2011, 01:15 PM

@Neil

Well, and obviously it's entirely possible that I've misunderstood your public persona.

But that's kind of my POINT. There's a lot of comments in this thread that seek to assign motives, ownership (or lack thereof), personalities, intentions, attitudes, and favored-cat-breed to people on Mobile Reads based on information that is really VERY sparse at best.

You can't know if a newbie author has an eReader or not based on some aspect of their profile. You don't know how much they've participated on the board under, say, another name that they keep separate from their author pen name. You don't know how much they do/don't value eReaders (both the devices and the people) or how much time they've sunk into formatting.

Inasmuch as I KNOW I don't know everything about YOU, there are still people in this thread that seem to think they can tell quite a bit about OTHER posters. And I don't myself like that much.

So the next time you draft a thread to rant about stuff you don't like with regards to certain posters, you might want to take a step back from the internet and calm down a bit. Because in as much as you probably wouldn't see much of yourself in a post I could write about YOU, I suspect the newbies you're so shocked haven't shown up here don't see much of themselves in YOUR portrayal of THEM, either.

All the best.

07-28-2011, 01:15 PM	#126
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	@Neil Well, and obviously it's entirely possible that I've misunderstood your public persona. But that's kind of my POINT. There's a lot of comments in this thread that seek to assign motives, ownership (or lack thereof), personalities, intentions, attitudes, and favored-cat-breed to people on Mobile Reads based on information that is really VERY sparse at best. You can't know if a newbie author has an eReader or not based on some aspect of their profile. You don't know how much they've participated on the board under, say, another name that they keep separate from their author pen name. You don't know how much they do/don't value eReaders (both the devices and the people) or how much time they've sunk into formatting. Inasmuch as I KNOW I don't know everything about YOU, there are still people in this thread that seem to think they can tell quite a bit about OTHER posters. And I don't myself like that much. So the next time you draft a thread to rant about stuff you don't like with regards to certain posters, you might want to take a step back from the internet and calm down a bit. Because in as much as you probably wouldn't see much of yourself in a post I could write about YOU, I suspect the newbies you're so shocked haven't shown up here don't see much of themselves in YOUR portrayal of THEM, either. All the best.