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Originally Posted by anamardoll
WHY? Seriously. Why?
I'm a mobile reader. Literally. I come here every morning for the Freebie forum and the advertising forum. I do not care one tiny little bit if Author Joe Bob participated in the NOOK forum to your satisfaction before posting his book in the promotions forum. You feel differently? Great! Stay out of the forum clearly marked AUTHOR SELF-PROMOTIONS and play in the NOOK forum. Everybody is happy, no silly hoops to jump through. 
Speaking of hoops: have you never been on a board with posting limits before? There is an ungodly amount of "yeah, no, I agree with Queentess there!" spam posts so that people can get their post count up so that they can actually POST.  |
I mean it as a sort of compromise to the people who are bothered by it. If it stays in the self promotion part, I really don't have a problem. That's what it is there for. It does bother me a little that they're not doing much to aid the community, but my only real beef comes in when they spill out into other areas with thinly veiled ad posts. I guess part of me is just seeing both sides of the arguement.
You'll get that hoops or no hoops. I mean, for example, look at Ditchleyportrait. Been a member a little over a month, and 447 posts to his name. How many of his posts are just an emoticon, or "lolz". Now, to be fair he in particular does have many posts as well where he does participate, and I'm not trying to single him out as a bad person, he's just a random example. People often will add what could be construed as fluff comments to a thread, because they merely feel the need to express themselves. Everyone gets that way sometimes.