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Originally Posted by Loosheesh
By "users", I meant non-mods, but I'm sure you knew that  |
Well, actually I'd gotten the impression from some of the assorted comments upthread that posters seemed to be considering the mods to be like unto alien entities hailing from some ethereal plane, appointed to watch over us by Alex from on high.
They were kind of speaking as though the mods were so detached from earthly concerns that since they weren't regular Deals-goers like the rest of us mortals that they couldn't understand how terribly inconvenient the new system would be, not being acquainted with how comfortable the old way was.
Which would be a false assumption, if indeed it was being made, since Dr. Drib who's one of the regular Deals mods is also a regular freebie/bargain-getter and frequently thanks the OP who finds the books he's interested in.
Anyway, your sentence just happened to look like the most convenient semi-representative quotable bit which I could hang my own comment off of.
Sorry about that.
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Originally Posted by Loosheesh
I understand and respect where the mods are coming from; I just think this all would've gone down better if they'd just come out and said what WTSharpe said here instead of "We have received a number of complaints about the fact that ...". |
Eh, given human nature I'm not so sure that the reception would have been any better had the mods indeed started out with what would have amounted to a blunt declaration of "We're sick and tired of cleaning up the messes caused when anyone tries to make money off of our not-for-money-making forum. Here are some new ground rules for you to follow if you happen to want to make money off of our not-for-money-making forum. Now shape up or ship out." instead of the semi-diplomatic if rather vague way they tried to announce things*.
Mind you, it certainly would have been more straightforward and left less room for argument (although MR-goers will complain about
anything, from observation) and I'd actually encourage the mods to just put that out there
for the lulz to see how people respond.
But then I tend to be one to reach for the
when people go all
.
* Myself, I'd have just gone and forbidden affiliate links outright and set phasers on BANNINATE for any repeat offenders. And then deleted the Deals forum if people kept complaining, to give them something to
really complain about.
Because when you think about it, this is really a device-usage/format-help/shopping-advice site for the main part and the Deals forum simply a perk for regular visitors.
Page-view #s for the average freebie/deal thread is in the low to mid-hundreds. Random help-with-Calibre requests have roughly the same, and there's enough of those to fill up an entire sub-forum and 8 more sub-sub.