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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
ATD, I think you may be taking my post a lot more seriously than I was ?
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And you are surprised by that why?
Hey, if you write a long-ish complaint about something directly to me, I will respond as if you wrote a long-ish complaint about something directly to me.
"
Say what you mean and mean what you say", as Alice in Wonderland puts it. Or just don't say it if you don't really mean it*. It saves time all around, and that's a Good Thing™.
I hope you realize that the Deals forum is really just a huge waste of my time, and not just in the usual browsing-it timesink manner.
I flat-out don't read and am not even vaguely interested in 80% of the categories of stuff that regularly show up as freebies so I'm getting nothing out of all the Christian fiction/self-help/devotionals, business/management/finance guides (different rules for most financial stuff in Canada anyway), [INSERT THING HERE] vs serial killer thrillers, and romance whether erotic or non- (although I suppose I'm sometimes willing to look at historical and zany screwball comedy/mystery ones, so it's not a total loss).
It wastes my time to look for them. It wastes my time to do posts for them. It wastes my time to look for additional stores for them. It probably even wastes my time to even look
at them, considering that I know I'm not going to bother reading them and wouldn't particularly care if I missed out.
And if someone else can save time by seeing [Gay Road Trip First-Time Kidnap Romance] in a thread title and say to themselves "hey, I never bother reading gay road trip first-time kidnap romances, that just doesn't sound like my kind of thing at all" and they don't even have to spend the few minutes out of their lives to click open that thread and ascertain that indeed, gay road trip first-time kidnap romances are not of interest to them at all, then that, too is a Good Thing™.
Because right now, there are 19 threads on the front page alone just for individually-named free books from the semi-major sources and those few minutes x 19 add up if there's mystery meat navigation "hey kids, let's guess what's inside this one!" involved.
* There's a reason why there's a popular icon floating around which captions a
with "<-- this is my passive-aggressive face".