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Thanks to pdurrent we now find ourself in fully postfactual discussion, where people are encouraged to discuss formats that never mattered, never had any traction, never suceeded, and never were relevant at all - just because it gives our two Christmas elves (love your green writing...) an "out" - for not having to call .kfx by its name.

Or featureset.

If we don't like to do that - we can kindle our emotions around the other sidetopic of people in here being forced to retract statements after the fact - because they are debatable, or wrong - just in a dead cynical game of "I have power over you" - also preventing the argument from getting anywhere - in fact, they are hindering it from taking place at all.

In a world where we have to edit and reedit our statements, because we value someones feelings of having been misinterpreted so much, much more - than the actual argument made, with or without their consent - but still using their findings.

To escalate this one further - I see this as an example of structural abuse.

The agenda of the topic is set aside to be replaced with a strange call for "personal political correctness" no one does benefit from. (I don't consider "being able to retract yourself and safe face" to be a benefit in the structural sense, it doesn't solve, underline, explain, focus the issue - its just further loss of positions, options, traction - it creates more unneccesary confusion...)

The issue that .kfx has some really strange and unwanted properties should now be replaced with an artificial focus on topaz which was a format that was intended to be a pdf replacement and never worked. Never succeeded. Never had any significant distribution.

.kfx (.kf10) is set up to be the replacement format of azw3 (.kf8).

Trying to sidetrack the discussion, with the added bonus of structural abuse of power
(try not writing everything in green and lets see how much sense the things you demand actually make - in a world where not everyone has to see every word you say as being a "Machtwort" (a "word of law" in the institutional sense)), is usually something you come to expect from paid trolls and not of forum moderators.

I know that this is something different than the usual 10 "I didn't read the manual, can you help me" posts you have to deal with day in and day out in here -- but a

- lets stick by the manual, and oh - page 10 says, we should also mention topaz as something with different problems - position, doesn't get us very far here.

In fact -

while still insisting, that none of this has to be looked at from a macro level ("there are other industry players, so we all can look the other way...:") you are now doubling down on looking at the ultra micro level -

- "I only ever said it was structurally more unfit, than one specific other format - and I'm unwilling for my statement to be used in a broader context"

and the outright joke of an

- .kfx doesnt look so bad (oh no, it does - but we are hard at mixing metaphers to find any reason for not looking at the stuff that .kfx has caused compared to the previous "format generation") - compaired to a format, thats the pdf equivalent from Amazon.

You are now demanding, that we have a discussion in here why pdf is worse than epub?

While people are loosing all file properties they had for the better part of the digital revolution, with .kfx?

And you do this with the "voice of a moderator", and in a bold font?

Where is the complaint box in this forum - I'm on the receiving end of a mighty creative attempt to kill this conversation.

Oh, and thanks for doubling down on "you also need to *selfcensor* another posting, because I say so" - shows just how used you are to being in a position of power. Ok, children - playtime is over -

Lets talk about the structural changes .kfx brought to the Amazon ecosystem in 2016 - once more. The year is almost over - and large parts of this community still insist, that its just "a different flavor of nice".

It has taken all properties of a usual file format for distribution from us (.mp3, mp4, ... even .doc (was at least reversed) had them ...) but this community refuses to acknowledge its role of having allowed this to take place largely unnoticed.

Don't bother talking about defunct file formats that never played a role - the place in here is too precious.

Oh, and in the spirit of the holidays - answer a few more "can someone read the manual to me" questions while you are at it. For the benefit of the community.