I'm sorry, I appreciate that moderators are volunteers, but I don't think posters should have to "preempt the need". If moderators are doing a lot of work for free, so are posters, who also are volunteers.
Do you want us to state the publisher for every title we post? Just the questionable ones? What's questionable to me is probably not the same as what is questionable to you.
I think that looking for a prior traditionally published edition, and that checking
SYKM (for the mystery forum) are two quick and easy ways that anyone, moderator or not, can take with only four clicks (one for the prior edition, and three for opening
SYKM, clicking on the right author letter, and clicking on the author).
Then if that is ambiguous, then maybe a better thing to do is to ASK the poster if it is a self-pub, rather than flatly stating that it is a self-pub.
ADD: Just to clarify, I do agree that if it IS truly a self-pub, i.e. not rights-reverted, which I don't consider self-pub, then the poster should so note, and indicate that they have read and liked it.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Thank you for the correction; my apology.
When a book is self-published, it would be helpful if the person posting the deal would note the extenuation, whether having read it or because the rights have reverted or whatever. I did follow through, just not effectively I'm afraid. I clicked on the Amazon link, saw the tell-tale indicators and Googled the publisher. Actually more than minimal effort although obviously misdirected and while I take sufue's point, the amount of vetting a mod can/will do is very much dependent on circumstances; why not preempt the need? It's a two-way street.
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