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i am far from a prude as several ex-wives will tell you and i had issues with the conservatory, the general topics were the normal cannon fodder of many sites on the net, far removed from e-books and that is fine, the discussions were not mobileread like discussions, they were, at times, nasty and polarizing, as a debating society it had a lot to learn, if it had been my first look at mobileread i never would have joined
people were ignored, insulted, their motives questioned, their morals atacked, and all this in the name of open honest discussion, some of the jokes, when allowed, were tasteless and those that did not like them were hounded, good arguments were ignored in favor of louder screams by brain dead nit-wits that thought their recent post would change the world to their own narrow view of it
i voiced my upset through a public post in the conservatory that did not make the transisition to the lounge as it is no longer viable, Alex and Zelda both sent me letters about it, each of us votes every day where to spend our on-line time, the conservatory made it harder and harder to vote for mobileread, the pit viper mentality of the place was spilling over into other sections of the site, some earlier poster suggested that it was the new bunch of euro posters with their anti-us views that were the cause, they might just as well have named peru, canada or california
i applaud Alex for his stance, the marketing people would say it didn't fit into the mobileread marketing mix, it should be cast off, i am glad to see it go
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