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Good day all.
I know Mr Cleansheets is a published author.
Do we have any others who are avid readers, mainly fiction?
I've been on a Which Book Are You reading thread for years on another forum. All participants are highly literate, mainly female, and there has been no trolling, and virtually no animosity.
However:
1. Published authors can't promote their books, or disclose their identity to promote them. As a point of difference on G and G we could have an authors ' thread. Most of us love reading and are far too lazy to write books. We love authors who write!
2. The main tension has to be spoilers. That is disclosing how a book concludes to people who haven't read it. Recently a Mod deleted a lot of comments, where two posters, who most of us disagreed with, claimed by posting info about a late Ian Rankin book (publicly advertised in bookshops and online) , that it was a spoiler.
By discussing this in the thread, I was banned for a week! Not because of what I said, but because of where it was discussed in the thread - the norm in every other setting. We also wanted to appoint our own Mods - not someone uninvolved who had just made a poor decision adjudicating.
If we have a number here already interested, I don't need to recruit as many to make it viable.
I know Mr Cleansheets is a published author.
Do we have any others who are avid readers, mainly fiction?
I've been on a Which Book Are You reading thread for years on another forum. All participants are highly literate, mainly female, and there has been no trolling, and virtually no animosity.
However:
1. Published authors can't promote their books, or disclose their identity to promote them. As a point of difference on G and G we could have an authors ' thread. Most of us love reading and are far too lazy to write books. We love authors who write!
2. The main tension has to be spoilers. That is disclosing how a book concludes to people who haven't read it. Recently a Mod deleted a lot of comments, where two posters, who most of us disagreed with, claimed by posting info about a late Ian Rankin book (publicly advertised in bookshops and online) , that it was a spoiler.
By discussing this in the thread, I was banned for a week! Not because of what I said, but because of where it was discussed in the thread - the norm in every other setting. We also wanted to appoint our own Mods - not someone uninvolved who had just made a poor decision adjudicating.
If we have a number here already interested, I don't need to recruit as many to make it viable.
