How banning authors improved the content of debate ;-)

[Will]

If the moderation here is so light, why do I seem to spend time in the sin bin, then?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

you're the designated scapegoat Will

[Kath]

Someone has to take one for the team! :-)

[Will]

*Picks up mug, handily labelled: mug*

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

*pours Merlot*

[Jim]

Philip wrote: "Saw a thread a while back in which the bloke who started it asked a simple question about transferring files from PC to Kindle. As I hadn't figured out how to do this then, I had a look. The first few answers were warily sarcastic, then it just descended into vitriolic abuse. I wonder what new Kindle owners make of it all? ..."

I suspect that 90+ percent of them tiptoe quietly away , carefully not making eye contact
I can see why Amazon wanted Goodreads, their own forum, unmoderated (to all intents and purposes, anything moderated by bot is unmoderated) and unloved could even be losing them money

[Chris]

While I hate those horrible shark pit forums I could see why a lot of people got riled. I haven't visited them in years but when I did, practically every post would be something like,

OP - So, what kind of sci-fi do you guys like?

First responder - I love such and such genre, which is great, because I also really love writing it, and by the way, here's my book link - (link).

Got boring very quickly when it went on for pages and pages. I think the MOA forum was only created to keep all the linkers in one place. Some of the vitriol that gets spat out is a little over the top, though. A lot of new authors start out as spammers because they don't know any better, but the good ones will figure it out sooner rather than later.

[Jud]

Gingerlily (The One and Only) wrote: "*pours Merlot*"

Is this the bit where we all get raging drunk and emotionally confess how much we love each other while insisting that it's not the drink talking?

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Its losing them my money. I was so annoyed I stopped looking at the site and stopped buying from Amazon altogether for a while. I still do a comparison and buy elsewhere if the price is similar on principal. I doubt the trolls are big spenders.

[Patti (baconater)]

well how could they be with those bridge payments to meet?

sorry.....

I'll go find an author thread to be silly in, shall I?

[Jim]

quick; the curtains

[R.M.F.]

Philip wrote: "R.M.F wrote: "Patti (Beach Bunny) wrote: "going back to what Jim said about moderation.
Simon and I really don't do much moderating at all. its more housekeeping, moving threads about n such, tryi..."

Some people are easily amused! :)

Myself included - I've got nearly 400 posts on this site. I feel ashamed! :)

[Tim]

R.M.F wrote: "Myself included - I've got nearly 400 posts on this site. I feel ashamed! :) "

Only 400 posts? You *should* feel ashamed - you're not trying, lad!

[Jim]

Tim wrote: "R.M.F wrote: "Myself included - I've got nearly 400 posts on this site. I feel ashamed! :) "

Only 400 posts? You *should* feel ashamed - you're not trying, lad!"

I was thinking that, I think he ought to be on some sort of regime, twenty posts a day, before breakfast

[M.T.]

Actually, the Amazon forum is also set up in a really strange way. Forumites are used to a similar lay out everywhere on the whole and Amazon is it's own thing which means a lot of the stuff any old hand would do/check whatever as a matter of course is really hard to discover.

That's just my twopennorth.

I also think that people who are used to.

"Sticky: Please Read This before posting" and the like at the top of a forum are not going to think "Important announcement from Amazon" means anything.

Cheers

MTM

[A.L.]

Most people don't read those:)

[Jim]

Alexandra wrote: "Most people don't read those:)"

absolutely,life's too short to read the rules :-)
Only if all else fails do you read the manufacturers instructions

[M.T.]

I tend to read a few posts. It's usually very obvious very fast whether or not it's sensible to read the rules. I usually look at the rules to see if there's anything different from usual in there. If I wanted to read the rules on Ammy, I wouldn't know where to look.

[Patti (baconater)]

oh how i wish everyone would read our sticky threads in the group.
would save me hours of time.
that i could better spend lighting curtains and being sarcastic
;-)

[Jim]

I've even fitted self igniting curtains and automated self depreciation to my thread.
That's probably why it's sunk like a stone :-(

[Elaine]

I have pretty much stopped going to Amazon forums now, because of the atmosphere. They really do need moderation. People on the kindle forum seem to invest so much time in bitching/fighting/trolling/backstabbing it is hard to see that they actually manage to find time to read a book.

[A.L.]

Rofl Elaine.

[R.M.F.]

Jim wrote: "Tim wrote: "R.M.F wrote: "Myself included - I've got nearly 400 posts on this site. I feel ashamed! :) "

Only 400 posts? You *should* feel ashamed - you're not trying, lad!"

I was thinking that, ..."

I skip breakfast - that's how tough I am :)

[R.M.F.]

Tim wrote: "R.M.F wrote: "Myself included - I've got nearly 400 posts on this site. I feel ashamed! :) "

Only 400 posts? You *should* feel ashamed - you're not trying, lad!"

I'm ashamed that I've somehow not found a way to escape this site! :) Damn everybody here! :)

[Jim]

R.M.F wrote: "Tim wrote: "R.M.F wrote: "Myself included - I've got nearly 400 posts on this site. I feel ashamed! :) "

Only 400 posts? You *should* feel ashamed - you're not trying, lad!"

I'm ashamed that I've..."

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