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/r/whatsthatbook and title their post "I need to find this book!!!"

I mean, duh?

These posts get removed as soon as the moderator sees them, because there's only two rules in that sub and one of them is give your post a descriptive title. Descriptive means it describes the book, not you - many people seem to think that titles like "This book taught me to like reading!" or "I got this from a favorite aunt!" are descriptive. They are not, and nobody cares.

Honestly, it's enough to just post a genre. Many people seem to understand this but do not know what "genre" means. The following things are not a genre:

"Probably a kid's book or maybe a teen book"
"Written for fifth graders"
"Wattpad"
"Kindle"
"Kindle unlimited!!!"
"I read this a long time ago"
"I read this a SUPER long time ago, like, 2015 or something"
"Fiction"
"Non-fiction" (but then you check the post and the book turns out to be sci-fi)
"Had to read this for school"
"YA" (inevitably used for a young middle grade book)
"Early reader" (also inevitably used for a middle grade book)

I have no idea why people are like this. Why are they like this?