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conulyMany of which violate both the rules and plain common sense by having titles like "What's that book" or "Looking for book".
I am continually baffled by how people who are looking for books can have such appallingly bad literacy skills. I'm not even talking about "they can't spell and none of them have heard of punctuation", which would be bad enough, or the perennial "I read it as a kid" which would be useful if we knew how old you were, buddy. I'm talking about the ones who at least know what spellcheck is but still thought the thing to do was to start their post with five paragraphs about their grandfather, or who think "protagonist name, end of book, setting, antagonist name, genre, opening sentence, color of cover, oh I think she had a boyfriend too" is a rational sequence that is easy to follow.
Obviously these people *can* read, so... I don't get it.
I don't usually tell these people that their posts are confusing, though, because god knows I don't know a way to do it nicely.
Anyway, if you have some time to kill, and a reddit account, you can always give yourself imaginary internet points for the solves. That's what I do! I'm up to seventy bajillion and three. The trick is to know what books have been asked for before, because odds are they're being asked for again.
I am continually baffled by how people who are looking for books can have such appallingly bad literacy skills. I'm not even talking about "they can't spell and none of them have heard of punctuation", which would be bad enough, or the perennial "I read it as a kid" which would be useful if we knew how old you were, buddy. I'm talking about the ones who at least know what spellcheck is but still thought the thing to do was to start their post with five paragraphs about their grandfather, or who think "protagonist name, end of book, setting, antagonist name, genre, opening sentence, color of cover, oh I think she had a boyfriend too" is a rational sequence that is easy to follow.
Obviously these people *can* read, so... I don't get it.
I don't usually tell these people that their posts are confusing, though, because god knows I don't know a way to do it nicely.
Anyway, if you have some time to kill, and a reddit account, you can always give yourself imaginary internet points for the solves. That's what I do! I'm up to seventy bajillion and three. The trick is to know what books have been asked for before, because odds are they're being asked for again.
