Sticky Threads and Multiple books in one post

[mineagle]

Unfortunately there will be no more sticky posts.
Each E-Book will have to be separated into one post.
Posting multiple E-Books in one thread is not longer allowed.
Each post may contain no more than one E-Book.

Please separate any posts with multiple books you may have or any sticky threads that contain more than one E-Book per thread.

Thank You

[abottle]

what about series? must they be seperated? or can it be one post/thread per series?

[mineagle]

[sazza247]

[mineagle]

I will get some clarification for you.

[WillWorkForBooks]

I'm not sure if this is an acceptable question, but can someone explain why these changes are necessary? It would help a lot in cooperation and enthusiasm in correcting or redoing current posts if we knew why all the re-work was needed.

Feel free to answer by PM, if you'd prefer not to post the explanation.

Tx

[Solarra]

OK will do but this really is a bad idea:( No offense Mineagle, since you are doing what the admins tell you to do, but its because of the sticky threads that I have been able to find books I never would have found on my own! The search button for this site is really, really temperamental especially since the re-vamp of the site. If this is the way the site is going then please make a better search function.

Also can we just post links to our folders?

[nehmesys]

[sazza247]

If the rule sticks that we have to have 1 post per thread can the rule then be people have to state author and book title. If I see a book title without an author's name, I don't even bother looking at the thread -- I look for authors then titles but if they're new books with just titles, I'm not going to waste time trying to figure out, yes I do like this author or no, can't stand them -- that kind of thing, cos I'm on a limited internet and some idiot just used up over a quarter of my month's quota all last night -- I'm slightly angry so sorry for the sidetrack.

Just a suggestion but I do realise that realistically there will always be 1 who doesn't follow the rules.

And to the moderators, we here realise that you guys are the middlemen so to speak, and so we vent our opinions/frustrations out onto you, even though it seems that your hands are tied at times. I don't know what was wrong with the old system -- I liked the stickies. It made searching so much easier.

Going to meditate now.

[zerisse]

yeah! I agree..wouldn't it be doubly hard and confusing to separate the ebooks? in the events that a series has 20+ books does that mean 20+ entries?

why not just grouping it by genre then? it's easier, by the way...

I like the way the sticky posts were done because I need not search for the books one by one. I just visit the thread then see if there are any new ebooks available then download them...

there are times where I just click on a sticky post then download an ebook even if I haven't heard of the author...some of these are good finds, as well...using the search function wouldn't be fine in this case because you can't really search what you don't know, right?

and another thing, what if you are interested in a certain genre? wouldn't it be better to place it in one sticky post? it would be some tiresome to click on each post one by one to see if you would want to download that ebook....

[abottle]

[amber438]

[WillWorkForBooks]

Thank you Mineagle for taking the time to explain. Am I right in assuming that mirrors SHOULD be posted inside the original thread for each single book then?

And one more .er... sticky ... detail. When the original sticky posts are broken up/ deleted... will the thank yous be retained... or will we lose them all?

[KALS]

I totally agree with cJWade. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeese don't break up the stickys.

[sazza247]

So essentially it's now got to be one post per thread, except if there's mirrors? Well that's gonna make things a bit unhappy around here.

Definitely not user friendly this new system. I like having books that's part of a series, or by one author, in one thread, it makes searching easier. I'm like many ppl who hate having to search individual threads -- it wastes time, especially if you have crappy internet speed. The stickies provide quality stuff and (getting all academic here) as a society we live by classification and cagetorisation - it's essential to humans to divide things up and put them into their little groups. It's the same with books!!!

Man having these stickies was one of the things I loved about Asta. Now if we have to separate out all our posts into new threads, well I'm gonna get a bit annoyed cos I have uploaded files that have like 10+ books in them and I can't afford the time and internet usage to delete these files and post everything inidividually. Imagine the effort that it's gonna take ppl like who have hundred's of posts.

Oh well, the administrators have spoken and they make the rules, so unless they decide to change their minds and listen to the suggestions of the ppl, we are gonna have to go through the hundreds of threads and thousands of posts in the ebook forum and make a lot of new threads. Can the server handle this kind of action?