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6- Writers who drop promo and leave without engaging with the group are annoying and rude



Writers might think they’re doing nothing wrong, but that’s how many people within these groups feel when a random someone we’ve never heard about barges into the community, drops unsolicited spam and leaves without even bothering to check out what the people are talking about. It feels as if you walk into a random house where a group of friends are having a chat, drop your book on the table, tell them “hey, it’s a great book about space octopus sirens, you have to read it”, turn around and leave.



If you think that’s incredibly rude, this is the same.



Forums and groups are communities of people who know each other and care about each other. Random strangers who come into these communities just to drop their spam are literally using them for their own benefit by giving nothing in exchange. Not checking out conversations, engaging with the people in these communities, is a huge disregard. Basically, what these random strangers are saying is; “You have to care about my book, but I’m not supposed to care about what you’re posting”.



This mindset is also the reason why the old groups, once they became flooded with spam, turned into barren lands. People went into the groups, dropped their self-promotion post, but they never checked out the other self-promotion posts people had posted before them. They didn’t care, but they expect the rest of the community to care. That is incredibly insulting.



It might not be these writers’ intention, but that’s how it turns out.

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