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1MaureenRoy
http://www.librarything.com/topic/134892
I created the above thread to explain why I'm boycotting Amazon and virtually all E-tailers. When several members of the LibraryThing management team have a chance, please read the thread and respond:
1) If LibraryThing "Pro and Con" is just for politics, where does the above thread belong? Frankly there is a strong political component to that thread anyway, yes?
2) If LibraryThing management agrees that the thread reports on a major online bookseller problem that most of us had not been aware of before, what's your take on the problem? I don't know of any "quick fixes," so most likely this problem is going to be around for a long long time.
I created the above thread to explain why I'm boycotting Amazon and virtually all E-tailers. When several members of the LibraryThing management team have a chance, please read the thread and respond:
1) If LibraryThing "Pro and Con" is just for politics, where does the above thread belong? Frankly there is a strong political component to that thread anyway, yes?
2) If LibraryThing management agrees that the thread reports on a major online bookseller problem that most of us had not been aware of before, what's your take on the problem? I don't know of any "quick fixes," so most likely this problem is going to be around for a long long time.
2lilithcat
Seems to me that yours is a political thread.
I can't recall ever having seen "LibraryThing management" take a political position on these boards. As individuals, yes, but not in their capacity as LT staff.
I can't recall ever having seen "LibraryThing management" take a political position on these boards. As individuals, yes, but not in their capacity as LT staff.
3lorax
I'm not sure what the issue is here. Nobody that I saw is saying your thread is inappropriate or in the wrong place; a few people are disagreeing with you, but by all accounts it's pretty tame disagreement for that forum. (I've always had Pro and Con on ignore, since I'm no fonder of attacks directed at me as a member of a group than I am of attacks directed at me by name, and the former are par for the course there from what I understand). Are you just here to drive traffic to your thread?
(By the way, if you really are boycotting Amazon, you may want to change the note on your profile about saving up to buy a Kindle; one claim makes the other hard to credit.)
(By the way, if you really are boycotting Amazon, you may want to change the note on your profile about saving up to buy a Kindle; one claim makes the other hard to credit.)
4MaureenRoy
Tnank you Lilithcat and Lorax. All good points that you are making, especially about the Kindle, that comment on my page is so 2011! I am deleting it now. Lorax, I got enough Pro/Con replies for now, trafficwise; mainly I wondered if my thread should have gone to a different group. Thank you for the perspective on Pro/Con.
The main reason I am asking for feedback from the LibraryThing management team members is that the library world buys a lot of books from Amazon, and yet Amazon's warehouse network is one of the grossest abusers of its employees. It's the unknowing library world perpetuation of this cycle that worries me, so I am hoping that the LibraryThing mgmt. team will help spread the world about these corporate abuses of their subcontractor employees and "temps."
The main reason I am asking for feedback from the LibraryThing management team members is that the library world buys a lot of books from Amazon, and yet Amazon's warehouse network is one of the grossest abusers of its employees. It's the unknowing library world perpetuation of this cycle that worries me, so I am hoping that the LibraryThing mgmt. team will help spread the world about these corporate abuses of their subcontractor employees and "temps."
