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The popularity of discussing unreleased books pollutes the usefulness of product discussion threads to a certain degree. For instance, the Bestiary 4 thread is more than 1,000 posts long and no one in the general public has seen it. In a month, all of the useful discussion of what the book actually contains will be hidden 20 pages into the discussion thread.
Perhaps products need two discussion threads 'prerelease' and 'regular', the latter created and the former locked when the book starts shipping to consumers.
What a good idea.
Agreed...an excellent suggestion.
Yep, that would be nice.
I agree +10,000.
I have often thought this was odd.
Then again I'm having a hard time imagining a lot of the "general public" coming on a products discussion thread only after the book is out. I would think most of the people that frequent the thread after the book is out would be the ones that read the thread pre-release. I could be wrong, but the number of people it would be a big problem for would have to be pretty small.
*raises hand*
I avoid product discussion before a book is released because I'm not really interested in all the squeeing and speculation about what might be included. When I want to see if a question about the contents has been answered after the book has been released, I have to page through trying to remember what the release date was so I can read only the part that might have the answer to my question. Most of the time, the presquee takes up many more pages of posts than discussion of the actual product.
Then again I'm having a hard time imagining a lot of the "general public" coming on a products discussion thread only after the book is out. I would think most of the people that frequent the thread after the book is out would be the ones that read the thread pre-release. I could be wrong, but the number of people it would be a big problem for would have to be pretty small.*raises hand*
I avoid product discussion before a book is released because I'm not really interested in all the squeeing and speculation about what might be included. When I want to see if a question about the contents has been answered after the book has been released, I have to page through trying to remember what the release date was so I can read only the part that might have the answer to my question. Most of the time, the presquee takes up many more pages of posts than discussion of the actual product.
Yep. Presquee definitely muddies the water for pages and pages and pages and pages.