Clean,Non Religious-Reads discussion

GoodReads is all about sharing books, including those that you've written. I have no problem with authors making posts to promote their books, but I would like to set up a few guidelines.

1. If you want to promote your book(s), or those by an author other than yourself....you must be involved in the community. If you join solely to promote any book(s) and do not enter discussions, you are spamming!

As of 12/29/13, if a self-promotion topic is posted, and the author has not participated in any discussion, or has posted only the most cursory of comments[and less than 10 posts, and has read and 'reviewed' less than 50 books], his/her topic will be deleted!

If the author repeatedly posts self-promotion outside of the proper folder the group creator or any future moderator reserves the right to remove members who post spam comments without warning.

It is simply rude to join just to try to sell books and not respect the community's rules by ignoring them OR the community's members by spamming them with book promotion and reviews. This will not be tolerated.

2. All self-promotion topics MUST be posted in the 'Meet Our Authors' folder, regardless if it is your own or some one else's book.ONLY 'AFTER' meeting the requirements. From today on, all self-promotion topics posted outside of the Self-Promotion folder will be deleted.

3. Please create only one topic for each book you are promoting. In other words, if you've already made a post about one particular book, and you'd like to post a review or the like, post that as a reply to your topic. Don't make a new topic.

4. I would ask that authors who do participate in our group discussions don't use large signature blocks promoting their books, on the bottom of each post. It's still advertising.
Clarification: I will allow a single line or bookcover. I'm not going to police everything. But when the signature lines are full paragraphs, often times larger and longer than the thread comment, then it becomes too much.

I hope to enjoy reading about your books and blogs in this newly created folder for you. :]

My thanks to ஐ Briansgirl (Book Sale Queen)ஐ: creator of the Cozy Mysteries Group for allowing me to use her perfectly chosen words to create this folder for the members here at Clean,Non Religious,Reads.

Your books & blogs go here~Meet Our Authors,their books and blogs

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Bravo, Christine! Hit-and-run self-promotion really irks me.

Thanks Tadiana,Yes it was destroying the wonderful forums at Amazon,until they finally put a stop to it,so I do not want to see the same thing happen here at goodreads.

People go to forums to share common interests and to get suggestions for resources for those books,movies ect,of particular genres, not to have someone pushing their product that too often isn't even close to being the genre being discussed!

Even if it IS the same category,it will then already be be included and found when a category search is done,and it ususally just has the opposite result when I see a book being self-promoted.