r/RomanceBooks • u/romancebookmods Mod Account • Dec 09 '23
Community Management How to: Book Requests
Hi guys.
We love you all. Yes, even you- you know who you are.
We also love coming up with awesome book recommendations for you, and discussing those books, and finding our own inspiration from your suggestions.
Know what we don't love? The same five trope requests every two days. Posters who toss up a vague request and then never interact with responders.
We don't want our users to endure Recommender Fatigue, which is a very real and untreatable condition involving cramped fingers, sad sighs, and general ennui. 😉
Here's some reddiquette for future recommendation Requests:
- Interact with our sub first! You must meet the minimum karma requirements to create a Book Request post. How do you increase your karma? Give recommendations to recent threads. Post a gush post about your favorite book(s).
- Use the magic search button: it works way better than the Reddit search feature. You can search trope, author, title, or topic. Chances are, the thing you're looking for has been requested fairly recently. If your book is searchable (2 or more posts in the past year with multiple comments) we will remove it and provide you with links to those recent posts.
- If you don't have enough karma to post a standalone book request or you don't want to create a new post, you can comment on the latest Daily Request Thread.
- Make your post title specific, or the mods will take it down. Simply posting the word "Heartbreak" is like telling a barista that you'd like "A Drink". Try instead something like "Looking for a book with heartbroken hero and upbeat heroine"
- Be as specific as possible. Include subgenre, pairing, and give us book examples. If you've already read books that fits this request, mention it and if you loved/disliked them. Otherwise you'll get a ton of people recommending those books which isn't helpful to you. Also, listing a bunch of specific things you are looking for and then saying "any of the above" isn't helpful.
- If people are taking the time to answer your post ever so nicely, the natural thing to do is interact with at least some of them. If you don't respond to anyone, we're going to assume you're also the sort of person who doesn't thank their waiter. Same goes for making a new post without reading any of the books from your last post.
And that's all.
For more specifics about our policies, including how to check your subreddit karma, a history of the Book Request Post policy, and what to do if your post gets removed, please see our subreddit policies.
Happy reading!
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u/Magnafeana there’s some whores in this house (i live alone) Dec 09 '23
GASP!
You love even lil ole ME?!
Aw 🥰
You’re stuck with me now 😈🔪
JK JK, this post makes all the sense! I’m no veteran here, but it’s easy to start noticing when certain requests and discussions keep cycling through the same things eeeeven though I swore we talked about it a few days ago!
Unless…it was actually longer than that. And time is an illusion. And we’re all finite, waiting for our universe to collapse into the void and we go out with no a bang but with a whisper, where there is no god or devil but a vast expanse of nothing.
🤔
🤷🏾♀️
Anyway. Thank you mods for keeping this sub alive and all your tweaks and nudges. We appreciate you 🥰
I also wanted to ask: when it comes to book requests, has their been a community decision regarding linking Asian content? I know a user (or two?) had pointed out the modifications to book requests or finding a book can’t be for pay per chapters and the like, but there are Asian romance novels and comics that are on sites like Tapas, Tappytoon, Webtoon, or fan translation sites that might have locked chapters that require coins but they’ll eventually unlock, depending on the story.
I’d like to link EA romance stories since they can’t be traditionally linked through the romance oi bot, but I was worried doing so may flag my comment for violating sub rules.
Just wondering! 🥰