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Writer 101 [Public] / Re: Where do I go from here?
« Last post by Jeff Tanyard on March 17, 2025, 12:27:02 PM »I think they're mostly on Facebook.
I wouldn't know. I've never had a Facebook account. But I'll take your word for it.
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I wouldn't know. I've never had a Facebook account. But I'll take your word for it.
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Writer 101 [Public] / Re: The Justice Department cracks down on something I would deem a vanity press
« Last post by TimothyEllis on March 16, 2025, 09:59:27 PM »I get a lot of emails about great publicity opportunities. Interestingly, they're all from different people representing different companies, but most of them say pretty much the same thing, even citing benefits in the same order. I wonder if there are scammer templates somewhere...
More than that.
There are scammers who are selling the handbooks/templates to other people to become scammers.
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Writer 101 [Public] / Re: The Justice Department cracks down on something I would deem a vanity press
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on March 16, 2025, 09:53:04 PM »I get a lot of emails about great publicity opportunities. Interestingly, they're all from different people representing different companies, but most of them say pretty much the same thing, even citing benefits in the same order. I wonder if there are scammer templates somewhere...
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Quill and Feather Pub [Public] / Re: I think I've just gone 'woke'
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on March 16, 2025, 09:47:06 PM »Polarized politics causes us to pick at others in ways we wouldn't under less fraught conditions. I can't say anything more specific without risking a journey too far into poltics.
As business owners (which we all are in a sense, even if we haven't set up an LLC), the goal is to get our work to anyone to whom it might appeal. So we are sensitive to the needs of others, not necessarily for any political reason, but for much simpler business ones. You don't pick a fight unrelated to your business goals with potential customers.
As business owners (which we all are in a sense, even if we haven't set up an LLC), the goal is to get our work to anyone to whom it might appeal. So we are sensitive to the needs of others, not necessarily for any political reason, but for much simpler business ones. You don't pick a fight unrelated to your business goals with potential customers.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: Silly Spammers
« Last post by LilyBLily on March 16, 2025, 10:39:46 AM »I just was reading the latest edition of the AARP Bulletin with its roundup of scam after scam that people STILL fall for. I do understand that people of a certain age tend to isolate themselves from new information, so maybe that's their excuse for thinking that they have to pay some angry government agency in gift cards or bitcoin (!). But there's no excuse for buying into a Ponzi scheme that promises to return 20% interest on your investments. Or for giving $800,000 to some fake love you've never even met.
I know people simply want to believe, but spammers mostly aren't silly at all. Their dupes are.
The AI impersonations of close family members is a tougher one. Verify, verify, verify.
I know people simply want to believe, but spammers mostly aren't silly at all. Their dupes are.
The AI impersonations of close family members is a tougher one. Verify, verify, verify.
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Marketing Loft [Public] / Re: Five magic words to sell more books
« Last post by Lorri Moulton on March 16, 2025, 10:26:41 AM »I actually picked up The Complete Works of Shakespeare
But you won't be able to fully appreciate Shakespeare until you've read the works in the original Klingon.
Since you mentioned it...
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Quill and Feather Pub [Public] / Re: I think I've just gone 'woke'
« Last post by writeway on March 16, 2025, 09:54:11 AM »That's not being woke. That's just being polite.
It's sad that being "woke" which is just respecting others, their experiences, or just diversity in general is such a bad thing. Somehow respecting others has some thinking that it impedes on their rights, which it doesn't. But these days, some consider being polite a weakness so, I don't get it.
I don't think the book description would've been the issue but the post about it is:
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Writer 101 [Public] / Re: Where do I go from here?
« Last post by Post-Crisis D on March 16, 2025, 07:22:08 AM »My hope is that the second group of people will migrate to YouTube and participate in the ongoing flooding of that site with AI videos. There's a ton of that stuff already, so it definitely seems to me to be the currently popular "get rich quick" scheme.
I think they're mostly on Facebook.
On YouTube, if I get tricked by a low-quality video, I click out as soon as I realize it's junk and YouTube's algorithms seems to be able to recognize that I did not like that kind of video and doesn't show me more of the same.
On Facebook, if you get tricked by a low-quality video, it doesn't matter if you click out right away or not. Facebook will present you with ten more of the same. You have to ignore like two dozen before Facebook's algorithm figures out that you don't want to watch those videos.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: Silly Spammers
« Last post by Hopscotch on March 16, 2025, 07:13:29 AM »You "interact with the county sheriff's office with some frequency?" Pardon but I couldn't resist the 
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Writer 101 [Public] / Re: The Justice Department cracks down on something I would deem a vanity press
« Last post by Post-Crisis D on March 16, 2025, 06:01:35 AM »No one has offered to help me sell more books, but I regular receive eMails from people promising to help me get more clients for my blog. 