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re: International mooches now 3 points I'm a little confused by the blog post here. It reads as "I agreed to wait, then do exactly what I was going to do in the first place." I'm sure, John, that you spent some time during those three months thinking about other ways to resolve the inflation problem. Surely you didn't just leave the discussion at the point it was three months ago. Already in these comments we see two people pulling their inventories -- and people pulling inventories is pretty much never good for BookMooch. Would you be willing to share any of the thinking you did? Three months of brainstorming and listening to the community about alternate suggestions seems like it could come up with a lot of ideas. None of them solved the inflation problem without alienating international moochers? BLW 2 hace años

re: A dangerous idea This could actually be quite interesting. I have two concerns: 1. If the community voice is against it, I don't care how much it might help. Angering the community results in apathetic or just plain lost members, and that's no good for BookMooch at all. 2. I'm not interested in participating in any programs that keep any part of the ownership of a book once I've mooched it. If a book is bought as a Premium Book, fine. But if I mooch it as a Premium Member, it is now my book. That should mean I'm free to keep it forever, rip it up for art projects, or re-list it as a normal book. I repeat: I'm not interested in anything that asserts ownership over a book I've paid for with points -- and so I'm especially uninterested in a program that asserts ownership over books I will have paid for with some actual money. BLW 2 hace años

re: Wishlist griping I wonder if BookMooch would be a little more active if it were actually up more often -- it seems like there's at least one day a week these days that my members pages just never load. BLW 2 hace años

re: Followup to points discussion Re: encouraging to re-list wishlisted books I know plenty of people do use Bookmooch as a sort of for-pay worldwide interlibrary loan program. For them, re-listing books is a way of life. It keeps the bookshelves clean and keeps books in circulation. Bravo to them! But that's a choice, and not a requirement. Me, I use BookMooch to mooch books. To keep. I send a book (that I own but don't want) away, and then it belongs to someone else. They might read it, re-list it, or tear it up for an art project -- that's their right. When I receive a book, it's mine, and I expect the same rights. (This is why I get a bit annoyed by those BookCrossing books in the system -- the sender often seems to think they retain some degree of ownership over what is now my book.) BookMooch, in my head, is not a loan facilitator. It is a trade facilitator. There is a difference. It has no business telling me what to do with the books I've received. BLW 2 hace años

re: Followup 2: intl mooch ratio change John, please please address the retroactive nature of the change. You are undoubtedly a smart guy, you've unquestionably read all this feedback; you must realize that it's one of the things that is upsetting people the most about this change. Even those who agree this might be fair going forward are upset about the retroactive change. It's two very simple questions. Why was the change retroactive? If the change is sticking, despite the uproar, is there any chance that the retroactive portion of it will be reversed? It's a huge part of this reaction and I don't understand why you've failed to address it twice now. BLW 2 hace años

re: Followup : intl mooch ratio change John, you haven't addressed the retroactive nature of this change. I assume it is simply easier, technically, to make the change retroactively -- but I think people would appreciate knowing this. And even more, they would appreciate you taking the time to do the more-technically-difficult thing, and fix it so this change is not applied retroactively. Whether or not this new method is fair, or right, or good, you must acknowledge that people acting as they did under the old method were doing nothing wrong at the time. Their previous actions should not be retroactively punished, and they are understandably very upset about this. BLW 2 hace años

re: BookMooch mobile? I've been unsure about some of the recent ideas (most notably, the prices feature, which locks BM even closely to Amazon). But this is awesome. I would welcome and use a mobile app. BLW 2 hace años