[AsianInspiration]

i like how this happened right after the don't give authors 1-star thread.

 

[AsianInspiration]

I wonder if Amazon will conveniently count all those tens of millions of page reads generated by those books in the october KU fund (and lowering the $/page), and then refuse to pay the scammers, because, well, they're scammers.

 

[AsianInspiration]

someone really likes donkeys...

 

[AsianInspiration]

I don't know, if they really didn't want to be discovered, I'm sure they had much better ways of doing this, like doubling the number of books and halving the number of reads per book so that none of them get attention like this...

 

[AsianInspiration]

Unfortunately, it doesn't take a superior IQ to build it. Just a little skill that most computer users don't have. A college freshman computer science student could pull this off -- if he had questionable morals.

Common sense doesn't require IQ either.

But what you said is totally not true. As someone who have taken more than a year's worth of computer science in University, I can tell you that I have no idea how to do something like this. Or, well, I can guess/understand how it works, but the actual process of doing something like this requires A LOT of different skills not taught in University, period, whether you're 1st year or 4th year or whatever. Now, someone with some computer science knowledge could probably learn enough to do it by themselves if they really wanted to. But you won't be able to do it just with stuff learned in school.

 

[AsianInspiration]

I think The Clever Man is making a statement about Amazon. The two paragraphs that are repeated (guess I shouldn't copy them here) could be interpreted as such.

Curious, I ended up reading it. This guys' not a bad writer, it's actually kinda interesting Maybe not worth 9.99, but I'd borrow it if I had KU