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Meanies Among Us
I get times are tough. Gas is ridiculous. Food is following suit. Where I live, corn on the cob has been advertised as on sale for 99 cents a cob:
That’s almost $12 a dozen. That's nuts! I’ve never paid over $3 and I won't.
So yeah, times are hard, but there’s a recent trend that troubles me. Writers are demanding reads and proof of comment and even more, they’re demanding tips.
It’s mostly on Vocal right now. But yeah, it’s nasty.
Friends of mine as well as yours truly, have gotten messages from purported authors demanding reads and comments on Facebook.
That’s not how this works.
Facebook writing groups work on the principle of reciprocity. Someone posts a story. People read it, they give feedback and then others post their stories and people do the same. It’s been that way since I joined Vocal in February of 2021 and Medium a few months later.
It’s, as Sheldon Cooper would say, a social convention.
But now it’s not. Apparently.
