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I added a challenge question to my goodreads profile a while ago after growing tired of authors who added me invited me to follow them just to advertise their books without any other sort of interaction. Different than the author of x type of fiction who also read y type of fiction voraciously and with whom I had a great deal of reading taste in common*. It’s simple. “Why do you think we should be friends? —-OR—- How do we know each other?” and you have to answer it just to send the friends request. I still get the occasional “We should be friends because you’d like my book!!” but it cut down on the number of adverquests significantly.

Recently I got one from someone who has overlapping tastes and wrote a nice note regarding a review** I’d written for a book we have in common. Their answer to the challenge question was, “Because you read the type of books I want to read, not burn!”

And now we have a close second to how to get my eyes to roll right out of my head as the result of a goodreads interaction.

* I did eventually read a couple of her books. They were good!
** I stopped writing reviews on goodreads when amazon bought them out but I haven't deleted anything. Yet?