i think you guys should make a recommendation channel where people can ask for specific book types, and people respond with book recs!!
#recommendation channel
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velvet tulip
We used to have one, but I think it wasn’t used much. Now we just give/ask for recs in book talk or the genre channel
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What are the pros to having a separate channel for this outside of using #book-talk ? /gen
velvet tulip
I mean I guess to have them all in one place
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Is that it 
velvet tulip
Idk it wasn’t my suggestion lol. I’m just trying to further the discussion. I agreed with getting rid of it, I like the genre channels better cause it’s more organized than just having all different kinds of books in one channel
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What are the pros to having a separate channel for this outside of using <#86778...
people can scroll through it to find books that match their taste, people can answer questions easily, gives readers a way to find books similar to what theyve read way easier, and for new comers who might be nervous to ask for book recs since they dont know which channel to ask in
you could name it book-recs
readers can give a short sentence or two on why u should read it
if its not someone asking for a specific book
vernal wigeon
I like the saved history by genre, maybe a better way to do this would be to have the book-red be a thread in each genre that already has a channel?
velvet tulip
That’s kind of what we do now, if someone shares a good list of recs, it gets pinned, but not single recommendations
vernal wigeon
oh ok, I was envisioning more of a buddy read format, where you can post for two reasons: 1 only ask for recs within the genre that follow certain themes/ideas and 2 a title/author for the recommendation, so that there will be a list ready for anyone who comes looking for book recs
I totally get it if the pinned messages do basically that, or if moderating a whole slew of new chats would be unrealistic, I am just looking for a way to reconcile this suggestion with what the server has already
velvet tulip
Oh so not like, “I just read this book and it’s really good, here’s why I recommend it”? That’s more the format of the old channel we used to have, and a little bit people asking for recs
merry lark
oh ok, I was envisioning more of a buddy read format, where you can post for two...
i mean that would be nice to have a list ready, then we won't have to keep asking in separate channels. so every recommendation can be listed basically?
merry lark
people can scroll through it to find books that match their taste, people can an...
oh that sounds good. we can just post books we would recommend, and a little bit about them. so anyone new to the server goes directly to that channel and finds some recommendations that they like from the ones we have posted already
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oh that sounds good. we can just post books we would recommend, and a little bit...
yeah!!
merry lark
so . . . do we do a vote or something?
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im not very sure
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No LOL
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Ultimately it is up to the staff team to decide if and how to make suggestions work, but I'm already ok with doing it so it'll be added within the next week
merry lark
i was close enough with the voting
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We can vote then?
drowsy lionBOT
spicycheesecake asks: Create a separate channel for book recommendations (i.e. Bring back #staff-faves-💖 )
1⃣: Yes
2⃣: No
indigo schooner
The benefit I see is that the requests for recommendations wouldn’t get buried in other discussions in the various channels. It would be a dedicated spot for ppl to ask, and more ppl might see it and respond
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right, and the server may become more active if there is a whole channel of book recs
velvet tulip
Yeah this server has been so dead lately /s
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honestly
velvet tulip
You really think so? I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be flippant
Back when we had it the server was def not slow and it averaged 1 post a month
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spicycheesecake asks: Create a separate channel for book recommendations (i.e. B...
The people have spoken
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After having asked for many recs with no response i am certain we need a rec channel 😭
velvet tulip
Where are you asking?
I know personally, I see people ask for recs and I just don’t have any. Sometimes it be like that, unfortunately. I wish I had great recs for every request
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It's likely that you're getting this outcome because you almost exclusively ask in #book-talk , one of our most active chats, and not in the genre channels 😬
wise jungle
On a super real level, if you’re looking for book recommendations, you should try acutely specific inquiries with AI. You can ask for books that resemble book X and book Y with Z undertones etc by ABC kind of author that deal with DEF topics. It’s pretty handy. That or sign up for something like StoryGraph and use the suggestion option for similar books and/or fill out the recommendation page and read the recommended books generated.
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On a super real level, if you’re looking for book recommendations, you should tr...
OLY MOLY
There was a time in my life where I was so involved with SG that I always looked through it's recs
And then I ended up with a maSSIVE TBR because I kept looking and
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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 it was obsessive
merry lark
technology is obsessive 
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It's likely that you're getting this outcome because you almost exclusively ask ...
oh yeah true 😭
spiral wren
Here's my suggestion which no one will see probably... ever.... "Bring back the comedy and humor channel! (much needed for these times?)"
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It's still there lol