I'm incredibly disturbed and upset by the intensely aggressive replies to my question. Perhaps I worded it wrong.
Tanya, if you were "incredibly disturbed and upset" by the comments which were made in your previous thread before it was locked, then you need to consider whether writing is the best occupation for you. You'll need tougher skin than that to get anywhere.
I was trying to ask how to market to an audience who don't make buying choices for themselves and how to offer free copies to those readers.
You might have been "trying to ask how to market to [your] audience", but what you actually asked sounded very unsavoury: so unsavoury, in fact, that the mods who saw your post were concerned that you and AW would get in serious legal trouble for your comment. They were right to be concerned by that, and right to close the thread.
If the answer is that I need to target parents that is all that was needed to be said.
No, it isn't all that needed to be said.
We needed to make sure you knew that such suggestions are absolutely unacceptable here, and that they will not be tolerated.
I hope that you are now clearer about what is and isn't allowed.
I was really eager for helpful advice - I've clearly received an answer to my question and I'm grateful for that but I'm really upset by the rudeness.
I've reviewed the thread carefully and see no rudeness in it: just concerned people finding your comments unacceptable in the extreme, and reacting appropriately.
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Tanya, if you have an objection to something that someone says to you here, or to something that a mod does, then you are perfectly entitled to express that objection. But do it via Private Message next time, or use the Report Post button which you've already been directed to. Do not start a new thread to complain about a thread which has been closed: that will get you banned from AW.