Sonky's comments
(member since Jul 30, 2007)
Sonky's comments from the Goodreads Feedback group.
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Isn't the expression, "meat market?"
I have a GR friend to whom I tried to send a reply to a message. When I clicked the Reply button, I expected to view message fields. Instead, I got the friend's profile page that says someone's profile is private. The page said that so-and-so isn't accepting messages. However, the page also said that so-and-so is my friend.
Can you, Otis, please explain this ambiguity or direct me to a help topic that addresses it?
I'm really not interested in anyone else's input, no matter how good you think your intentions are or how salient and pithy your comment.
Hear, hear!
Otis,
I just got a Friend Request message in my Gmail In box from "Ian" and addressed to "erin" using my gmail address.
Is the system sending messages to Erin using my address, or is Ian busting the system to spam us?
Oh yeah, and obligatory sycophance because you're doing us all such a huge favor making a fortune and getting us to work for the love of working.
Guerilla de Mots
Happy Thanksgiving 2007!
To all my newfound-this-year Goodreads pals.
Enjoy the weekend.
Great idea!
As the author of the Recommend feature, I am grateful to the heart of my bottom for all fixes to said feature.
Also, I think I'm funny; actual results may vary.
Thanks! That's all one can ask from the GR dev team and project management at this point.
I would have said thanks earlier but my daily updates email didn't contain your reply.
When I open GR from an email-link to view a discussion entry, I expect GR to open to the entry. Instead it opens to the topical entry of the discussion and then I have to navigate all the way to the promised entry--sometimes pages away. This is tedious.
Will you please make it so that the email-link simply opens to the entry I want?
(Incidentally, I don't mind if I have to identify myself along the way either.)
Oh, Laura, have you accepted GoodReads' generous offer of employment too? Congratulations all around then.
Any particular reason you are asking? Congratulations to Rivka, GoodReads's newest hire?
*points to dark, wrinkly flesh down at bottom*
I may have discovered a security hole in GR's design.
To be discreet and to protect a site I really enjoy, I won't expound on the possible hole here; but I invite the chief system architect to approach me via my personal email. I have a GR screenshot that backs up my findings.
Nor will I publish my findings if I am contacted promptly. If this were microsoft.com, I'd be famous overnight; and I sure as heck wouldn't protect the information.
Hannah,
These people, while probably well-intentioned, are all wrong. Never ever remove anyone for any reason from your Friends list. In addition, you must never do anything that even might potentially hurt even a online stranger's feelings--that is, until you turn 21. Then you can be as unfeeling and harsh as you like.
You are also required to enjoy your day,
A Concerned Adult
It'd be cool if Goodreads facilitated creating simple polls for members.
For example:
Who is the greatest living writer of English? ___________
I could put it on my profile, on its own tab alongside Home, My Books, Friends, etc., on my groups' pages, and so forth.
Seth, a proactive person like yourself could certainly implement your own feature request list and then tell all of us (including Otis) about it. It could be an ex officio adjunct site.
Same thing happened to me the other day. Do you mind posting the answer here for everyone Otis?
Otis, will you please get these people their IM system? I don't want to try to comb through another spate of badly written drama.
This is a helpful and an intuitive suggestion. I would love to be able to better manage my To-Read Shelf, my Shelf of Shame (or by its correct name, It Oughta Be Ashamed of It Shelf), especially to arrange the books in any order or disorder I want.
This is a great idea! Really gets to the heart of why we love this site.
