Schnaucl's comments (member since Sep 17, 2007)

Schnaucl's comments from the Goodreads Feedback group.

Epee wrote: "If there was one thing that I could change about Goodreads it would be all the reviews that are really plot summaries and don't have them flagged as 'spoilers'. I like reviews very much. Its quite..."

I've recently started to include a summary at the beginning just because I read a ton of UF and frankly, if I don't have something about the plot of a given book it tends to blur together. However, I also make sure I put a spoiler warning on anything that's more in-depth than what can be found on the back of the book. I feel bad about it sometimes since there are days I'll send out multiple reviews which I knew will just show up as containing spoilers.

But I had to start adding summaries after I read some of my old reviews responding to events in the books and couldn't remember what actually happened in the book.

I also try and say what I liked or didn't like. I don't think I always succeed, but I do try. The exception is for anthologies with comics (Penny Arcade, Get Fuzzy, etc) then I usually have a line about whether it amused me or not but there's not much else to say.

rivka wrote: "Good luck!"

Thanks!

rivka wrote: "Sometimes it's a corrupted FF profile, rather than an add-on."

That's true. I'm having the problem across multiple computers though. There's another computer I'm going to try installing FF on tonight, I suppose I can do one add-on at a time and see what happens.

rivka wrote: "Yeah, there are directions there. If you have any trouble, I have the link saved somewhere or other from the last time I used it."

It looks like maybe it is an add-on issue. It seems to be behaving appropriately in safe mode. Thanks for the help!

Catherine wrote: "I had to try starting Firefox in safe-mode once to diagnose a problem. I was able to open it without my add-ons temporarily, without having to uninstall them. Here's the link to the Mozilla Knowled..."

That seems to have cured the problem! Guess its' time to start disabling add-ons one by one. Thanks for the help!

Catherine wrote: "I had to try starting Firefox in safe-mode once to diagnose a problem. I was able to open it without my add-ons temporarily, without having to uninstall them. Here's the link to the Mozilla Knowled..."

Thanks Catherine! I'm in safe mode now. I could ignore a book rec, let's see what happens when I reply to this.

On a side note, I've had to accept 10 -15 advertising cookies just to look at 3 different things on the site. I'm afraid to say no in case that's part of my problem.

No, but I'm sure I can find it on Mozilla's site. I'll try that, thanks!

I can't ignore book recommendations either.

An add on conflict is always possible, although I haven't added or updated anything since before the problem began.

I have Adlock Plus 1.1.1
Advertising Cookie Opt-Out 1.1
AVG Safesearch 8.5
Flagfox 3.3.15
IE Tab 1.5.20090525
Undo Closed Tabs Button 3.5.1

3.5.2

I've had the problem(s) on multiple computers.

I'm having a couple of issues with FF in discussion threads. Sometimes when I hit reply it doesn't quote any text of the post I'm replying to and acts like it's a stand alone comment.

I can't edit or delete my comments in FF. If I hit delete it asks if I want to delete the comment. I tell it yes, but nothing happens. If I try to edit a comment I can get the comment in the comment section, but the original comment will remain in place and this edited comment will follow it.

I can take care of editing and deleting if I open goodreads in an IE tab within FF but I'd like to avoid doing that if possible.

In the category of feature or bug, whenever I respond to a comment (again in FF) I'm taken back to my home page when it's been posted. I don't want to go to my home page. Most of the time I have other comments I want to read or respond to in the same thread, or I want to go back to the thread list or group page, not the home page. If I just hit back in my browser then I get my comment posted and a comment box with that same comment already inside. I get the same thing if I hit refresh. This has developed within the last 4-5 days.

Am I the only one?

Thanks in advance.

If it's empty stars and you're unable to rate things, I've also had that resolve. Sometimes it takes a few hours. I generally use FF, but sometimes, opening it in IE (even an IE tab in FF) clears it up.

Yay! Much better! Thank you very much!

Are they empty stars or a blank space?

::Headdesk:: I'm an idiot. Thank you.

Oddly, they were organized by date read even though none of them had such a date.

Thanks for the help!

My to-read books are seriously out of order. Here are the first 10 on 100 per page view:

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 19, 20,

page 2

1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 27.

page 3

18, 34, 50, 66, 82, 98, 114, 130, 148, 162

I have 213 books on my to-read shelf. I believe at one point there was an option to manually number books but I've never done that.

Not a big priority, it's been this way as long as I can remember but thought I'd finally mention it.

Otis wrote: "A better solution is coming in a week or two. Sorry for the pagination!"

That's lovely to hear! Thanks!

Anna wrote: "I got a question. How can I compare my books with someone else's books, when that person has like 100 books read, but only 20 are rated? I mean without going through the shelves or the booklist."

I believe all the books you have in common show up when you click on compare books. If s/he has marked it read but not rated it then you just see blank stars.

Otis wrote: "But I think we can improve this by allow you to easily search & add shelves.

Would it be possible to do that but still show all the possible shelves on the my books or read page. I like to compare the number of books on various shelves and that was much easier to do when I could see them at one time.

Or maybe just create a page where you can go to see all the shelves at once.

I just noticed the same problem.

I also miss the old style.