Policy on Authors adding their own quotes?

[Krystal109]

Now if only the staff would do something about it so we can freakin' edit the quotes page. I can't load crap over there.

[❂ Murder by Death]

pjreads ♫ wrote: ""(iv) taking any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; ..."
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Well, that looks like it's already sorted! Now for GR to do a bit of cleanup... :)


Krystal109 wrote: "...Hell I hate when I watch TV and see the same commercial more than once in a half hour..."

You'd hate it here in AU where we often see the same commercial EVERY commercial break. Thank god for AppleTV...

[Paulfozz]

❂ Jennifer wrote: "You'd hate it here in AU where we often see the same commercial EVERY commercial break. Thank god for AppleTV..."

One reason why I watch mostly BBC here in the UK - no advert breaks. Anything on other channels I try to record and watch later so I can skip the adverts.

It's difficult to be critical of others pimping their books (I removed a critical comment I posted about it on a group just the other day as I felt I was a bit harsh and possibly slightly hypocritical) - I'm not entirely sure I can say with all honesty that I wouldn't do the same if I wrote a book... certainly when I was more active on flickr and other sites I used to insert my own photos into discussions more that I probably needed to! Self-promotion is a subject that would benefit from clearer guidance but not something that's going to be easy to police unless you make very solid guidelines that are clear to follow.

Maybe the admins are happy to just let things run fairly free-form though?

[Riona]

Krystal109 wrote: "At this point I don't think even the author could merge/delete his quotes. This is something that would probably need the staff to do, since you can't even bring up the combine page."

That's why I broached the suggestion of deleting the quotes no users have liked. You wouldn't need to access the combine page to do that, just edit each quote individually, which would take a long time but would probably be a little cathartic! It would also cut his number of quotes in half, at least, so maybe the system could manage loading the combine page then?

[lafon حمزة]

For the record, the combine page for quotes has lots of problems even for authors with fewer quotes. Albert Einstein has 653 quotes and although you can get to the combine page, filtering by "similar" gets you a gateway timeout.

[Riona]

lafon حمزة wrote: "For the record, the combine page for quotes has lots of problems even for authors with fewer quotes. Albert Einstein has 653 quotes and although you can get to the combine page, filtering by "simil..."

Yes, as I've mentioned before I always have trouble filtering by similar when combining quotes where the author has more than a couple hundred. However, this is the only author that times out when trying to access the main combine page, before that step. Kind of a problem, since then you can't even manually search for similar quotes to combine, meaning the amount can't be whittled down except by deleting.

[Krystal109]

If GR's would agree with us that it is excessive they could run a script to delete all his books with 0 likes.

That would be REALLY NICE of them.

[❂ Murder by Death]

Krystal109 wrote: "If GR's would agree with us that it is excessive they could run a script to delete all his books with 0 likes.

That would be REALLY NICE of them."

I'm assuming my "books" you mean 'quotes'? :)

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Goodreads should send him a polite note explaining problem handling that amount of quotes and see what the response/attitude was (a deadline for him to respond). How reasonably he responds = how fast gr should yank the author-generated quotes versus giving him a timeframe to edit.

If anyone but author picks and chooses—starts setting off the censorship alarms that just deleting wholesale doesn't.

Or else gr should just delete 'em and put a quote in their place that says "error xxx Gateway timeout yyy generated quotes exceeded capacity"

[Krystal109]

❂ Jennifer wrote: "Krystal109 wrote: "If GR's would agree with us that it is excessive they could run a script to delete all his books with 0 likes.

That would be REALLY NICE of them."

I'm assuming my "books" you m..."

Lol. Yea.

[Daniel]

Just stumbled across this author so went looking for a page just like this. Are the quotes really from his books? A lot of the titles sound like made-up books. Has anyone seen any of his books in the wild?

[Athena]

Has anybody done anything about this guy yet?? I'm so tired of having to wade through pages and pages of his own self-quoting, unfunny, spammy quotes that add close to nothing to the quote section of Goodreads.

He's up to 12,000 of his own quotes now. Surely that has to be against some kind of policy. It certainly makes me far less likely to visit the GR quote pages, and use other websites instead, which is a shame because it's otherwise a great resource.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

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