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Darcey
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May 05, 2024 07:14PM
Back to the names discussion: is there a list for characters named Hayden?
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I could not find a Hayden list!
I just made a Books With Any Character Named “Hayden” list!
There's a project for anyone who's interested in undertaking it - London.It's a mess. There are a gazillion lists, none of them especially focussed (although "Under London" I rather like), nothing for "set on the Thames"...
The juvenile/kids/YA/children's list rep is especially poor.
Anyway, more of a rant, but there's no segregation, and it's just hard to add to these lists. I don't have sufficient knowledge/confidence to subdivide London or its suburbs in this manner...
London is tough!I don't have enough knowledge about London to be able to tell where it ends and the suburbs begin.
Books Set in London
Children's book featuring London
Looks like these are the two main lists, general, and then specific to kids. Although "featuring" is a little vague. The kids' list has got Harry Potter, but the majority of the book doesn't take place there.
Rainbowheart wrote: "London is tough!I don't have enough knowledge about London to be able to tell where it ends and the suburbs begin.
Books Set in London
Children's book featuring London
Looks like these are t..."
Yeah, it might have been the HP content that was irritating me. >:p Ah well.
Hopefully there's a Listopia Addict with initimate knowledge of "The Big Smoke"!
New list!Crushes in YA and Middle Grade Fiction
Lots of romance lists out there, but I realized there wasn't one for YA and MG books focusing on crushes.
Rainbowheart wrote: "New list!Crushes in YA and Middle Grade Fiction
Lots of romance lists out there, but I realized there wasn't one for YA and MG books focusing on crushes."
Good one - I'll keep an eye out!
I put some overflow at the bottom of the aforementioned crushes list
Darcey wrote: "I put some overflow at the bottom of the aforementioned crushes list"Added
Does anyone know when the "Spam"/"Spammer" lists got axed?I used to add to at least one such list when someone was spamming here on this group, and I've just learned of an author who not only spammed into a reading challenge in another group last year, but who went on to track down two of its members outside of Goodreads and harrass and stalk them there. I really wanted to add that low-life's book to the list, because, of course, he's got an impossibly high rating by reviewers with a suspicious level of inactivity and some towering rating averages (just there to give out perfect scores, you see..!).
ANYWAY, the list I used to add to is gone, and I'm sure there were at least a couple in the similar vein, flagging abusive users and otherwise dodgy books.
And they've vanished now. (I didn't start the lists, so it wasn't a 1 user deleteable situation, either).
(edit: the only list that covers it, now, is the 'Inexplicable Listopia Votes' list. I haven't yet voted on it. I was voting on the main one...)
No idea when it might have happened, but you're right that the Self-Published Spammers list seems to have been deleted.https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
This list used to link to it, but now just leads to a a 404 not found.
Rainbowheart wrote: "No idea when it might have happened, but you're right that the Self-Published Spammers list seems to have been deleted.https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4......"
That's the one!! Thanks, Rainbowheart. :) At least my memory of it survived.
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Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*
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Capn wrote: "Does anyone know when the "Spam"/"Spammer" lists got axed?I used to add to at least one such list when someone was spamming here on this group, and I've just learned of an author who not only spa..."
I noticed it was gone a few months ago. There's one tiny general list for awful self-pub stuff: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
(EDIT: and this one: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)
But I appreciated the specific theme of that past list, calling out egregious promotional activity. If we recreate it, what will happen?
If anyone has time, this list could use more voters!Religious Characters
Capn and I are both at the 100 vote limit.
Rainbowheart wrote: "If anyone has time, this list could use more voters!Religious Characters
Capn and I are both at the 100 vote limit."
As usual. :p Stupid, pointless limit.
I know, and a book just got solved that would be a great addition!
Capn wrote: "Rainbowheart wrote: "London is tough!I don't have enough knowledge about London to be able to tell where it ends and the suburbs begin.
Books Set in London
Children's book featuring London
L..."
London and I are intimate but even if I could create better lists I think they'd have to be closely policed. Are there lists for specific periods?
I did find one for Victorian London. There are lists for other historical periods in England, but not London specifically.
Hello Listopia addicts!I'm writing a quiz for my Writers Circle, and I thought I'd have a table round of matching the named house/building to the book it came from (like Hogwarts -> Harry Potter, Tara -> Gone with the Wind etc). I want a range of books, different ages and genres, and thought there might be a list of them. But I've tried several search terms in Listopia and can't seem to find one. I'm not sure if I'm not searching properly or if such a list desn't exist. Would anyone be able to help?
Valerie wrote: "Hello Listopia addicts!I'm writing a quiz for my Writers Circle, and I thought I'd have a table round of matching the named house/building to the book it came from (like Hogwarts -> Harry Potter,..."
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7... (Historical Fiction, House as a Character or Theme)?
'House' as a tag brings up some useful lists: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag?ut... but I can't think of a specific helpful list off the top of my head... I made a 'school names in the title list' (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...), but I guess a title thing would defeat your challenge.
Books like Brideshead Revisited and Jamaica Inn are sort of useless to you, aren't they?
Rainbowheart wrote: "I did find one for Victorian London. There are lists for other historical periods in England, but not London specifically."
Ah, yes. I see that I voted on it. It really ought to be '19th century London'. There should be a 'Medieval London', a '16th century London' etc as well. I prefer a lot of small lists rather than one big list for a city.
Capn wrote: "Valerie wrote: "Hello Listopia addicts!I'm writing a quiz for my Writers Circle, and I thought I'd have a table round of matching the named house/building to the book it came from (like Hogwarts ..."
Thanks Capn. Somehow I missed your reply. I have looked at the list you linked earlier (I did try the 'house' search but it seemed too general and got hundreds of lists).
Yeah, if the name of the house is in the title of the book it's a bit of a giveaway.
I've got til Friday, and I have about a dozen, I'll make it work.
These lists could use more voters!Rainforests and Jungles of the World
Books About Being Trapped or Stranded
As usual, I maxed out way too quickly. There are just so many "stranded on an island" or "lost in the jungle" books out there.
Rainbowheart wrote: "These lists could use more voters!Rainforests and Jungles of the World
Books About Being Trapped or Stranded
As usual, I maxed out way too quickly. There are just so many "stranded on an island..."
I can take overflow :)
Thanks, Capn! I do have some overflow for both lists. :)
There are about six pages of Thai spam lists on the New Lists page (and a couple in Vietnamese). This is annoying.
It's now up to 36 pages. I think this might be a job for a superlibrarian.
Bargle wrote: "It's now up to 36 pages. I think this might be a job for a superlibrarian."I've reported just 2 of the accounts, but yeah, I don't think this can be managed on the user end of things. :S
Capn wrote: "I've reported just 2 of the accounts, but yeah, I don't think this can be managed on the user end of thin..."I contacted support and I got some boilerplate response: "I've forwarded your concern about this to the relevant team so they can look into this for you. It's worth noting that investigations can take some time, but please rest assured that they do look into each case that is brought to their attention."
Bargle wrote: "It's now up to 36 pages. I think this might be a job for a superlibrarian."Dear God!
I wish you could do a preferred language and listopia titles & descriptions would translate automatically.
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Please don't click on any of the Text and Image Links in those spammy Listopia Lists about online gambling/ casinos/ gaming. (Many of the images are clickable.)
It's spam that might put harmful malware on your computer or device, or steal personal information. This is a serious problem that Goodreads is working on.
The spammers are still all over Listopia. :(
Rainbowheart wrote: "The spammers are still all over Listopia. :("As Sem pointed out, they could just, you know, disable links in Lists...
IS there still a tech dept?! :S
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As Sem pointed out, they could just, you know, disable links in Lists...
IS there still a tech dept?! :S"
Especially Image links; Shortened links (like bitly, cuttly, tinyurl, etc. -- who knows what they're linking to); and "Hidden" text links for external websites (not Goodreads) that use an Anchor tag (so you only see text like "read more"). That's just common sense.
Is there a list for magic/magical bicycles?I could have sworn there was, but nothing is coming up on searches.
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https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Google searched for magical bicycle books, then looked to see which ones had Listopia lists:
site:goodreads.com magical bicycle
Has anyone else noticed that Goodreads has taken away the section for new lists?No wonder my newest list got so few voters. This is really awful. :(
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No wonder my newest list got so few voters. This is really awful. :("
Here's the link for "Listopia: Newly Created Books List" - https://www.goodreads.com/list/new_lists
Oh, that's good to know! Thanks, Kris. I'm glad the link still works.
Wow, they gave the Listopia main page the new book page treatment.
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Lucky me.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Not for me, I wonder if you're a test viewer."I've got a sort of half complete new version lists page. It should look good if the pictures are ever added.
I have now discovered that the pictures only show if VPN is turned off.
Oh no! This happened to me too. :(The main list search doesn't work. It only lets you search by "tags" (allegedly).
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