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Feedback thread for the Monthly S&L Message
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Not that I'm aware of. As someone previously mentioned however you can prevent it from emailing you when you get the message.
I think that setting is for all Goodread's messages though, not on a group by group basis. Check Under your Account's Email settings.
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I got sent to a strange 'page not found', and so I'm not sure if the message was actually sent or what. I don't really want to send it again and spam people. I know when I did it last month it took awhile for me to get mine, but others got it sooner.
I guess if I don't hear back that people got it and/or haven't gotten one myself by the time I get home from work I'll try to send it again from home.
My work internet can be wonky/time out sometimes, so I probably should have just waited to send it after work instead..
For anyone interested, this is what the page I got said:
"Page-Is-Gone, son of Aragorn, grandson of Arathorn
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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I'll try again from home later today.
I got a message just now, so if you haven't resent yet...
It can take a few minutes for a broadcast message to get sent out but not hours. As you're part of the group, you should be getting the message in your inbox too.
Good job on the Sword & Laser Monthly Update Rob, thanks a bunch.
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Thanks for the Local Meetup shout out! People do not know how much fun it is to meetup once a month and geek out over stuff you love.
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Yeah. I really love the one I go to.
As someone who doesn't sign into Goodreads that often, I really appreciate the email and I can see it increasing my participation. I like having the new book choice and important links at the top. Any links to interesting or hot discussions would be appreciated as well!
I like the email too. Great info in a nice tight package. Thanks for putting it together.
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Do you find it useful? Are you reading all of it? Part of it? If so which parts?
Are you an regular poster? A lurker? Something in between?
For any of the people doing the local meetups, has the monthly notification helped get more interest? We've started up a few new groups since the start of the year, and there have been some attempts to start a few others.
Any suggestions on how I can make it better?
Because of the way they are sent, I have no real sense of their value. I may include some questions in the year end survey if I do one again.
Thanks!
Love it, read it every month. I look forward to it.
I like the idea and I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I see a message pop up on goodreads (I don't have messages forwarded to email) but, honestly, I barely scan it. This is likely because this forum is the main thing I use Goodreads for, so I notice new threads in the forum before messages and thus, the messages are mostly redundant for me.Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible given what I just said), the local meet ups section is just those pinned on the forum. I'm not sure if you ever look beyond them - I seldom do myself, so I wouldn't blame you for not reading further. I find that section on the forum a little irritating, as so many are pinned that nothing new from anyone else shows up on the main page - you have to click into it to see if anyone elsewhere posted anything new, which makes it super easy to miss things. For example, I know someone was having a pre world con meet up in London, but I would not have noticed this if he hadn't messaged me about it. Mostly, this is a criticism of too many pins on the forum, but if some of the unpinned meet ups were in the group message, that'd be cool. Maybe they are and I need to read more closely. :P
All that said, I really appreciate the effort and can see how useful the group message must be for others. I like getting it anyway. Keep it up, Rob! You're doing a great job.
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Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth wrote: "I find that section on the forum a little irritating, as so many are pinned that nothing new from anyone else shows up on the main page ."
I have thought the same thing. With so many pinned, anyone trying to start a new topic will end up off the main page and as we all know, if you're not on page 1 you don't exist.
My suggestion would be to unpin all the "Local Group Meetups" topics. Busy Groups will keep their topics on page 1 and new topics will also get viewed.
I will leave that up to Rob (and others) to decide as I don't use that section.
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Hmm. That's a good point. Maybe I'll unpin them all, and create a single pinned thread that links to the threads for regular meetups.
I don't read it but that's because I'm here all the damn time anyway. My opinions is moo.
It's effectively spam in my book, and I treat it as such. As others noted, it doesn't add value to actually regularly/semi-regularly visiting S&L (which I do), so the emails get deleted when I get them and when I get annoyed with having too many "new messages" in Goodreads, they get deleted unread there, too. Maybe the experience is different for people who are unable to check regularly-ish.
Dara wrote: " My opinions is moo."1 point to Dara for coming up with an absolutely great catch phrase. That really belongs on a mug or a T shirt.
John (Nevets) wrote: "Dara wrote: " My opinions is moo."1 point to Dara for coming up with an absolutely great catch phrase. That really belongs on a mug or a T shirt."
Credit where credit is due. Joseph Tribbiani: https://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...
Rob - Think you're going to get a skewed impression here. Those of us who will see this are likely the people on the site a lot and we're precisely NOT the people who will get max value from the announcement email since we see all of this information because.... we're here a lot. Meanwhile the people who rarely come here will likely get value from the email but since they don't come here... they won't see this post and reply.
Bottom line - I think it's a good adjunct to the site esp for people who rarely or never come to the site.
^Seconded. I give the notice a quick glance, but I'm here all the time. The Podcast has many more listeners than chime in here regularly. I am thinking it is useful to precisely the people who wouldn't answer on this thread.Keep it going, Rob!
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Maybe I'll put something in the September letter. Or maybe I'll just wait for the end of the year survey.
I like it, it keeps me from missing things. I am mostly a lurker.
Thanks.