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Yes, we're getting ready to attend a modsquerade ball!
Cool! I hope it makes it easier for the 2 of you! I’m told our tastes are 0% the same. Huh.
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I am hard to please.
Cool.We now have a new, collateral game for the forum too, I see: "guess the mod behind the message" 😎
Haha Jemppu, exactly! You'll know fairly certainly that it's me if the mod starts babbling about capybaras :)
LoL I did the compare books too and got 0 the same because there are no ratings for the books read by the mysterious SFFBC. lol Compare Results
SFFBC’s books: 319 (91 not in common)
Books in common: 228 (1.96% of your library and 71.47% of their library)
My books: 11615 (11387 not in common)
Your tastes are 0% similar for the books you both rated.
Which is not going to tell me what books I've read. It just means the books are on both shelves. =)
Soo wrote: "Which is not going to tell me what books I've read. It just means the books are on both shelves."If you use your Read shelf in the comparison, then yes it should tell you how many you've read. Unless you use the Read shelf for some other purpose?!
Ya know, I never do that. Compare the read shelf. I usually just compare the overall profile. *goes to do that*
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Haha no, it's because I keep pestering Allison that I want to edit her posts, but I can't! (By edit, I mean add tons of links.)Having Drampersand show up more is a plus, tho!
Oh, and also it's because I don't want anyone following my personal account, but I post things people might want to be notified of? Like noms, etc. So from now on mod account will do that, so that those who want those notifs can follow and get them!
Ah cool. =)3 Ways to Compare Shelves:
1) Profile Page
2) Click on Shelf (ex Read) and near the top of the screen, Compare Shelf
3) On Compare Page, Upper Left Corner, Choose what shelves to compare.
I actually used #2 but I think using #3 is a more accurate count. I had two different results and #3 was more accurate. You can do either combo of #1 + 3 or #2 + 3 to get results.
Results from #2:
SFFBC’s books: 319 (91 not in common)
Books in common: 228 (1.96% of your library and 71.47% of their library)
My books: 11615 (11387 not in common)
Results from #3:
SFFBC’s books: 319 (183 not in common)
Books in common: 136 (3.15% of your library and 42.63% of their library)
My books: 4322 (4186 not in common)
Woo! I think I was at 121 the last time I posted in How many club books thread. Going by this, I'm up to 136. Yay!
If I wanted to be sure, I'd go count and I'll probably do that when I want to double check. ;)
The links in the original post take you to compare Read shelves, as the link names suggest :)
Anna wrote: "... (By edit, I mean add tons of links.).."I've said it before, but must express my respect for this again: it's what keeps the net connected!
(Quite anal about linking myself, too ^^')
Praise be! Someone appreciates my link monsters! :o Of course it would be the other Finnish night owl :D
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I love the links!
I hate *doing* the links.
"a href=" for life.
Aw, so I'm the type that read the post and then went to look at the profile. LOLI'll be the sacrificial guinea pig. I'm sure someone else will do the same. Hahaha
(I did work for Nokia in my shady past.)edit: Added the word 'work' lol
edit2: This thread is so on topic we could use it as an example in a dictionary
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I'll be the sacrificial guinea pig. I'm sure someone else will do the same. Hahaha"
haha! It is all mods who've come before, and when we pass, so too shall we join the great SFFBC Mods in the ether. Every where the light touches [the bookshelves] is the domain of SFFBC Mod
Allison wrote: "...I hate *doing* the links."I feel you. Yet, personally, I tend to feel a post incomplete unless the links that could be there are there <:D Trying to be efficient and leave a link out will just result in it bugging you until you go on and edit it in... so I've found, and why I rarely battle the urge :P
Anna wrote: "(I did work for Nokia in my shady past.)..."
Ooh. Interesting. I've only ever worked *next* to Nokia (neighboring office buildings). In a newspaper in a
Yes. We are keeping nicely on topic...
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This is why it is good to have teams! I know my limits, and am glad for Anna to swoop in and fix the things I can't be arsed about, but which I recognize others care deeply about and I want them to be happy, while not making myself miserable.
Win-win!
Allison wrote: "...This is why it is good to have teams! I know my limits, and am glad for Anna to swoop in and fix the things I can't be arsed about, but which I recognize others care deeply about and I want them to be happy, while not making myself miserable...."(Must clarify, that the linking thing tends to bug me mainly in my own posts; none no-linking shaming intended *ha*)
Sounds indeed optimal to have differently focused team members to cover all the bases.
This is brilliant. I'll have to think hard about whether it would help us in my group (children's books). If I decide it would, may I steal the concept?Oh, and I am following it.
Oh course Cheryl! I doubt we're the first people to think of this :)
I use the read shelf comparison and....SFFBC’s books: 319 (182 not in common)
Books in common: 137 (9.00% of your library and 42.68% of their library)
if I change my shelf to to-read....
SFFBC’s books: 319 (318 not in common)
Books in common: 1 (2.27% of your library and 0.31% of their library)
So I guess I won't add many books from the read shelf except for potential future picks.
My comparison:- Read (up to current month)
SFFBC’s books: 319 (282 not in common)
Books in common: 37 (1.10% of your library and 11.53% of their library)
My books: 3369 (3332 not in common)
- Read (including upcoming month)
SFFBC’s books: 321 (284 not in common)
Books in common: 37 (1.10% of your library and 11.53% of their library)
My books: 3369 (3332 not in common)
- On your TBR
SFFBC’s books: 321 (103 not in common)
Books in common: 218 (0.66% of your library and 67.91% of their library)
My books: 33088 (32870 not in
I added a link to How many of our Club Books have you read? to the first post. That's probably the better place for everyone to share their stats. My bad for not including it originally!
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I do have a small suggestion, though. When I'm reading a book the group has already read and want to talk about it, I have to STRG+F the title in that thread, because I don't know in which year the group read the book. That's not super invonvenient, but can we get a year tag on the bookshelf for books that have already been read? That way, I can go to the post with the appropriate year right away. It might also be helpful for re-read or buddy read nominations.
Ines, I know, but I couldn't do it in alphabetical order, because that would require constant upkeep. Yearly batches is the only doable way. And like you already figured out, search is the way to go!I'm not sure what you mean about tagging the bookshelf? Adding shelves for each year? They can be arranged by read date, so that should already be covered?
Also the mod account shelves have years, so if that's what you meant, look there! :)
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Great! I wasn't sure if that's what you meant :)
That group discussion thread is brilliant Anna :)
Woot! Way to go Anna, what an excellent resource.*eyes dazzles in organization* So many links...
(Such an abundance of links, however, defeats any attempt at a modsquerade. :P)
Anna wrote: "Did everyone see what SFFBC just posted! :oLinks to all group book discussions 2008-2021"
So. Damn. Satisfying! 👏👏👏 Excellent job, Anna!
I’m on my phone and eyes is located just under resource, and having just woken up I read it as ”what an eyesore” and was like thanks:/I mean sure it’s not exactly pretty but it wasn’t supposed to be pretty :D
edit: Yeah, so many links! <3
Anna wrote: "....I mean sure it’s not exactly pretty but it wasn’t supposed to be pretty :D..."What are you talking about!? It is beautiful 🤩
Just look at the neatness and efficiency! Not a wasted line in whole thread!
Organizegasm.
Oh noes! （>△<;;）Ah no, definitely not an eyesore. ✧ 'Tis beautimous!✧
Hey I don't know where to put this but I want to say Happy New Year for all the SFFBCers out there. May the odds be ever in your favor in 2021.
Oh right, some of you are nearing 2021! I’m still uncomfortably in 2020. Let’s hope 2021 treats us better! :)
Jemppu wrote: "Happy New Year, Silvana 🥂💖"Happy New Year, Jemppu! *toast raised*
Anna wrote: "Oh right, some of you are nearing 2021! I’m still uncomfortably in 2020. Let’s hope 2021 treats us better! :)"
5 hours to go! :)
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You should be seeing these in your feed now:
- New nomination thread goes up (closed, one day before nominations open)
- New polls go up (closed, about a week before polls open)
- Polls open
- New BOTM discussion threads open
- Books that win polls (added to TBR when polls close)
- Books that we're currently reading (added to Read on the 1st of the month)
You could be seeing these in your feed:
- Nomination thread opens
- Reminder to nominate/second
- Reminder to vote in polls
- Rereads voting opens
- Reminder to vote in rereads poll
- Rereads coming up in a week
Something else you'd like to see in your feed?
Please do chime in for or against, as it's the only way we'll know what you (don't) want to see!
Perhaps not quite what you're asking, but is there a way to create polls so that they behave like the rest of the threads in the group as far as notification behavior goes? Right now I have to go in and manually edit the notification setting for each and every new poll if I want to see discussion about the choices. I frequently forget to do that. As far as I know I automatically see notifications for every other thread in this group since I've enabled that for group topics. I'd hoped that would include polls but it doesn't.I usually vote for the last place book in the polls but I'm open to being persuaded to change my vote. Except... I often never know...
This year we're officially incorporating the use of the SFFBC Mod (this) account! This is a shared account for the mods so that we can each edit first posts of important group threads, and pass that information down for other mods in the future.
What it will do:
1. Start Group Business threads (like rules, RATB and TBRC challenges, etc.)
2. Start Nomination threads
3. Start BOTM threads
What it will not do:
1. Vote in polls
2. Respond to messages
What you can do with it:
1. Add it as a friend* to get updates in your feed when:
- Books are added to the group shelf
- BOTM threads are started
- Polls are opened
- Nomination threads are started/opened
- Rereads voting starts
- and more
* PLEASE NOTE: Following will not show all updates. Please allow a couple of days for mods to notice and accept your friend request.
Your feed must be set to Content: Everything. (And possibly also to People: Top friends and people I follow or All friends and people I follow. Try switching this setting if updates don't seem to work.)
2. Use it as a group shelf resource:
- Browse group books on shelves that can be sorted and searched
- Look at some yearly statistics
- For more resources, see Current Events
3. Compare books to see how many and what percentage of group books you have:
- Read (up to current month)
- Read (including upcoming month)
- On your TBR
- Several TBR shelves: Look at the difference between All and Read
Once you know your stats, go to How many of our Club Books have you read? to tell us about them!
Please note: This account is not monitored, so do not message it, etc. Please contact the mods by their personal accounts should you need to speak with a moderator.