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[°~Amy~°]

Looks like it's going to be a week of mostly repeat suggestions

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

°~Amy~° wrote: "Looks like it's going to be a week of mostly repeat suggestions"

That makes sense at this point. Some of them were rather popular but were competing with more popular options that week.

[NancyJ]

I have a shelf with 45 books called "cover-w-handwriting.

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

GR will only show the first 6 publicly. I'll find another way to display it later. Maybe I can create a listopia.

[NancyJ]

I'm considering resubmitting a sub-genre prompt but I don't know if it will have support.

[Kathy]

I’d vote for it, NancyJ.

[Shannon]

NancyJ wrote: "I'm considering resubmitting a sub-genre prompt but I don't know if it will have support."

I would be open to voting for this (now that I understand what some of the sub-genres mean), but the listopia would have to be pretty good. Or maybe if the suggestion included a list of possible sub-genres to make researching book options a bit easier.

[NancyJ]

Shannon wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "I'm considering resubmitting a sub-genre prompt but I don't know if it will have support."

I would be open to voting for this (now that I understand what some of the sub-genres mean..."

There were several lists and links when I first posted it. I could not do a listopia for all of them.

[NancyJ]

I already submitted something else today. This is the prompt if anyone else wants to submit it.

Read a book from a sub-genre, such as up-lit, steam-punk, cyber-punk, glitz, climate-fiction, micro-history, slip-stream, hopepunk, grimdark, nanopunk, etc.

Other examples include: AI, first contact, solar punk, Lovecraftian, fairy tale retellings, space colony, bio-thriller, dystopian, supernatural detective, military romance, second-chance romance, medical thriller, literary fantasy, utopian. biopunk, silk-punk.

I'm getting my house ready for guests right now, but perhaps we can find links to specific examples later on.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I do want to clarify that we would remove all the examples from the final list prompt, so if it makes it through, the prompt would just say "a book from a sub-genre". I feel like every book fits into some random sub-genre so I worry people would feel it's too broad, even with examples listed.

I would be more inclined to vote for it if you were specific about the subgenre, like "A book from a sub-genre of sci-fi" (since most of those listed are sci-fi-ish)

[Pearl]

Nancy do you want to workshop it for next time?

[Shannon]

NancyJ wrote: "There were several lists and links when I first posted it. I could not do a listopia for all of them."

Yeah - I don't remember what the original suggestion said, but this is a good list of sub-genres. Unfortunately, I already suggested one for this round, so can't suggest it or second it. I would support it though.

[NancyJ]

Thanks. Let's work on it for next week.

[Jillian]

I think, work shopping it sounds like a good idea. I like the sub-genre idea but I think that the prompt needs to be written so it is limited to x amount of sub-genre prompts so they will be included in the final list.

[NancyJ]

Shannon and everyone else:

I created my first listopia - for A Book Cover with Handwriting. Please add to it if you can.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...#

[Duygu]

Hopefully I won't miss this weeks prompt suggestion!

"a book with an arthropod on the cover"

The phylum Arthropoda is commonly divided into four subphyla of extant forms: Chelicerata (arachnids), Crustacea (crustaceans), Hexapoda (insects and springtails), and Myriapoda (millipedes and centipedes).


https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://bookauthority.org/books/best-...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

Here's a list I haphazardly put together: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Duygu]

NancyJ wrote: "Shannon and everyone else:

I created my first listopia - for A Book Cover with Handwriting. Please add to it if you can.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...#"

I added close to 30. I had so many on my bookshelf!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Just a reminder that we only have 10 prompts left to vote onto the list, and this week's poll is looking like it will have multiple winners. My guess is only 2-3 more polls after this one is finished!

[Thomas]

Emily wrote: "Just a reminder that we only have 10 prompts left to vote onto the list, and this week's poll is looking like it will have multiple winners. My guess is only 2-3 more polls after this one is finished!"

When is the second comeptiton where an indvidual picks?

[Jillian]

Thomas, it was last week as part of the read-a-thon.

[°~Amy~°]

Thomas wrote: "Emily wrote: "Just a reminder that we only have 10 prompts left to vote onto the list, and this week's poll is looking like it will have multiple winners. My guess is only 2-3 more polls after this..."

That was this last week during the readathon. One of the people who participated in the Individual part of the challenge (and accumulated 1000 points or more) will get chosen randomly to pick a prompt :)

[Ellie]

If the suggestions open up the usual time, I'm happy to suggest on behalf of someone who keeps missing it.

[Duygu]

Ellie, what time do they open up? I am based in the UK so wondering if that is why I keep missing it.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

We try to vary the times, but we are all located in the same time zone so it does get a bit difficult... next round of suggestions will likely be in the evening CST.

[Duygu]

Emily wrote: "We try to vary the times, but we are all located in the same time zone so it does get a bit difficult... next round of suggestions will likely be in the evening CST."

Hence why I miss it, I am sound asleep :D

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

We have had them in the mornings (CST) and early afternoon as well, but none of us are able to open them at 1 am our time lol. But feel free to post it in here and someone that's around can suggest for you!

[Nancy]

The current round's suggestions opened at 8am CST, I think.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Yes, that is correct. We try to vary the times and we're thinking of a later afternoon/evening time in US Eastern/Central for the next one. But we realize that could be hard for our European members.

[Kendra]

Are we going to have a close call poll like we did last year?

[Ellie]

Duy wrote: "Ellie, what time do they open up? I am based in the UK so wondering if that is why I keep missing it."

I'm in the UK too, they have been going up early afternoon for me, and I can easily keep an eye open for it while working. However if it's being posted later this week, I won't be able to help anyone out.

[[deleted user]]

GR have now disabled external links completely in new posts not just the html link. They have also disabled the ability to edit a post that has an external link in it. Any external links previously posted do still work.

So, we can’t do new polls on external sites, post external articles/book lists, etc re suggestions for task, post new google spreadsheets, etc.

So far I can’t find any announcement from GR about this new development or how long it will last or even if it is temporary.

[Ellie]

Well that's frustrating. I'd suggest the mods get a linktree page and then at least it is a short URL to type in.

eg my linktree is: linktr .ee/patchworkbunny

[Nadine in NY]

Lori wrote: "GR have now disabled external links completely in new posts not just the html link. They have also disabled the ability to edit a post that has an external link in it. Any external links previously..."



That really stinks. GR seems to be falling apart lately!! I assume we can still paste in links, with spaces, like Ellie did, and then the rest of us can copy/paste/edit it to get to the surveys?

[Ellie]

I hope enough people kick up a fuss that they'll reinstate the full URLs option. They could ban new users from being allowed to post them, as most spammers create new accounts just to spam.

[Nadine in NY]

Ellie wrote: "I hope enough people kick up a fuss that they'll reinstate the full URLs option. They could ban new users from being allowed to post them, as most spammers create new accounts just to spam."



I just posted in Help, too, asking the question. This is really annoying. they've had a known spam problem for years now, but this is NOT the way to fix it. The links aren't the problem. The spam is the problem.

[Ellie]

Oh I despair. I tried linking to someone raising this in the goodreads help area but they have only gone and blocked their own URL.

[°~Amy~°]

Lori wrote: "GR have now disabled external links completely in new posts not just the html link. They have also disabled the ability to edit a post that has an external link in it. Any external links previously..."

Oh wow, what a mess. I hope this is a temporary thing.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

The next round of suggestions will be at 7 pm Central time on Thurs, Sep 23.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Kendra wrote: "Are we going to have a close call poll like we did last year?"

Kendra, the mods were discussing it, but it doesn't look like we will have the opportunity because there are so few prompts left to be voted in... we have usually done it the first week of October, but we may be on our final poll by then and we don't want to block someone from submitting a new prompt idea because we have a Close Calls poll. We will see how voting shakes out but as of right now, no.

I'm going to have to do some brainstorming and research about this new Goodreads thing. SO ANNOYING.

[Thomas]

When do we find out what the readathon winner picked?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Jackie is working on that now, Thomas, and it will likely be announced either tomorrow with the winners of Poll 14, or next week with the winners of Poll 15.

The new messaging issue is making it a bit harder for us to reach people so we will keep y'all posted.

[Thomas]

Oh, that’s a pain. The messaging thing I mean

[Jillian]

Emily, do you mind if I copy and paste the information about notifications to share with some of my other groups?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Don't mind at all! Feel free to share!

[[deleted user]]

So at the moment it appears some members can post links and some can’t. No one knows why that’s the case. It’s not geographically based.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I can't do any, someone said it works if you leave of http//, but that didn't help me.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

And I am able to... hopefully that lasts through our last few polls and we don't have to find a roundabout way to send out surveys.

[NancyJ]

Emily, does the winner already know they won?

Robin, do you have a folder here (like Footnotes on PBT), that we can use to discuss GR problems, links, inability to send DM's, friending issues, and related communication concerns?

I tried sending some DMs and got a message saying this person doesn't accept messages. Some people are reporting other problems with friending.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

The winner was friend requested and they had a set of question validations on in order to friend request, so Jackie left the note saying they won in those boxes. Hopefully they see that friend request soon, but we will give them a couple of days to respond.

[NancyJ]

Thanks I can stop daydreaming about it then. 🙃

Everyone check for friend requests!

[Duygu]

On another note... What do you guys think about this prompt:

A book that takes place mostly underwater