Comfort Reads discussion
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Questions about using Goodreads?
Lisa, this was a good thread idea. I have in the past always asked Lee in a message to her inbox..... She has always been so kind and helped me! Here we can all help each other, and I will not have to bug poor Lee!
Chrissie, and All,Yes, Members message me frequently with questions because I'm so active on the site. I like helping people and so I enjoy that, but sometimes I refer them to the Goodreads Feedback or Goodreads Librarians groups because many heads are better than one.
I don't know if group members here will need/want to use this thread, but I do know that some people are new or fairly new to Goodreads, and even those of us who've been Goodreads members for a long time are always learning about new features, etc.
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And Chrissie, I don't mind you or anyone asking me for help. I don't always have the answers though - LOL! We can pool our knowledge this way.
I know Lee, that is because you are such a nice friend!
I need Goodreads help. There is a member who pops in on another group I'm in just to aggravate the members and disturb the discussions. Where are the official Goodreads rules about blocking members from your group? Where are the Goodreads rules about being a moderator?
Jeannette, It's at the moderator's discretion whether or not to oust a member.
It depends on what you mean by aggravate. You can flag comments, block the member, all depending. You can message the member first if you want but if they're just being provocative deliberately, there's not much point in that.
Here are Goodreads' moderator guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/modera...
ETA: If you need more guidance, feel free to post again!
Thanks. I will read up on it. :)
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Thanks, Lee. I'll look there, too.
Jeannette wrote: "Thanks, Lee. I'll look there, too."Lee wrote: "Jeannette, it also might be helpful to check out the moderator support group. You may get more ideas about creating guidelines and rules for your group there."
Ha! Jeannette, I just messaged you about that group and was then going to mention it in this group. ;-)
Well, I am supposed to introduce my self to the moderator group, but I couldn't figure out how to go about it. So, I went ahead and sent a request to join anyway. I suppose someone will contact me? Man, I feel like a newbie today. lol
Jeannette, Lori handles all the acceptances into the moderator group. She will approve you. Then, there's an introduce yourself thread at the very top of the discussion threads. I think it's a really helpful group.Anyone who's a mod or co-mod of any Goodreads group might want to consider joining:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2...
I have requested at: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3... that it would be nice if we got a message when our GR friends add a picture to their profile page. I miss when others have posted new photos. Lisa suggested that one could opt in or out for this message, which sounds great! I f you too would like this please go to the above site and voice your opinion. Maybe if many of us want this it could be added!
Chrissie, Yes, I do love the idea too! I don't want to miss any Oscar photos!!! ;-)
Lisa, I really was unhappy when I missed the new photo of Lee's Maggie and kitty! That is when I got the idea. (BTW - there are new photos of Oscar.) After missing Lee's photo, I went and tried checking, but everywhere I checked there were no new photos. It is impossible to check everyone! It would be so much easier with the messages!!!
Chrissie, I agree. I'm surprised nobody has asked for this before. (Maybe ages ago someone did??) And, yes, I've seen the new photos of Oscar because I happened to see one new addition on my home page so I went to your profile and looked at them all. He's just beautiful. You look great together. I'm glad it's gotten somewhat easier!
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I know they send an email when someone comments on a photo, so I would think they could do this, too. I try to just post on chat that I have put up new pictures, but people can miss that, too.
If you want it, please go to the link, above in message 14, and say you do! It doesn't help to just say so here at Comfort Reads.
Chrissie wrote: "If you want it, please go to the link and say you do there! It doesn't help to just say so here at Comfort Reads."
Yes, ma'am! I had to join the group first. :)
Yes, ma'am! I had to join the group first. :)
Thanks, Jeannette! It will come in handy to belong because issues such as this come up fairly frequently, ones where you might want to put in your 2¢.
I think everyone who's posted so far in the Goodreads Feedback thread belongs to this group! Yay Comfort Reads!
Lisa wrote: "Thanks, Jeannette! It will come in handy to belong because issues such as this come up fairly frequently, ones where you might want to put in your 2¢."
I was a member of the group for a while, back when the "search posts" bug was a top issue, but I winnowed some of my groups in the last month. I do that in a vain effort to reduce my online time. It never works! :)
I was a member of the group for a while, back when the "search posts" bug was a top issue, but I winnowed some of my groups in the last month. I do that in a vain effort to reduce my online time. It never works! :)
Oh that is nice Jeanette. I guess we are all online right now. I always get a jolt when this happens. We are all sitting here doing this together. :0)
Well Jeannette, you could make a point to just not read the Feedback posts and only read and post in threads that come to your attention and in which you have interest.Yep, it's fun to be posting at the same time with people in all different time zones! ;-)
It is a funny feeling to know we are all sitting typing/reading on Goodreads, even across the continents! It was fun when I was in Norway to know that I was in the same time zone with my European friends. :)
Lisa wrote: "Well Jeannette, you could make a point to just not read the Feedback posts and only read and post in threads that come to your attention and in which you have interest.
Yep, it's fun to be posting..."
I did set it to "no emails" from the group. We should spread the word to other groups about this one. Plus, it will get noticed by other people eventually.
Yep, it's fun to be posting..."
I did set it to "no emails" from the group. We should spread the word to other groups about this one. Plus, it will get noticed by other people eventually.
I have also mentioned the link at the Hisotical Fiction Group. Anybody who wanted to could mention it in other groups they often look at.......
Someone posted to the feedback group that this is already a feature. Lee, I will post a picture to my profile. Let me know if you get any kind of notification of this.
Jeannette wrote: "Someone posted to the feedback group that this is already a feature. Lee, I will post a picture to my profile. Let me know if you get any kind of notification of this."Jeannette, No, I saw someone said it appears on our home pages which is true, but I don't see all the activity on my home page. When my friends get active, it doesn't take long for things to be bumped off the home page. That's why an email each time would be helpful for those of us who want it.
Thanks, Lisa, now I understand how this works, showing up on the home page feed. I seldom look at my homepage, and if the GR team can post to the update feed, they should be able to add the email notice pretty easily. The mechanism is mostly in place to do this, I would guess.
I have a general question: I have two friends named "Joy". How can I differentiate between them when I send a message. The auto-type feature just brings up "Joy" twice. I have been going to the profile page and selecting "send message" and that is tedious. Any suggestions?
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I go to their profile pages and send a message from there. I tell them apart by their avatars. If first name only is what I'm given, which is sometimes the case.
Jeanette, you can also go to your inbox and reply to an earlier sent message. Of course you must have already sent the correct Jo a message!
I have been using the reply feature and/or the profile method. I can tell them apart by their avatars, but on the "send to" list they are indistinguishable. Thanks everyone! :)
Yes, the ability to reply is very helpful!
Lisa wrote: "Yes, the ability to reply is very helpful!"
I just like to change the subject sometimes. I switched from Jane Austen to soccer today, both conversations with the same person.
I just like to change the subject sometimes. I switched from Jane Austen to soccer today, both conversations with the same person.
Jeannette wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Yes, the ability to reply is very helpful!"I just like to change the subject sometimes. I switched from Jane Austen to soccer today, both conversations with the same person."
I often change the subject heading, yes.
I guess I didn't think of the obvious, did I? I can just edit the subject line. I am still using regular email protocols, while GR just gives you one uninterrupted email stream. I have to get used to that! :)
Hi Lisa!
Any tips on how to use the new "tags" feature? What kind of tags will you put on Comfort Reads, for example?
Will they be announcing this feature somewhere?
Any tips on how to use the new "tags" feature? What kind of tags will you put on Comfort Reads, for example?
Will they be announcing this feature somewhere?
Jeannette, Well, that's a good question because actually members can already search for this group with the words comfort and reads so maybe comfort-books. But, everybody feel free to give suggestions. I added some tags so we'd have some and Lee said she was sure she can think of more, but we're open to suggestions.Which words besides comfort and reads would have helped you all find this group?!
For my Vegan Book Club group I added:
animal-rights, book-club, bookclub, fiction, real-world, san-francisco, vegan
but I obviously didn't need to add vegan.
I added tags to the 2 groups I mod and the 2 groups I co-mod but it's just a work in progress so far.
Any ideas anybody for this group?
Jeannette wrote: "Hi Lisa!Any tips on how to use the new "tags" feature? What kind of tags will you put on Comfort Reads, for example?
Will they be announcing this feature somewhere?"
Otis has announced it in the Feedback group and Rivka came in and announced it in the Moderators Support group, but I don't know about a general announcement. It's in the group settings areas so mods should see it when they go into that area.
I've already seen it spreading around to some of the smaller groups I'm on. :)
Thanks for giving me some ideas!
Thanks for giving me some ideas!
Jeannette wrote: "I've already seen it spreading around to some of the smaller groups I'm on. :)Thanks for giving me some ideas!"
Sure! If you think of any tags for this group, feel free to post your ideas! Thanks, everybody. (Lee might have it covered but I think there's no limit or a large limit, so...
I think we discuss alot in this group. Its members are very active. Could discussions be a tag? Or friendly-people?
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I like your friendly people idea. Discussion might be a little too general because every group has discussions of some sort.
Lee, what makes this group exceptional is that the people REALLY are friendly to each other and we all blabb and exchange ideas. Their is alot of real discussion going on. So much so, I cannot read everything.......
We can help each other out, including sometimes directing questions/concerns to one of the official groups in order to get help.