Doubt it. It took them two weeks to give me a generic canned reply. Needless to say I was not impressed, and it looks like they have no intention of allowing us to control our privacy.
I agree. Thank you. Many enjoy being public, or don't care and that's fine. But it should be our choice and in our control. I can't even control who follows me up front, that's nuts. This site is obviously designed for and caters to bloggers. They don't want regular readers like me.
Yup. I was told this site was pro-reader, but I think that is mistaken. I believe from what I see it is pro-blogger.
And thank you, that is very sweet. I'll stick around in a limited capacity, as there are several here I enjoy hearing from that are not on GR. But I won't be adding much "value added" content for BL's benefit.
I'd also quibble with them being "our own pages". If that were true we could control who could view them, and set them to Friends/Followers only. Sure we can write and post what we want (within TOS), but it's all to provide BL with public content for the benefit of BL.
Wow! That is nuts! I've never seen them delete a review, much less ban someone, for something so innocuous. Not, that I don't believe you, I absolutely do. There was a period there when they went a bit crazy in that regard.
I don't blame you. GR does have issues. I don't post many reviews there anymore, because they refuse to allow me to set my reviews to Friends only, and they don't allow legitimate consumer comments regarding reasons we don't want to read/buy a book. But at least there I can set my page to Friends only, and set comments on my reviews to Friends only, and control if I have Followers. In that regard GR isn't as good as it should be, but it's vastly superior to BL, and BL doesn't appear to be interested in improving.
Organizing my books/shelves on GR is also vastly better (IMO), although I know BL is working on things and might get better. I'd be willing to have some patience with that aspect, if they were more serious and respectful of user privacy.
If you care about privacy, yeah, BL kinda... blows in that regard. I've always said I can't see myself going to GR or even Leafmarks as it is now, as I enjoy the customization so much. I want to see Grimlock everywhere on my page!
Yeah. The perfect bookish social site. Does it even exist yet?
GR used to be excellent, other than forcing our reviews to display publicly. But as most of us are aware, that has changed significantly.
I'd love customization, but I think that aspect here is crappy too. I can't even change the darn font color. I'm stuck with the ugly default page, because the pics I want don't show the text well and I can't fix it. It's clunky, non-intuitive, and completely user unfriendly. Then anything you do do only shows up to others, your page still looks like crap to you.
I cannot think of one thing I like about BL, other than being able to discuss author behavior. That is it.
There are ways to create those text boxes, but I'm not that great with HTML. Same thing with font color except that's a bit easier, as I found some tutorials and was able to change it fairly easily.
But it took me a while to figure that out.
And :( I'm sorry. I love it, but I understand why others don't. I understand completely.
Thanks. I know it can be done, since I see others have. But it's not set to function for readers here to catalog, review and discuss books. It's set up for bloggers who already know how or don't mind spending hours fiddling with it. I just want to change the blasted font color, that should take two clicks in Settings, not require I read an HTML manual.
I work in IT and have a general understanding of the concept. If I feel this way I can imagine what an average social site user would think. I think they intentionally made it complicated so people would buy their premade themes. But if they want to appeal to a broader group of people they are going to have to be much more user friendly and security conscious.
But thanks for listening to me vent. It is rare for someone to be so respectful and understanding of preferences they don't share, and I really appreciate it.
I tend to be that way. I don't like hypocrisy, scamming and that kind of shit - but if it's just about not liking BL? I'm good with that. I'm sad that so many of my friends have jumped ship, but I understand why they did, why they find GR easier to use, and I support that if they choose to use GR. Free speech and customization were my deal breakers, though, and I would have ditched GR for BL eventually once I figured out I could HTML all those changes!
And yeah, I came in knowing nothing about HTML and wanted to cry. I still don't understand the text color boxes, so I don't even try anymore.
And I don't buy the premade because I like have Grimlock as my background, and will just end up changing him. I don't see the need to spend money on that, but I'm practical that way.
Maybe this coming Thursday?
That sucks! I don't care as much as others do, but if you /do/ care, that's upsetting.
Which is a shame. I love seeing you here, and I'm not on Goodreads. Sadness.
And thank you, that is very sweet. I'll stick around in a limited capacity, as there are several here I enjoy hearing from that are not on GR. But I won't be adding much "value added" content for BL's benefit.
I'd also quibble with them being "our own pages". If that were true we could control who could view them, and set them to Friends/Followers only. Sure we can write and post what we want (within TOS), but it's all to provide BL with public content for the benefit of BL.
I was banned from GR, and one of the reviews I was banned for simply said 'I don't like kids books' and another was a legitimate review.
So, yeah... I'm not going to GR at all if I can help it.
I don't blame you. GR does have issues. I don't post many reviews there anymore, because they refuse to allow me to set my reviews to Friends only, and they don't allow legitimate consumer comments regarding reasons we don't want to read/buy a book. But at least there I can set my page to Friends only, and set comments on my reviews to Friends only, and control if I have Followers. In that regard GR isn't as good as it should be, but it's vastly superior to BL, and BL doesn't appear to be interested in improving.
Organizing my books/shelves on GR is also vastly better (IMO), although I know BL is working on things and might get better. I'd be willing to have some patience with that aspect, if they were more serious and respectful of user privacy.
If you care about privacy, yeah, BL kinda... blows in that regard. I've always said I can't see myself going to GR or even Leafmarks as it is now, as I enjoy the customization so much. I want to see Grimlock everywhere on my page!
Yeah. The perfect bookish social site. Does it even exist yet?
I'd love customization, but I think that aspect here is crappy too. I can't even change the darn font color. I'm stuck with the ugly default page, because the pics I want don't show the text well and I can't fix it. It's clunky, non-intuitive, and completely user unfriendly. Then anything you do do only shows up to others, your page still looks like crap to you.
I cannot think of one thing I like about BL, other than being able to discuss author behavior. That is it.
But it took me a while to figure that out.
And :( I'm sorry. I love it, but I understand why others don't. I understand completely.
But thanks for listening to me vent. It is rare for someone to be so respectful and understanding of preferences they don't share, and I really appreciate it.
And yeah, I came in knowing nothing about HTML and wanted to cry. I still don't understand the text color boxes, so I don't even try anymore.
And I don't buy the premade because I like have Grimlock as my background, and will just end up changing him. I don't see the need to spend money on that, but I'm practical that way.