It's happening over here! Because, really, I'm having a migraine that made me freezing cold all day - I'm never cold - and made me look pale. I'm like, yeah, this is at the top of my list of 'I really care about this shit'. Good timing, GR. You picked the time that I could care the least!
Sorry to hear that :(
I only started with the occasional migraine relatively late in life, but it's scary as hell. The pain, the fuzzy auras, the zig-zaggy rainbow shit & the nausea. It ain't no garden variety headache, and I really hope yours passes by soon. *fingers crossed*
It's dead save for trolls. Hope your headache goes away soon. I don't get migraines, but I get terrible tension headaches so I sort of understand what you're going through.
Thank you. I'm considering calling in sick to work tomorrow. I ate, and feel a little better, but still like I'm gonna puke. The noise of the clicking keys just typing is irritating the hell out of me.
Well, I hope you feel better. I know my sister ended up going to her GP and got some beta blockers when her migraines got too bad. I still can't believe that they banned you for that. Oh, wait I sort of can. I finally got my reviews back that they deleted in September and I found nothing remotely offensive about them.
I understand, Litchick. Sent you an IM. And yeah, it's just a huge fail on GRs part -_- Anyway, if you want the same IM everyone else is getting, lemme know.
Blah. there should have been a second paragraph to Howdy. I'm just still at not my best. I may go back to the doctor's to see what I can do about the migraines.
I honestly stayed because a couple friends didn't want to move to BL. My dedication to my friends didn't overpower my hating what they were becoming. Perhaps I should have left far earlier!
I'm so glad I never really got into Goodreads. I'm very concerned about them censoring reviews. I will admit I do not like personal attack's on authors in reviews but saying a book sucks does not constitute a personal attack. After doing some reading I've found that a lot of their reviews are being deleted not because the reviews are bad or because of personal attacks but because of comments in their forums/comment sections and other times I simply cannot find a good reason for a deleted review. GR is a social media platform and comments have no standing on a review. It's all quite ridiculous. Not sure I want to keep putting my reviews on there anymore. Read this really great article which is a bit older but gives some clarification on what all is happening. So sorry about the migraines you'll have. Those are awful and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Here's that link: http://soapboxing.net/2013/10/by-the-numbers-an-analysis-of-the-reviews-deleted-in-the-goodreads-policy-change.html
Thank you! I've been attacked on GR. An author called me a cunt and got a warning. There was a book up for months that had my FB picture on it, and said I stalked people - and I almost called a lawyer when that didn't get as quickly as reviews were taken down. Yeah, GR has slowly been becoming a joke for a long, long time. STGRB have been 'doxxing' me, and threatening me for a little longer. I have a hard time taking GR seriously anymore.
PS - thank you for the link. I have read that, a couple times, actually. Isn't is fabulous? Hopefully someone who hasn't read it will stumble upon it, and read it. Also, thank you, yeah migraines suck! This is in two parts because I was so out of it, I couldn't keep that whole post of yours in mind -_- I am not at the top of my game right now.
I just got an email returning all my content. Minus the comments, of course. Too bad all the reviews they deleted for being against TOS were completely empty. The only thing there was the comments. Fucking assholes. smh.
It's not like you're losing much Grim. I barely even do anything but talk to you guys and my one other small group. All of who I talk to through email, as well. It's no great loss for you, that's for sure. Still irritating that they're turning into an author site. I can only imagine how awesome it'll be when every discussion and review there is a bunch of authors, mostly SPA's, kissing each others asses or spamming everything they can. Sounds awesome, no?
Oh, darn, I don't get to be part of that? I'm much more interested in seeing if Megatron will fuck Optimus through the concrete. (Spoiler - he won't. That only happens in fanfiction. And Transformers: Animated.)
I've noticed that their catalog isn't what it used to be. It seems their free labor isn't able to keep up since so many others left. Such a pain because they used to have an amazing catalog. Now I'm forced to do what I used to do - search all over different sites for data. It's sad that so many authors don't even have their own books organized on their own websites:-(
I'm glad I was never a librarian for them. I was upset enough when I left. I would have been livid. Of course, it's also why I'm leery of even thinking of adding books over here. I'm afraid they'll finally figure out a way to import all of that data and I would have wasted all of my time for nothing.
I also only use it as a catalogue (to copy the ISBN into BL and find the books here :-))
I won't put any new reviews on that site.
I am so sorry, Grimlock!
Thank you. It's funny - I thought I'd be more upset, and I'm not. At all. Booklikes is such a better atmosphere, with no net-nannies, and the customizable blogs, and Dawid saying he wouldn't touch STGRB with a ten-foot pole.
I do like it so much here, too! And I think the book cataloguing will improve every day. I even try to buy the books over the links here, to make them some money (to show my appreciation :-))
Surprising, huh? Oh, wait, what's the opposite of surprising. I'll shoot you a PM, too, if you want. And thanks. I'm on here way more than GR anyway, so, shrugs. GR was just stressing me out.
I only started with the occasional migraine relatively late in life, but it's scary as hell. The pain, the fuzzy auras, the zig-zaggy rainbow shit & the nausea. It ain't no garden variety headache, and I really hope yours passes by soon. *fingers crossed*
I'm only over there because I have several very close friends that refuse to move.
It's not like you're losing much Grim. I barely even do anything but talk to you guys and my one other small group. All of who I talk to through email, as well. It's no great loss for you, that's for sure. Still irritating that they're turning into an author site. I can only imagine how awesome it'll be when every discussion and review there is a bunch of authors, mostly SPA's, kissing each others asses or spamming everything they can. Sounds awesome, no?
I won't put any new reviews on that site.
I am so sorry, Grimlock!