Steven’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2009)

Steven’s comments from the Amazonians Who GoodRead group.

What are Amazon affiliate links?

A thought. . . The person responsible for the community (friends, etc.) was Russell Dicker. He introduced us to himself on one of the discussion boards, as I recall. His academic background? Industrial Management and Economics. In terms of the old "friends" and discussion boards arena, I think a sociologist or psychologist would have been much better. There was a social side to the friends network that someone in management, economics, or engineering is unlikely to understand. So, the selection of someone who did not understand social networks, etc. was most unfortunate. The social element was lost. Now, Amazon is a pretty cold place.

I haven't yet read anything there. I have enough books stacked up that I'm not sure that I will do any reading there.

Themis-Athena wrote: "I think many of us feel like that. Great shame indeed! Amazon reviewers were the first and longest-lasting (informal) online group I joined; to this date, most of my online friends are/were fello..."

Good question. I am quite sure that there are some friends whom I have forgotten about--but I have no record of my listing of friends and would not even know. Quite frustrating.

I find is stunning what happened at Amazon. Discussion groups don't work; the whole "Friends" system was simply terminated. I found it quite nice to communicate with friends through postings and so on. A pretty cold environment. More than that, I have lost track of some former friends whom I'd still like to communicate with from time to time.

Sounds like a cool book. How does one enter? Just let you know?

This is a neat little feature, this contest of yours.

Hooray! My friends and interesting people are back on Amazon. . . . I realized now how many Friends and Interesting people I haven't been following, since I didn't recall all names.

Yikes! I get a sense of what my bribe would have to look like!

Sounds cool! Look forward to the details. Sounds like any entrants in the context need to be prerpared to bribe the judges!

Steve

Pam wrote: "FYI--

The WINNERS of my last contest were drawn by my daughter this morning. (My son ran off to the sandbox and wouldn't come in when called!)

She would like to thank Garp and Sgt.BigG for the ch..."

Follow up. . . . I still have only 50 in each category. Is anyone here aware of when this limitation might end?

Aha! The mysery may be solved. One of my friends found that because of Amazon's crunching needs, temporarily only 50 Amazon Friends and 50 Interesting People could be listed per account. Soon, the full set (if one have more than 50 in either category) will be back.

Like other folks on Amazon, I now have just 50 friends and 50 interesting people. Probably a short term glitch. I'm just curious if there is anyone from Amazonland who had more than 50 friends or interesting people and who has NOT seen the number drop to 50.

I wish! But I haven't seen any real change in votes (other than the usual number of new ones). Anyone else have anything to say about Pam's question?

What's been members' experiences with the (sometimes) large decline in the number of "fan voters" reported in the rankings by Amazon? I went from somewhere around 250-260 to 81. Not nearly as large as some declines, but pretty substantial.

A book on Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley (Civil War), a cookbook by Anthony Bourdain, a book about the Battle of Bentonville (Civil War), War Songs (by Grady Harp), and a vegetarian cookbook. . . .

My father once told me "Never volunteer." I didn't even know I was volunteering to be a moderator and it happened anyway! I'v sent off a batch of invitations (about 15).

Fans aren't so bad (at least someoen is reading my stuff!), but those wretched trolls! Looks like Amazon has been fairly successful at keeping my 2 persistent negginators (I'm lucky it's only 2) from having their no votes stick. I, too, am surprised at how many "fans" are counted for me.

Oops. Friends--not feiends

I have gone over my list of Amazon friends whoe are also feiends on Goodreads. Worth inviting some of these to join this group?

Judy Polhemus
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
Michele Cozzens
Linda Bulger
Betty Dravis
Melika Sannese
Thomas Wikman
Christy Tillery (French)
Helmut Schneider
Goran [Giordano Bruno:]
Linda Pagliuco
Grady Harp
jpski3332002peterson [JP'sPicks on Amazon:]
Linda Merlino
Kendra
Ivan
Caesar Warrington
Laurel-rain Snow
Andre Heeger
Jennifer (JC-S)
Chase Von
Glenda Bixler
Karen [Joan:]
Betty Dravis
Cherise [Everhart:]

Anyhow, just a thought on maybe expanding membership.


Steve