Mitchell’s Comments (group member since Feb 05, 2017)

Mitchell’s comments from the Listopia group.

so listopia relates to https://www.goodreads.com/list?ref=na...

you get there by clicking on browse -> lists

please remove your unrelated messages from this discussion.

Please vote on the lists so they can continue to be maintained:

Popular Fantasy on Goodreads with between 100 and 999 ratings

Popular Fantasy on Goodreads with between 1000 and 9999 ratings

Popular Fantasy on Goodreads with between 10000 and 24999 ratings

Popular Fantasy on Goodreads with between 100000 and 199999 ratings

Please vote on the lists so they can continue to be maintained:

All Graphic Novels with 2,000 to 2,999 ratings

All Graphic Novels with 3,000 to 4,999 ratings

All Graphic Novels with 5,000 to 9,999 ratings

what do these comments on New World Order have to do with listopia?

Wow it has been awhile since I made this announcement. But I could definitely use help maintaining a number of the semi-related topic lists. You can see the links to them on the description of almost any of the lists.

A good starting point is
Books with a million or more ratings

That list itself is fine but just about any of the links and that page could use help.

And the below could use a lot of help.

The easiest way to help is just going to the back of the list and voting 100 times on the lowest ranked books with only 1 voter. Since everyone is limited to just 100 votes, this will allow me and the other list maintainers to change their votes to graduate books from other lists. And to add books that are missing on the lists.

Specific lists that need help - starting with the really new ones
- Fantasy with 100,000 to 200,000 ratings
- Romance with 100,000 to 200,000 ratings
- Graphic Novels with 25,000 to 50,000 ratings
- Romance with more than 200,000 ratings
- Fantasy with more than 200,000 ratings
- Graphic Novels with more than 50,000 ratings
- Books with 200,000 to 500,000 ratings
- Books with 150,000 to 200,000 ratings
- Books with 100,000 to 150,000 ratings

For the books with graduated ratings, even if you have voted before - please go back and vote again. Quite a few of your previously voted books may have graduated off the pages.

So I've got a new way of monitoring goodreads list which is pretty lightweight but allows me to see when a book is added to one of my lists or a book is removed.

I've got a related relatively easy way of checking a list to see if books have below or above a certain ratings threshold.

If you are interesting in doing something similar, I'd be happy to make my method available. Also if you are doing something similar, I'd love to hear about it.

Again I want to point people to the page goodreads has to show the most recent lists that have been created - https://www.goodreads.com/list/new_lists

So I hadn't looked at the new lists page in awhile - mostly because it doesn't seem to show up on the main listopia anymore.

And I was struck with how little people look for existing duplicate lists. Or how much people want their own new version of existing lists.

So if you are out there creating lists, what are you thinking?

Again I ask - is anyone out there? I know plenty of lists are still being created on goodreads. And voted on and maintained. And read. So presumably there are other list creators wanting to chat and share and complain and support each other.

Please vote on this list so I can cover more countries Most Rated Book by Country.

Even better if you have suggestions for books that were missed.

Please vote on this list so I can complete it ALSC 2022 Notable Children's Books - it has slightly more than 100 books. thanks

Please vote on the lists so they can continue to be maintained:
Popular Science Fiction on GoodReads with between 10000 and 24999 ratings
Best Science Fiction on Goodreads with between 1000 and 9999 ratings

Please vote on my new list for the Sibert Award
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/201526.Sibert_Medal_Winners_and_Honors

Please vote on the list:
The Most Popular Time Travel Books on Goodreads

This has been a really useful thread for me and Fairytalesbliss - but if there is anyone else out there, having more people helping maintain these lists by also voting would be really useful. And pointing out other lists that need help - say award winner and nominee lists would also be a great use of this thread.

Is there anyone else out there?

Please vote on the following lists so the can continue to be maintained:
Books with ratings from 150 thousand to 200 thousand
Books with ratings from 100 thousand to 150 thousand

Please vote on the following lists so that they can continue to be maintained:

All Non Fiction on Goodreads with 25,000 to 49,999 ratings

All Non Fiction on Goodreads with 50,000 to 99,999ratings

Anyone out there reading this - feel free to also vote on these lists as well as post about other lists with the same challenge. Again this is not really promoting a list - though that would fit the concept of this group.

Please vote on the following to help maintain these lists:
90,000 to 99,999 ratings
Popular Romance on Goodreads with between 25000 and 50000 ratings
Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

Some suggestions about creating maintainable lists:

1 put in a limitation in the list to try to get the targeted number of the books to be approximately within the number of maintainers. This generally means <100 books. This can be done by limiting books to a publishing date range, or a number of ratings range (usually a minimum number), or a number of shelvings in a topic or limiting books in a series to only the first book. These limits also help for when (not if) the list gets vandalized. Getting a librarian to remove a book from a list without super-clear criteria is much harder - generally I won't do it - and I became a librarian solely to remove books from lists.

2 drive usage of the lists - use the tags. use the description. look for related lists - like say popular romance - and announce your lists in the comments. add links to related lists in the description. The more active good users of a list, the easier it is to maintain. The million ratings list has only two active maintainers - but it has a lot of voters - though mostly they haven't found the second page.

3 become a librarian - vandalism both intentional and unintentional of goodreads lists are inevitable. And becoming a librarian and using that power to maintain your own lists is much easier than begging other librarians to do it for you.

4 recognize that a single voter on a book on a list is a risk - their goodreads profile gets closed and that vote goes away. And there is no hint as to which books were lost.