Tuesday Thingers
May. 21st, 2008 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesYes, it's Wednesday. By the time I got around to checking the master post at our esteemed host Bostonbibliophile, I was too flattened by the day's distractions to write something sensible. Prompt for the week is:
Discussion groups. Do you belong to any (besides Early Reviewers)? Approximately how many? Are there any in particular that you participate in more avidly? How often do you check?
22 that I'm a member of or have on my watch list, though I'll dip into others from time to time. The first group I joined, and the only one I was active in for a long time, was Folio Society Devotees. What got me out of there and active on some of the groups about the site itself was an early spam incident. I received a friend request from an author that was clearly purely an attempt at promoting his new book, and I went looking for somewhere to complain about it... I'm moderately active in Early Reviewers, Site Talk, New Features and Recommend Site Improvements -- i.e mostly geeking about the site itself.
How often I check depends on how busy I am and whether I'm in any active conversations. I've been known to check every ten minutes when I'm desperately trying to avoid work and there's a fast moving conversation going on. :-) More typically, every day or two for the four I've mentioned above. Others I sometimes check only every few weeks. I'd read the Folio Society group more often, but I'm trying to avoid temptation as we're currently in a small flat and I have been told that I am not allowed to buy any more bookcases, and no, I may not leave the books in a pile on the floor instead.
One of the things I like about the groups is that it's generally interesting conversation that mostly manages to stay good tempered. I have other places to hang out on the net where I can find that, but it's always good to have more. Not bad for something I only joined so that I could easily catalogue get my books for insurance purposes.
Discussion groups. Do you belong to any (besides Early Reviewers)? Approximately how many? Are there any in particular that you participate in more avidly? How often do you check?
22 that I'm a member of or have on my watch list, though I'll dip into others from time to time. The first group I joined, and the only one I was active in for a long time, was Folio Society Devotees. What got me out of there and active on some of the groups about the site itself was an early spam incident. I received a friend request from an author that was clearly purely an attempt at promoting his new book, and I went looking for somewhere to complain about it... I'm moderately active in Early Reviewers, Site Talk, New Features and Recommend Site Improvements -- i.e mostly geeking about the site itself.
How often I check depends on how busy I am and whether I'm in any active conversations. I've been known to check every ten minutes when I'm desperately trying to avoid work and there's a fast moving conversation going on. :-) More typically, every day or two for the four I've mentioned above. Others I sometimes check only every few weeks. I'd read the Folio Society group more often, but I'm trying to avoid temptation as we're currently in a small flat and I have been told that I am not allowed to buy any more bookcases, and no, I may not leave the books in a pile on the floor instead.
One of the things I like about the groups is that it's generally interesting conversation that mostly manages to stay good tempered. I have other places to hang out on the net where I can find that, but it's always good to have more. Not bad for something I only joined so that I could easily catalogue get my books for insurance purposes.
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