You can't blame me for trying
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Well, for the first time, I thought I would be a civil minded SUpper and check out googlegroups. One of the first threads was someone asking a decent question and I thought, "What the heck, this is a good time for a first post".
So, I type out my reply and send it. And it gets punted back with a "there was an error connecting with google and you post was not posted" or some such. And to make matters worse, as soon as you navigate away from that page, your message is deleted. So, instead of copying my message and coming back later to post, I have run back here with my tail between my legs.
Nothing like smashing your thumb with the first swing of a new hammer.
And the real bummer is that guy, or gal, doesn't get an answer, at least right now.
Sure makes me appreciate here!!!
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All the more reason for me to not even attempt a visit there.
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It's not enough that the site is an unorganized chaotic mess, but it doesn't work, too?!!
Bad google, very bad.
FWIW, I have had tech support messages bounce back, too, which is highly annoying!
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I don't blame you for trying, but please let me say:
nanananana
poster-Maggy
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I thought their moto was don't be evil? to me evil is lost work... I hate doing something twice or even worse three times... evil google evil....
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Yeah, fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice..........
I doubt there will be a twice, really.
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@unknownuser said:
FWIW, I have had tech support messages bounce back, too, which is highly annoying!
Hardly what you would expect from big corporates. Recently I typed out my feedback (displeasure, actually) on the ABN AMRO Bank website contact form. Almost immediately I got an e-mail from their postmaster saying the message was not delivered because it was too long. It included an attachment of my message in .txt format which was less than 1 kb!!
Nothing like the intimacy of small companies, if you know what I mean!
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@unknownuser said:
And the real bummer is that guy, or gal, doesn't get an answer, at least right now.
Google Groups seems to have resolved their server issues, although they were certainly having problems yesterday.
Since I have already been exposed to the Google Groups cooties many times with no noticeable ill-effects (although I realize that dulled sensibilities may itself be a symptom) I can swing by and confirm that your guy or gal has been answered. What was the issue or the name of the poster?
-Gully
poster-Gully Foyle
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I too try, Kannonbal, but not posting, just watching how it goes.
I´m expectant on seeing next 28th how the transfer goes.
I cant avoid feeling inside some hope they will be able to make it attractive for us.
I´m really curious.
But, it is most grateful to be under cover in here and so being able to watch in comfort
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about every 6 months I drop a few website invitations in there for search relevence on my website
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I tried today to nose around on GG. I already am able to log into the GE group, but left it because nobody seems to read bug reports except other bug reporters. Evil Google...
But today I wasn't able to enter any Google group, not GE, not SU, just the weirdest messages like "Google is temporary offline, sorry for the inconvenience", "please check your login name and password and try again", error 404 !?!poster-Maggy
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@unknownuser said:
about every 6 months I drop a few website invitations in there for search relevence on my website
I don't know what that means. Can you restate, please?
-Gully
poster-Gully Foyle
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He means that showing the URL of your website in public places creates a number of hits that push up the rating of the site on Google searches. That's how Google works: count how many websites link to your site, count how many people follow that link. More links and more clicks means higher in the search results.
Actually dropping the URL on many different sites is better for your rating than dropping it several times in the same forum/group, links are more important than clicks. Google caches every website, but it's not able to capture every click.
poster-Maggy
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maggy, has hit the nail on the head... although I don't limit myself to GG I spread my love around... like here. and I try to make the post informative as well... but I do this to create both a good ranking from Google, and to bring true visitors that are highly related to my field... it does me no good to get a bunch of people looking for dog collars... I need people interested in architecture and even more so in unique architecture.
anyway point ... if you have a site, and you want it to be successful, get links to your site every day, in some way. related helpful content... and the users will come, that's why I'm here... to build some of that. we really should also be helping Coen and this group by posting, linking, blogging this site, on other sites.
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So you're saying it's a commercial posting on a public website, designed to generate revenue.
Frankly, it sounds like spamming to me. Or like the "sponsored links" everyone is so indignant about at the old forum.
What I really don't understand is why you saw fit to mention it in this thread.
-Gully
poster-Gully Foyle
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What if a dentist with Sketchup as hobby (or perhaps it could even be used to design dental work) would sign off in this forum as
Cheers
MZ
http://www.dentistinAmsterdam.nlwould that be spam? Nobody would click thal link unless you need a dentist in Amsterdam.
It would be spam otoh if he would post this signature in any odd forum without writing anything useful.
This thread is about visiting GG and I believe it's absolutely legitimate to use (not abuse) GG in this way. So I believe it's also perfectly on topic.poster-Maggy
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Maggy,
I was certainly not expecting to encounter that kind of logic.
-Gully
poster-Gully Foyle
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spamming, is to repeat the same thing over and over... people took the term over for mail sometime back. but if you are in a thread about architecture and my site is about architecture and I have just given you advice... then really it amounts to bibliography... then again everything I do is for revenue... being the Capitalist I am...
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@unknownuser said:
@unknownuser said:
And the real bummer is that guy, or gal, doesn't get an answer, at least right now.
Google Groups seems to have resolved their server issues, although they were certainly having problems yesterday.
Since I have already been exposed to the Google Groups cooties many times with no noticeable ill-effects (although I realize that dulled sensibilities may itself be a symptom) I can swing by and confirm that your guy or gal has been answered. What was the issue or the name of the poster?
-Gully
That is a very nice gesture, Gully. I can't remember the particulars of the poster, but it was about how to deform the faces of a cube to achieve a sagging effect. I talked about the Sandbox tools, and using Add Detail to get a grid on a cube so you can deform with Smoove. I also said you go make a grid from the raw, copy and rotate the face into a grid, and then start Smooving. I was in the Pro group (I think that is what it is called).
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or "crash" for that matter, that is after the old SU forum gets shot down.
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