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The heck? Someone added me to Goodreads as an author, because of my fanfics. o_O https://t.co/JQRaF0zgMe
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 4, 2017
Huh. I wonder if I should ask if it should be removed, or claim it. >_>;
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 4, 2017
Hmm, so, after two tries, I now have control/ownership of the pages for my fanfics that got added to Goodreads by someone other than me.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 17, 2017
It's kind of weird to be considered a "Goodreads Author" now, just because of some fanfics, but okay. That's pretty cool, I guess.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 17, 2017
Though... I still apparently cannot edit my own author profile without "librarian status" whatever that is. This is getting complicated. >_>
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 17, 2017
Well, hopefully it won't be too awfully long before I have a bona fide book or four to add to that, and not just fanfic. We'll see, I guess.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 17, 2017
So yeah, this is actually somewhat frustrating. I went from being able to fully edit my own profile to, um, *not* being able to do that. :/
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
Not sure what the turnaround time is for applications for "librarian status," but it also says they *won't* notify you if you don't get it.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
And having to request random strangers edit my own profile for me is not a thing that I'm willing to do at this point.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
Or, hell, even if someone I actually know has "librarian status" on Goodreads and could do it, I'd still feel weird asking them to do it.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
I can see why they wouldn't want anyone to be able to just edit anything on the site, willy nilly...
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
...but disallowing one from editing their *own* *profile* without this special status seems a rather odd decision to me.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
I'm kind of starting to regret claiming those fanfics I wrote and becoming a "Goodreads Author" in the first place. :/
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
I'll give it a bit before I make any drastic decisions, but if I've permanently lost the ability to edit my profile, may as well delete it.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
Assuming I've even still able to do *that* anymore, of course. ¬_¬
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
I'll give it another week or two and see how it goes (or doesn't go), I guess. *shrug*
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
Actually, after doing a Google search, I saw that someone else had the same problem and it was a bug, apparently.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
I think I'll see about contacting Goodreads support over this issue and see how it goes, in addition to applying for the "librarian status."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
...Fuck. Okay, I managed to suss out the problem myself. Apparently, there is already another person with my name with an author page.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
When I used my full first name, and not just the nickname that everyone calls me by, the change was accepted.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
So yeah, this one here: https://t.co/fgNtfarQQb That ain't me. Mine is this one: https://t.co/AlelNUvpUB >_>;
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
I knew there was *something* fucking screwy going on, but it took me longer than it probably should have for me to realize what it was. >_>;
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
It wasn't that Goodreads didn't let me edit my profile, it's that they didn't let me change the name to that of an already existing author.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
So yeah, all is right with the world again, I suppose. (And maybe it'd be a *good* thing if I didn't get "librarian status" after all. >_>;)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2017
TL;DR version: It seems that I am a "Goodreads Author" now, thanks to some fanfics I wrote that someone other than me added to Goodreads.
Mostly unrelated issues: 1) Twitter embeds obviously don't look the same on Dreamwidth as they did on LiveJournal, though that's okay as long as the content is there, and 2) I've got to get used to using just <cut> instead of the old <lj-cut> tag.
(EDIT) And I could edit my page all along. It's just that I was trying to change my name to... well... my name, but apparently someone else who has the same name as me already had an Author page on Goodreads. I was able to use my full first name instead of the nickname, though, and that worked okay. (/EDIT)
