5 posts tagged “groups”

It’s nearly eight months since I started the Cars’ group here on Vox. We are now seven members shy of 100, the group is vibrant and spam-free, and I want to thank all members for making it a great place to be.
   We have had spammers come in, but I have been quite active in deleting the obvious ones before they caused any trouble. One or two have got through, and were deleted after they sneaked in one spam post.
   To see how badly things could have got, I visited the old Cars Rock! group today. It still looks like no one is managing it, despite my suggesting to the group creators that I would be happy to help. There are a few legit posts there, but since mid-2009, spammers pretty much control the place, right down to multiple Russian porn posts.
   No problems with that here. We have great posts from all over the world—Japan, the US, Australia and New Zealand most often—and it’s exactly what I hoped the group would become. Thank you.

This seems to happen every now and then and it’s got me paranoid.
   In 2006, I posted some photos here on Vox privately and they still managed to show up publicly. Last week, the first private Lucire Thailand post still wound up visible to Google—where I saw it today—even though I had marked it ‘Friends and family’ here.
   Be very careful of private posts. I suspect it’s because I post to groups that the Thai post became visible, but I don’t ever remember that happening before.

If anyone is wondering where I have been, the answer is Facebook. Darn, that site is addictive. There are groups on there as well as a social-networking function, and my opinion (with my initial opposition) has turned 180 degrees thanks to Facebook’s good service and the tidiness of its interface. The groups themselves have more or less supplanted my interest in Yahoo! Groups. I can even import my blog entries.
   There are half a dozen Jack Yans on there, however, though I imagine you do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out which one is yours truly.
   There is an awful lot of Canadians there, which is interesting. I am not sure if Facebook is a Canadian site, but their nationals seem to have taken to it more than any other group.
   Any friends reading this, feel free to link me. Quite a few of my contacts there appear to be fellow bloggers to whom I am linked through my main site’s blog roll.

I have started a new Vox group called Fashion Magazines, at fashionmags.groups.vox.com. I thought I’d expand the dialogue, since there is a general fashion group and one on fashion photography—it seems the right time to do one specifically for magazines. Share news inside and outside the industry, talk about your favourite magazines, photo shoots, articles. All are welcome.
   My posts are a bit biased to inside the industry, but I would love to get readers’ views, especially on topics that might be a little controversial. The industry needs to answer a lot of these, including New York’s decision not to ban too-thin models.

I guess I am getting into Vox a bit more, and have to take back some of my earlier comments about it not being of much use to me since I had an existing blog. So thanks to Robin for the intro in the first place, and to Randy for his effortless promotion and introducing us to Vox’s new features!
   Today, I joined a few more groups, just to see if that would work out as well as the main part of this blog. So hi to the folks in the new groups, and I hope you’ll have me!