Re:So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?
by iqster on Thursday June 30, 2011 @03:21PM
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They've stopped the invites. In fact, they essentially revoked invitations ... i.e. people I invited last night couldn't use their invitation email this morning. Unless Google turns it on soon, they're gonna lose a lot of good will. They've already managed to tick me off.
I also find it funny that people were using Facebook's wall to distribute Google+ invites to their friends. And I always thought that seeding a social network was hard :-p
Re:So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?
by bdhe on Thursday June 30, 2011 @03:39PM
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They've stopped the invites. In fact, they essentially revoked invitations ... i.e. people I invited last night couldn't use their invitation email this morning.
Is that true? I was under the impression that the invites were not guaranteed and there was some sort of rate limit on the number of invites that were allowed to create Google+ accounts. I think your invitees can retry after sometime.
Re:So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?
by mattdeboard on Thursday June 30, 2011 @04:08PM
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They didn't "essentially revoke" invitations. They capped new "account creation" (though obv it's not literally account creation). That is a separate step from inviting someone. People with invites have invites, so when they open it back up, people with invites already in hand will be at the front of the line.
Re:So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?
by wccrawford on Friday July 01, 2011 @08:01AM
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I think they've opened up invites again now, but for a while, you couldn't. I suspect it will roll in waves like that as they hit capacity and expand, over and over.
Re:So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?
by joebadmo on Thursday June 30, 2011 @04:32PM
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After having played with Google+ for a few hours, I find that the Circles feature is deceptively complicated, and can lead to unintended information leakage.
Re:So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?
by gte910h on Thursday June 30, 2011 @05:05PM
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No, "were" would only be used if you were supposing a condition different than reality. When used in the first person, it's the past subjunctive. So a valid sentence with "were" might be:
"If she were a man."
As the writer is in informal in the judgement of the commenter, the commenter therefore should use "was".
Re:So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?
by walterr on Thursday June 30, 2011 @07:52PM
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But the wished-for condition is exactly that, or else it wouldn't have to be wished for. Yes, the writer is informal -- but the condition wished for is "not so informal".
I also find it funny that people were using Facebook's wall to distribute Google+ invites to their friends. And I always thought that seeding a social network was hard :-p
Is that true? I was under the impression that the invites were not guaranteed and there was some sort of rate limit on the number of invites that were allowed to create Google+ accounts. I think your invitees can retry after sometime.
I've described it further here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333
Or more likely I'll just stop playing with it.
You can say "I wish she was not so informal", but that's a perfectly reasonable use of the word.
Invite dates to 1649 and invitation dates to the 15th century. (m-w.com)
Surely it should be "I wish she were not so informal"?
"If she were a man."
As the writer is in informal in the judgement of the commenter, the commenter therefore should use "was".