Really. Stop it with the random Events invites. If you want to test the functionality out just do it with a couple of people.
Or… and I know this is a shocking idea… target your events to people who might be interested…
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+Eoghann Irving I agree but people will learn eventually
New toys, and all…it’ll settle down in a day or two.
Public events by default invites everyone in your circles who also have you in their circles. I consider this a bug. It is not the fault of the people making events, but rather of the event notification system.
Lesson: be selective in who you allow to notify you.
“target your events to people who might be interested…”
that was kinda disturbing, Eoghann…
Well it’s certainly a flaw… but honestly how many events should really be public anyway?
+Eoghann Irving, quite a bit; especially many of the online events like for instance scheduled public hangouts and other shenanigans. Scheduling fun together with people on Google+ is sometimes necessary since people live in different parts of the worlds (thereby different time zones).
Even those shouldn’t be public in that sense +Halfdan Reschat. Events is an invitation system you only people people you’re inviting into it and you don’t generally “invite” the public at large.
This is exactly what circles are for.
+Eoghann Irving, I completely and utterly disagree. Inviting people to follow a live streaming of a Hangout On Air is one of the main features of Google+ Events, which (as far as I know) only happens publicly. It is also a great tool for a lot of different stuff — in the same as any other form of public Google+ posts are.
I guess we really do totally disagree then. +Halfdan Reschat. Invites are not the same thing as posts and Events are invites by their design. Invites inevitably involve notifications.
I honestly can’t see any situation where an Event should be sent to everyone in your circles and I’ll probably start uncircling people who do it.
+Eoghann Irving:
Vaginal Fantasy.
Google+ photo walks.
Geek of the Round.
Harto hangouts.
Etc.
(Everything taking place in a confined period of time which everyone should be allowed to be a part of.)
Reminds me of the long forgotten Huddles on the mobile app. That got tweaked so you could allow only certain circles to invite you.
+Tim Elkins, the notification setting which also applies to events has been on Google+ almost since the beginning.
+Halfdan Reschat All of those should be done in a circle. If I’m not interested, I don’t want to see it.
+Eoghann Irving, you can say the same about every single other public thing on
Google+the Internet. If you don’t want to see it, just don’t circle the people hosting it. It’s that easy. These things are already being on using public posts which announces the time the thing will start and then another post when it begins. The only change is that now it will be an event post instead of just a text post. It fills the same space in the stream and do not bother anyone who aren’t interested (just like before). It just helps people to easier get an overview of when the thing is happening.Except that with Events it’s NOT that easy.
+Eoghann Irving, what? I think it is extremely easy and there’s no problem with it (any longer, since the public notification bug has been fixed).
An event is an invite as well as a post. It’s a fundamentally different action.
An invite should only be sent to people that you genuinely believe might have an interest.
+Eoghann Irving, you have a very limited outlook on events. Last night’s Google I/O party was a great example of how events can be used as so very much more than just the usual e-invite from the nineties. Scheduled Google+ Hangouts On Air is also another immensely useful feature.
Of course my view is limited. It’s limited to what I want not what some company who want’s a cheap and easy way to promote their crap wants.
Right now I have a dozen events spamming up my Events page and my Google Calendar.
None of which I have any interest in.
+Eoghann Irving, that’s because of the “notify everyone when public”-bug which gave so very many people a negative first view of Google+ Events. Go through the events and check how many of them were limited, then you have the number of notifications you would have received if the bug wasn’t there.
I can’t see any way to tell if they were public or not. They just list who was invited.
Ah I’ve figured it out. Actually over half of them are listed as Private events…
+Eoghann Irving, it says “Private event”, “Public event”, or “ON AIR” in the top of each event.
(Also note how many events have been deleted due to people learning their lesson.)
+Eoghann Irving, for me not a single one was private (except my own test one, to see what it says in the top for private events).
Now here’s a really weird thing. Some events won’t let me say no… just Yes or maybe.
At least if I say no I can clear them off the screen and hopefully GCal.
+Eoghann Irving, you can only say “no” if you were invited to the event by request of the creator of the event. Otherwise it is just some random event you come across (or were notified about by a bug).
So I can’t delete it? Now that does suck.
+Eoghann Irving, if you weren’t invited why do you need to “delete it”? It is an open event which means that you do not need to reply in case you’re not coming.
Because it’s clogging up my Events page +Halfdan Reschat. And since I didn’t put it there, I have to assume either I was invited or something went wrong.
Either way I ought to be able to remove it from the page.
+Eoghann Irving, that is a problem — but (as seen) Google released Events before some of the bigger bugs were fixed. Hopefully we’ll see this one fixed soon.
Hopefully +Halfdan Reschat. I actually like Events a lot. I just want to be able to decide what appears there. Not other people.
Particularly when it comes to GCal which I use heavily for work and family. The last thing I need is random G+ hangout reminders popping up.
Google Calendar, Settings, General
Show events you have declined:
[_] Yes
[x] No
Automatically add invitations to my calendar:
[_] Yes
[_] Yes, but don’t send event reminders unless I have responded “Yes” or “Maybe“
[x] No, only show invitations to which I have responded
Events shared to circles should show notifications, IMO.
Events shared to public will NOT show notifications (not even in the red square)
Ah, that’s much better.
I’m fine with events showing notifications. What I’m asking is that people use some intelligence in who they invite to the event in the first place.
Don’t spam the world.
I agree — I posted something about that too.
A little netiquette required.
I have not had 1 event notification is that because nothing ever happens in scotland or am I just lucky