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Originally Posted by auspex
THIS is exactly how all this crap starts. People making silly comments on subjects they don't understand.
Goodreads is a site for readers. Readers rate books however and for whatever reason they want. They don't even need to share those ratings (and perhaps it might cause fewer hurt feelings if member defaults were to not share anything, but that seems to defeat the whole purpose of a social media site). I wouldn't generally give a rating to a book I hadn't read - but I would certainly add a book like this to my "don't even think of reading" shelf. Others though, might give a rating to an unread book as a way of ranking their interest in reading it when it does become available. I only give 1-star ratings to books I haven't read — though it will always be a book I started, but couldn't finish.
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THIS is exactly why book ratings all across the web are almost always utterly useless. People rating books for utterly extraneous, stupid reasons and not for the quality of the books.