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It will not happen unless there is a legal precedent. GR is a cataloging site. The information on it is not owned by the authors or anyone else. Quote:
Also, soon a new option will be implemented for readers to REQUEST THEIR REVIEWS TO BE FROZEN. Meaning to not allow comments. It will be done by request, but it might help with the heated topics |
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I honestly fail to see how anyone can meaningfully write a review on a book that they haven't read.
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08-23-2013, 03:32 PM | #21 | |
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they express their expectations of the book. This is mostly seen in the YA genre. But no one is really considering the rating until there are at least a 1000. I find the system to be much less bias and accurate the others. Somehow a few hundred of thousand ratings make more sense, even if there are some that can hardly be called reviews, then 30 of them but all 5 stars. I understand why the term reviews is misleading, but again, for the third time. GR allows use of the rating system to be personalized. Your rating doesn't need to mean anything to anyone but you. A lot of people rate as a way of categorizing. of course it is all again about preference. No one have to use the system to rate, review or even to register. And I am sure a lot of people avoid GR and there will be even more "nice" PR in future. It takes one to lead them all. |
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However, the whole point of Goodreads is that you are allowed to use the review and rating fields for virtually anything you want. So they don't actually have to be "meaningful", though I would expect for all most all users they actually have meaning to the writer. Finally, in this particular case, the author didn't complain about the review, she complained about getting 2-star ratings, and it's hard to argue that ratings are meaningful on any site (though I'd argue that Goodread's ratings are slightly more meaningful than the ones you'll find on Amazon). |
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You are still missing the point — Goodreads is a social media site. People are welcome to rate and review books for any purpose whatsoever, and those of us who use it quickly find the groups whose opinions we care about — no different, actually from choosing which newspaper or literary journal we'll look to for recommendations. And I'll argue that you (even if you happen to be an internationally renowned literary critic) are no more qualified to judge the quality of the books than those "rating books for utterly extraneous, stupid reasons". imo, book ratings everywhere are pretty much useless, not just on the web.
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Sorry, you misunderstand me. There's no problem at all with abandoning a book after a page if that page shows that it's trash. I was referring to reviewing a book that you hadn't so much as seen - in fact a book which hasn't even been published, if I understand this story correctly.
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There was a paper done discussing why people write bad reviews of products they haven't used. I haven't had a chance to read it yet. http://web.mit.edu/simester/Public/P...ve_Reviews.pdf
There's a blog post about the paper from the NY Times site. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0..._20130716&_r=0 |
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To the average person out there it is not at all obvious that GoodReads is a playground for children between 8 and 90 ("social media"), so those meaningless "reviews" and ratings have an impact that goes beyond just amusing the kids who use the rating feature for all kinds of purposes other than actually rating a book they have read. |
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