Thread: When are people going to start reviewing?
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Old 07-15-2011, 10:27 AM   #70
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Originally Posted by VydorScope View Post
Right... but when you pull up book lists they often sort by rating.. so if there are 100 books with 5 star reviews, and you take that 1 book that has 1 5 star review and give it a four... then not only does it drop out of the top 100, it also goes to the bottom of the 4.5 star reviews since they sort by number of reviews often when reviews are equal.

So that means there is a MAJOR impact to your likelihood of even seeing the book, ever, just because I gave it a 4 star review. I have a hard time doing that to an author.
Reviews aren't for the authors; they're for other readers. If you honestly think it's a 4-star book, not a 5-star book, why leave it on the top of the list for other people to waste their time on? (Why not give dozens of single-review books 3-star reviews based on the covers & blurbs, and bump them off the top of the charts?)

It's not your fault that Amazon's system punishes authors who have honest readers, but refusing to be honest won't get them to fix it.
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