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Originally Posted by Ravensknight
What I haven't seen is any discussion on the fact that there has been NO change in the TOS for GR members to agree to, only an announcement. And that immediately after that announcement Reviews and Shelves were deleted with no warning, no time to comply with the new guidelines, nothing.
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You must have missed the comments that stated concerns with exactly that. For example, I mentioned:
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I don't actually agree 100% with the Goodreads action and I think it is a bit much to make a pretty drastic change in policy like this that has such an immediate impact on users' personal cataloguing (a primary purpose of the site - at least for me).
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I find it quite amazing after holding a fairly obvious policy that shelves are there for the user to catalogue as he/she chooses, that this should be changed and acted upon with no real notice period. It doesn't impact me personally because I never catalogue based on my perception of an author, but I can imagine how ticked off I'd be if my shelves were wiped out by a policy change I had no chance to prepare for.
I do have some sympathy for what I think Goodreads might be trying to achieve, but very little for how they have done it.