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Old 09-23-2013, 10:03 AM   #79
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS View Post
I'm saying that you don't have equivalence.

On GR reviewers are the content creators, not the authors. Reviews will be deleted, book titles won't disappear from the site.

I'll try to make an analogy, and yes, I know that it isn't perfect. Imagine that one day Amazon would decide that books which are focused on the personal lives of real people count as harassment and would proceed to remove these books on a Friday after an announcement to that effect. And imagine that this change in policy would be the result of real people harassing authors followed by books being written on that harassment.
As far as I can tell, any member of Goodreads can create content, and as the new guidelines refer to content, it affects everyone, authors included. Authors have an additional set of guidelines they are expected to follow as authors, but are free to shelve books and give reviews from what I can tell. They are not in a parallel universe.

I really can't see why including book listings in this decision is even relevant, as the reason for the change in policy has nothing to do with the existence of books or their listings on the site. I thought that would have been fairly obvious. This seems to be about member content and behaviour on the site and as such, impacts everyone.
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