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Originally Posted by caleb72
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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The change in policy that came into effect is not reflected in the Review Guidelines (yet?).
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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
Do they have different rules, or additional rules? Are there different guidelines regarding how they use site functions shared among all members? ^as mentioned above. It seems the authors can be reading/reviewing members like anyone, but I could be wrong there.
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The Author Guidelines seem to make a difference between behaving as an author and behaving as a reader. In the case of groups, authors are asked to participate as a reader first. In the case of reviews it's the opposite:
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Shelve your favorite books or the ones that have inspired you and review them. Readers love seeing what their favorite authors are reading.
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
It's more like additional rules. We can review and interact just like anyone else, but we are asked by the guidelines and new popups to not leave comments on reviews about our books and to not friend everyone who has ever read our book, looked at our book, shelved it, appeared on a post near ours, etc. There was always a policy asking us not to spam, and I think they will (hopefully) enforce it better. I'm an author, but that doesn't mean I don't receive multiple "recommendations" from the author rec'ing their own book.
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But those rules are additional because of the additional situation.