Thread: Goodreads Ratings Then and Now
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Old 06-23-2014, 06:47 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The problem with Goodreads is that they allow people to rate books before they are actually released and people who have not read the book can rate. So we constantly see bogus ratings base don people's perception. So do we truly have real ratings or are these bogus rating screwing up the ratings and how long will it take to get real ratings and do all of those phony ratings get changed to real ones?
It would be nice if you could only rate a book after you marked the book status as read. Of course, people will mark the book as read to put in a rating. Honestly, I never understood why people who are really excited about a pre released book feel the need to rate it. Unless you have an ARC, it makes no sense and skews the ratings.
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