Thread: Goodreads Ratings Then and Now
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Old 06-25-2014, 12:13 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Geralt View Post
I think you can trust Goodreads's ratings when there are 15000 ratings and the average is 4.5. You can be pretty sure that's a good book. Compared to 4.8 rating out of 50 ratings.

Same thing with amazon. If there's 1500 reviews and 4 stars, you can believe them. But if there's 5 reviews and 5 stars, there's a big chance that author has sockpuppet accounts or his mommy and her friends wrote nice things about his book
I don't know. It shows the reviews aren't by sockpuppets, but it doesn't show that it's a good book. Just that it's popular.

Examples:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...om_search=true

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...om_search=true
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