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Originally Posted by Yapyap
Goodreads staff has maintained from the beginning that ratings are for people to use as they see fit. It's a personal cataloging site as much as a social interaction site as much as a book/review database, and everyone can use it for their personal purposes in ways they prefer - which includes rating books by whatever personal criteria one has for their own book catalog.
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But, if they see fit to not use rating for what they were meant to be used for, then they are useless. Useless ratings are not what we want.