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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
I agree with Atunah. I don't review because I like reading, not writing, always have been like that. And ratings are important, because they don't usually show the real opinion if the number of votes is high enough. And I've found friends at goodreads too, people I trust their opinion because I've had the same opinion a lot of times. That's more important than a glowing review from a person I don't know (it has always been like this for me).
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And there is NOTHING wrong with any of that. I merely stated it as changing behavior from readers. The part that bothers me is that Amazon now penalizes us with lower visibility if we don't get reviews on a regular basis. They probably do this because THEY want to stay relevant in the review world. They own GR so they see that people are more inclined to leave just a rating. The problem is that by pressuring authors to continue to get reviews, it just keeps the cycle of fake reviews going. Both GR and Amazon have admitted there are benefits to authors getting more than 100 reviews. More pressure for fakes.
Ad sites that require 5, 10 and even 100 reviews before accepting the ad also create a market for fake reviews.
When GR didn't exist, more readers tended to look for blogging review sites. Social media has changed that interaction. The sift to FB and GR and the like is just changed behavior (not worse behavior, just different).