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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I just went to Goodreads to have a look at the ratings for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Many many people have rated it before having even read it. So the rating it has is worthless. It's mostly rated by people who have rated it before reading it.
Goodreads needs to make it so you cannot rate a book unless you've either marked it as read when it's before the release date (in case you have an advanced copy) or marked it as having read it after the release date. This allowing people to rate books that they have not read is wrong. It means that the ratings on new books is garbage. Goodreads staff don't give a damn about the reliability of the ratings.
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That is, of course, the issue with crowd sourcing such things. You are going to have a percentage of ratings that are bogus. Plus you get a lot of people who use the anonymous nature of the internet to vent their spleen. Generally, I try reading some of the reviews and see what people actually say.