[Tarana]

JSWolf, the ratings have always been sortof useless since people can use it for however they want to. I might mark a book with 1 star because it was not my genre or because I never finished it, not because it was a bad book. My review is mostly for me although others often get something out of it (according to their comments). Not exactly fair to the author, but it's how I rate books I read for my own enjoyment. On Amazon, I only rate and review books that authors or their representatives have sent me to read and I only accept those books that are in my preferred genres. Otherwise, I couldn't give an honest review (I detest general fiction, for instance).

All that said, I encourage you to give Goodreads feedback asking them to limit reviews to those books people have marked as READ. That might eliminate some of the older garbage. Those determined to be jerks will just get around that, I should think, but then no system is going to be perfect.