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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
If Goodreads' rating practices were as despised by as many users as some would have us believe, then those practices would be changed already.
So it's simply much easier for me to believe that more than enough people are OK with things the way they are.
No conspiracy. No hordes of sheep being led to their unsuspecting slaughter. Just a large enough community of happy users to make the naysayers irrelevant. I know nobody particularly likes being irrelevant, but we all have to get used to being so from time to time.
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Another issue with Goodreads s that a lot of people do want to be able to find others based on a similarity in books. There's a rather long thread that goes back a number of years. The staff reply that they are looking into it and they've been looking into it for years. That means it'll never happen even though a lot of people have requested this feature.
Goodreads don't actually listen to users all that much. Some of the rules they have in place make no sense at all. For example, covers. They say they have to get the cover from either the author's website or the publisher's website. So if the cover is of a rather low resolution and you point them to the very same image but higher resolution from someplace else, they won't use it. The only way you can use the other images is if you get to create the listing.