Thread: Goodreads ratings are less than useless
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Old 08-03-2016, 06:48 PM   #78
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Is there a reason WHY people would want to give ratings to books that they have not yet read? other than they are huge fans of the author and want to skew the overall rating number up by giving 5 stars to an unread book? (or I suppose if they hate the author, they could give 1 star to try to skew the overall rating down?)

I am not a goodreads member - I just look at reviews there from time to time - so maybe there is something about the way the ratings work that I don't understand?
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