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Originally Posted by Tarana
Shari, I knew about it originally because they used several of my own reviews. Apparently, the algorithm randomly selected those reviews where a 5 star rating was given. If you changed the rating to a 3 or 4, it eventually dropped out of the advertising page. Perhaps you remember the italicized review formatting Amazon had 3 years ago? Those are the reviews that came from Goodreads. The change to the 'verified purchase' may have changed how they do things. Don't know and I don't care enough to look them up.
Anyway, later on, I discovered an opt-out setting and selected that. If you look under your Goodreads Account settings, log in, select SETTINGS and then uncheck the box next to "allow partners of Goodreads to display my reviews". Wallah...your reviews are now limited to Goodreads and will not appear on Amazon.
Cinisajoy, I don't think I've ever had a pm from an author about my rating or review. Maybe I should read more books with living authors so that I can have a more exciting goodreads email!!
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Interesting that you and Atunah have had such different experiences with your reviews on Goodreads.
I found that checkbox--I don't remember ever having seen it before. I guess most people have unchecked that box then, and that's why I'm not seeing duplicate reviews?
Shari