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Originally Posted by Alisa
In this rating system, what do you suppose would have become of these books if the opposition had gotten involved downvoting it early? Many people would rely on ratings to find good works and likely these ratings would shift such controversial works to the bottom.
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Nope. No group of people can down vote anything. The ratings and recommendations system takes into account that different groups of people may have completely different taste and interests. If you church going Jesus fanatics vote against anti Jesus books or something, then quite simply the rating and recommendations mechanism will automatically not recommend anti Jesus books to evangelical users. The ratings system will quite easily figure out who is being part of which group. There is NO way that a large group of people try to cheat a system like Google over the course of months and years hiding their true agenda in trying to globally down vote some certain anti Jesus type of books.
Simply put, the ratings system does not display some type of global 5-star ratings on books. Instead it figures out if books are more or less likely to interest each specific users. It could for example say something like "There is a 95% chance this book will interest you" or something like that. And there might be different levels of interest that the system can provide including different topics of interest so if the reader is in the mood for some special type of book or from specific types of authors he can simply filter then again and all recommended according to that unique users taste, recorded usage behavior and favorites. It can even measure amount of time spent reading each page of each book to figure out the very specific interest levels.