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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
People can rate releases in advance there. People have explained why they do this as usually excitement for release (????) and Goodreads allows them to. Always found it silly
However, I disagree with Amazon's restriction to not allow ratings before a book is published. ARC's exist and I think people who have read these should be able to rate and review.
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There is a problem with rating an ARC. If the person rating the ARC gives it say 2 stars because they didn't like the ending and the ending on the release version was changed then the ARC rating is irrelevant and should not be there as it doesn't pertain to the release version. Could go the same way, the reader likes the ARC, but again, the release is different enough to make the ARC irrelevant.
I do agree that silly comments and star ratings should not be allowed. And ARC reviews/ratings should be allowed but with a different average star rating shown.