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Originally Posted by hildea
so the machine learning is looking at our to-read-piles instead of (or in addition to?) our reading history. At first glance, that seems reasonable, but I tend to be more ambitious when planning what future me should read than when deciding what current me is going to read  So I have a lot more non-fiction books and heavy-ish books in my to-read-pile than in my reading history.
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I guess I should suggest that they use reading history instead for the buddy read suggestions. Unless I'm atypical in being overly ambitious on behalf of future me... |
Disclosure: I’m StoryGraph curious, but every time I think of porting my data from GR and getting up to speed I feel tired.
That said, using wishlists for anything at all predictive can’t go well. One of my pet peeves at GR and it’s down to the users, not the site, are people’s overwhelming WTR lists. I have friends with WTR lists in the several thousands, even in the five figures, which is ridiculous. I know the GR mantra is that people use the site to their own ends and generally I’m on board, but what possible use is a wishlist of such gargantuan length? And annoying to me to the extent that when I try to compare my own books to someone else’s wishlist books are included. Clearly it should only be books that have actually been read and rated.
StoryGraph really needs to rethink this.