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Originally Posted by JSWolf
and you have to have put in that you've read the book.
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Which proves nothing except that someone was willing to say s/he'd read the book.
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This mess that people make of ratings/reviews is just all wrong. How many books are still not accurate years after release?
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Years after release, early reviews and biased ratings will long have ceased to matter unless there were only early reviews, which tells the story in itself.
No matter how you try to micromanage the system at Goodreads, it's never going to work the way you want it to. It can't, even if GR had the motivation. So you can either live with its perceived flaws or go back to maintaining private lists of books and only reading reviews from the legitimate press and taking recommendations from trusted personal sources. And in fact, GR is very good at the latter.