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Originally Posted by crdf
A lot of people dislike the fact that someone can rate and review a book before it is released. This has been discussed multiple times and GR will not change it, to the authors dislike.
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To some authors' dislike. Authors who understand the system would be as upset as readers if they couldn't get some good reviews from ARC readers before the publication date.
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Also talking about bullying, there has no less coming from authors.
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And that, of course, was the whole start of this issue. When the author complained (in the wrong forum anyway — if she'd complained to GR support, she'd have had her error explained in private) that she was getting 2-star reviews, the readers in that forum took it as an attempt to manipulate the system. That, in itself, is not an author bullying reviewers, but it's so very often the first step before the author starts bullying, that many GR users are getting gunshy.