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It's the same with IMDB, isn't it? Toxic subgroups and communities 1-star bombing movies that haven't even come out yet. The wikipage on review bombing doesn't

It's the same with IMDB, isn't it? Toxic subgroups and communities 1-star bombing movies that haven't even come out yet. The wikipage on review bombing doesn't even list Goodreads but has many examples from IMDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_bomb#Films,_television_and_videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_bomb#Films,_television_... So what could Goodreads do differently? It's true that the owners do as little as possible with the site, but that also means that overall the scoring system has very little impact. Would you trust it?

seventhson 3y ago
Require reviews to show a substantial understanding of what the book was about? That means moderation which is always dangerous but probably better than the alternative.
- prepend 3y ago
  If this worked I would like it, but I think it’s impossible to automate and validate. So I only imagine an implementation being worse than nothing as mods tried to arbitrarily approve items. I think this would make people who like specific books be willing to spend time moderating and they would reject negative reviews so everything would be 5 stars.
prepend 3y ago
> So what could Goodreads do differently? Add a way to see ratings only from trusted people and friends. They do this now by bubbling up ratings from my contact. Id like an option to just show their average ratings instead of site wide. I do not trust any moderators that I don’t know. So I’d rather have them just show ratings from friends or people I’ve noted as reviewworthy. And maybe one degree from them. I think this applies to everything and I don’t trust Amazon reviews or App Store reviews, but do trust reviews from some people I know (after I’ve filtered out the “I love everything including AntMan3 and StarWars9 and Justice League” friends).
barbariangrunge 3y ago
> the owners do as little as possible with the site The owner is Amazon, isn’t it? They’re working on a full ui overhaul I think

seventhson 3y ago

Require reviews to show a substantial understanding of what the book was about? That means moderation which is always dangerous but probably better than the alternative.

prepend 3y ago
If this worked I would like it, but I think it’s impossible to automate and validate. So I only imagine an implementation being worse than nothing as mods tried to arbitrarily approve items. I think this would make people who like specific books be willing to spend time moderating and they would reject negative reviews so everything would be 5 stars.

prepend 3y ago

> So what could Goodreads do differently? Add a way to see ratings only from trusted people and friends. They do this now by bubbling up ratings from my contact. Id like an option to just show their average ratings instead of site wide. I do not trust any moderators that I don’t know. So I’d rather have them just show ratings from friends or people I’ve noted as reviewworthy. And maybe one degree from them. I think this applies to everything and I don’t trust Amazon reviews or App Store reviews, but do trust reviews from some people I know (after I’ve filtered out the “I love everything including AntMan3 and StarWars9 and Justice League” friends).

barbariangrunge 3y ago

> the owners do as little as possible with the site The owner is Amazon, isn’t it? They’re working on a full ui overhaul I think