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I have trouble finding new authors or good books on there to the point that I stopped trying. I only use it for reading up reviews. I was kinda shocked readin

I have trouble finding new authors or good books on there to the point that I stopped trying. I only use it for reading up reviews. I was kinda shocked reading through their top X list and finding absolute garbage, rated 8+. I wonder if they suffer from IMDB syndrome.

comboy 3y ago
GPT4 is so far the best book recommendation system I've found. It did work better back when it was slow though.
jabroni_salad 3y ago
That can be solved with better tiering and categories. I like low budget horror. I like how rookie filmmakers are capable of bringing brand new ideas out of the aether without even realizing it. I like it when a cheap actor has a single moment of greatness for no discernable reason. I'm not stupid enough to think that any of them stack up with The Greats but I still like the films and personally rate them highly. Most film nerds would probably not appreciate my toplist, but it's not my fault everyone sorts by All.
Brybry 3y ago
What I've found as a better metric of 'good' (at least for fiction) is the number of ratings, especially combined with star rating. If something has a high number of ratings it's popular enough that it's probably decent (at least if you're into that genre). Like a 4.38 rating w/ 2.7 million ratings (The Fellowship of the Ring) is a better bet compared to a 4.98 star with 150 ratings (random new book by unknown author). Also, Goodreads doesn't have a 10 point system like IMDB, right? I believe all the ratings are 0 to 5.
- me_me_me 3y ago
  I present you: Ready Player One Ernest Cline 4.23 1,099,069 ratings 99,154 reviews It joined club of handful of books that I just stopped reading and threw into trash. Yet its 4.23 as of writing! There are different tastes and likes, but that book is so poorly written and has such barebones plot... I don't know how it is popular

comboy 3y ago

GPT4 is so far the best book recommendation system I've found. It did work better back when it was slow though.

jabroni_salad 3y ago

That can be solved with better tiering and categories. I like low budget horror. I like how rookie filmmakers are capable of bringing brand new ideas out of the aether without even realizing it. I like it when a cheap actor has a single moment of greatness for no discernable reason. I'm not stupid enough to think that any of them stack up with The Greats but I still like the films and personally rate them highly. Most film nerds would probably not appreciate my toplist, but it's not my fault everyone sorts by All.

Brybry 3y ago

What I've found as a better metric of 'good' (at least for fiction) is the number of ratings, especially combined with star rating. If something has a high number of ratings it's popular enough that it's probably decent (at least if you're into that genre). Like a 4.38 rating w/ 2.7 million ratings (The Fellowship of the Ring) is a better bet compared to a 4.98 star with 150 ratings (random new book by unknown author). Also, Goodreads doesn't have a 10 point system like IMDB, right? I believe all the ratings are 0 to 5.

me_me_me 3y ago
I present you: Ready Player One Ernest Cline 4.23 1,099,069 ratings 99,154 reviews It joined club of handful of books that I just stopped reading and threw into trash. Yet its 4.23 as of writing! There are different tastes and likes, but that book is so poorly written and has such barebones plot... I don't know how it is popular