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Does Storygraph have a better moderation story? Or does it just have fewer trolls because it’s smaller?

• selykg 3y ago
  Everything I've seen tends to be pretty good. But it's probably more due to it being smaller, at least as far as I can tell. My guess is that the people on Storygraph actually _want_ a better Goodreads and so there's less likelihood of moderation being something that needs constant utilization. It'll be interesting to see if it gets worse as it grows. I will say that I don't tend to read many reviews of books these days. I just don't find reviews of anything (including outside of books) to be worthwhile anymore. Take books as the example here, most online book platforms give you a free preview chapter or two. If a book is interesting to me I'll give the preview a read before I purchase (digital or physical). If it's not catching my attention I just move on. There are more books that I want to read than I will ever remotely be able to read before I die (thanks Four Thousand Weeks...) so I really just don't hesitate to drop something that really isn't banging in my head that I have to read it. Same goes for video games, I'll go watch one of those let's plays on YouTube and if it looks interesting after 20 minutes of game play I'll purchase. Reviews are just so easily gamed anymore and finding the good out there is super hard. That's all to say, I don't read many reviews on Storygraph.