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Potential solve: Amazon owns Goodreads. Amazon has a way of tagging reviews with “certified purchaser,” and they could start filtering for only these reviews, r
by hammock 3y ago
Potential solve: Amazon owns Goodreads. Amazon has a way of tagging reviews with “certified purchaser,” and they could start filtering for only these reviews, rather than just flagging and boosting them (as the article says they are doing now). Of course this means you must buy the book from Amazon
Edit: don’t downvote me just because you hate this idea, haha. Obviously there are tradeoffs
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoGoodreads is much more international than Amazon, foreign users won’t realistically order from Amazon.com and might not have a local Amazon.xy site. For a time, one of the most active demographics on Goodreads was young female Iranians.
- CSMastermind 3y agoAs noted in the article they already do this.
- nerdponx 3y ago"Solution" is a fine word. And no, I don't want Goodreads to invalidate my review on the grounds that I didn't buy it on Amazon.
- jasonlotito 3y agoThe irony to make this suggestion on this article about people commenting on things they didn't read.
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoNot only might you not have purchased from Amazon and instead bought it some other way, but * Most early reviews are via ARCs (Advance Reading Copies) which you get through netgalley and similar sites, or directly from the author/publisher * It is quite likely that you're reading something (legally) without having bought it because libraries exist * Just because you bought it, doesn't mean you read it, and you might be tempted to leave a one-star review based on the fact that it shipped slowly and arrived late