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3.3K votes, 638 comments. something i’ve noticed on goodreads is that when a review of a book is negative, it’s really negative. out of interest, i….
- Review Bombing, Ransom Emails and Extortion
- The ‘1-Star Book Brigade’ and Marginalized Authors
- Cyberstalking Claims
- Lack of Preventative Measures
As authorRin Chupecotold TIME, Goodreads is a “good idea that slowly became unmanageable over the years due to lack of adequate moderation and general indifference.” One emerging issue is review bombing: when a coordinated group, or a few people with multiple accounts, intentionally tank a book’s aggregate rating with a flurry of one-star ratings a...
When review bombing campaigns take off on Goodreads, Stein says that authors of color are often the target. “[These authors are] speaking out about important things on social media and some people don’t like what they’re saying,” she says. “So then they go and bomb their books on Goodreads.” Chupeco, a young-adult fantasy novelist best known for th...
As the target of a years-long cyberstalking campaign, orchestrated by what he describes as“trolls on Reddit,” review bombing attacks on both Goodreads andAmazonhave become almost commonplace for author Patrick S. Tomlinson. “Over the course of a year and a half or so, this group… managed to create hundreds of sock puppet accounts so that they could...
Although Goodreads’ review bombing problem would be difficult to solve entirely, Tomlinson says that if the platform were to introduce some basic preventative measures used by its parent company Amazon, the problem could be “mostly” fixed. “On Goodreads, you don’t even need to verify your email address [when creating an account]. You can make a doz...
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Apr 14, 2013 · Is it just me, or are Goodreads reviews harsher than Amazon reviewers? Maybe it's because you can just fill in your little 1 or 2 or 3 stars in seconds. No justification needed--or encouraged. At least at Amazon it's expected that you have to write something to justify your rating, and others can vote you as unhelpful.
Dec 24, 2023 · But first, the scandal: Internet sleuths figured out that an author named Cait Corrain, whose debut novel was scheduled for 2024, had created fake accounts on Goodreads in order to...
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Sep 10, 2020 · Most stuck with it, however – not because of the platform itself, but because of its community. Writing in the Atlantic in 2012, Sarah Fay called Goodreads “Facebook with books”, and argued that “if enough contributors set the bar high with creative, funny, and smart reviews it might become a force of its own”.
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Oct 14, 2021 · After negative Goodreads reviews started to affect author Jessica Goodman's editing process, she decided to stop reading the site. Other authors have come to the same conclusion. I still remember ...
Jul 1, 2023 · Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it. A prominent author’s decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads’s...
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