Goodreads Has No Incentive to be Good
Goodreads Has No Incentive to be Good
Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
This makes me pretty sad - Goodreads was awesome back in the day.
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Honestly, you can say same thing about any page, app that let users write reviews. There will always be trolls, review bombs, corporate buying reviews etc. I have bigger problems with goodreads as app itself.
I think it’s also impossible to know who actually did read a book and who didn’t. Hard to keep something like this both fair and open without strict moderation, and almost nobody wants to do that for free.
It was a different article but I remember a Goodreads librarian commenting that they were basically working for Amazon for free.
Yeah we do.
This is why I'm so conflicted about doing librarian work. Yay for putting things in order! Boo for free labor for a global behemoth.