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.
Bookwyrm ftw
LibraryThing is a good alternative to Goodreads.
@hsl Your website was reported for phishing 😅, can't trust that source.
Ouch! Which website was reported for phishing?
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.
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