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A harassment campaign on Goodreads

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270 points ilamont | 5 comments | 06 Jan 20 20:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.431s | source
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jshevek ◴[06 Jan 20 21:54 UTC] No.21973815[source]▶
It's absurd that pre-release reviews are available to the general public. This should be easy to fix, if GR cared to do so.
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1. bduerst ◴[06 Jan 20 21:58 UTC] No.21973864[source]▶
Goodreads is owned by Amazon, who is incentivized by the pre-release purchases that these reviews drive. They're not going to put a lock on pre-release reviews (nor should they) to solve a trolling/bad actor issue.
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2. Vrondi ◴[06 Jan 20 22:02 UTC] No.21973913[source]▶
This book is still in editing, though. It isn't even available as a pre-release review copy at all yet.
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3. halfcreative ◴[06 Jan 20 22:06 UTC] No.21973971[source]▶
Why shouldn't they? I think it's ridiculous to be able to review something which you have not experienced and I don't see a good reason why they should be allowed. The lockout should be until at least one person (ideally more) have experienced the fully released product.
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4. bduerst ◴[07 Jan 20 01:12 UTC] No.21975668[source]▶
I mean, this is assuming that pre-release reviews are from advance copies, not WIP.
5. bduerst ◴[07 Jan 20 01:14 UTC] No.21975679[source]▶
Authors and publishers ship pre-release advance copies to popular reviewers, as part a part of the promotion leading up to launch, like movies do with prescreenings. Goodreads is notorious for having these types of reviewers, in fact, it's one of the carrots that serial reviewers go after.