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A harassment campaign on Goodreads

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270 points ilamont | 1 comments | 06 Jan 20 20:20 UTC | HN request time: 1.457s | source
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jasonpbecker ◴[06 Jan 20 21:19 UTC] No.21973446[source]▶
Goodreads is desperately in need of a strong competitor.
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bryanrasmussen ◴[06 Jan 20 21:21 UTC] No.21973472[source]▶
Aside from the spoofing issues what are the main drawbacks and benefits of GoodReads from your perspective - what's the worst of times, what's the best of times?
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xioxox ◴[06 Jan 20 22:03 UTC] No.21973926[source]▶
The ratings are useless - any author with a devoted following gets endless 5 star reviews and YA books are stuffed with 5 star reviews. The website is clunky beyond belief and never seems to get improvements. The recommendation engine is terrible. The search facilities are weak and inconsistent. It could be so much better, but it never improves.
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1. lkbm ◴[06 Jan 20 22:45 UTC] No.21974337[source]▶
One thing I've noticed with the recommendation engine is that it doesn't recognize when its data set is too small. There are quite a few books where I look at the "Readers also enjoyed" list and can identify it as simply a list of other books I and one of my siblings read recently.

For example: https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/1836622-dandelion-cap...

It's a book that my brother and I recently re-read, and the recommendations are...four other books that I and my brother read recently. Granted, the majority are the same genre, but two aren't. They're just...books we both recently gave 4 stars.