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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: 0.216s | 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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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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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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1. 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.