So what could Goodreads do differently? It's true that the owners do as little as possible with the site, but that also means that overall the scoring system has very little impact. Would you trust it?
Add a way to see ratings only from trusted people and friends.
They do this now by bubbling up ratings from my contact. Id like an option to just show their average ratings instead of site wide.
I do not trust any moderators that I don’t know. So I’d rather have them just show ratings from friends or people I’ve noted as reviewworthy. And maybe one degree from them.
I think this applies to everything and I don’t trust Amazon reviews or App Store reviews, but do trust reviews from some people I know (after I’ve filtered out the “I love everything including AntMan3 and StarWars9 and Justice League” friends).
I think this would make people who like specific books be willing to spend time moderating and they would reject negative reviews so everything would be 5 stars.
The owner is Amazon, isn’t it? They’re working on a full ui overhaul I think