Goodreads has a 'review bombing' problem — and wants its users to help solve it
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Jim Zarroli
Amazon-owned Goodreads makes little effort to verify users, and critics say this enables a practice known as review-bombing, in which a book is flooded with negative reviews, often from fake accounts, in an effort to bring down a its rating, sometimes for reasons having nothing to do with the book's contents. (NPR)
