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Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by ravenstine »

sanderjd wrote: post #83
ravenstine wrote: post #72

I anything actually good anymore? - Goodreads: Broken recommendation system, meh UI, review wars - Google Search: Pointless - Reddit: Overtly user-hostile, poor UX, tiktokified - YouTube: Mainstream, ad-riddled, tiktokified - Yelp: Cluttered-UI, favors jerks, hostile to businesses - Gmail: Oh yeah we're gonna delete your emails if you don't log in after a while - Netflix: Shrinking catalogue, worse quality shows - In…

I find that grilling out with friends and family is good. Books are really good, lots of interesting stuff to learn on the non-fiction side (and I honestly think the new AI stuff is making it even easier to learn things!), still more interesting fiction that I haven't read yet than I could ever read in a lifetime, not to mention re-reading books I already love. Similar thing with movies and tv; just finished the new…

Oh yeah, 100%! Most of my enjoyment these days is offline. Been going to different bars in the city and playing bar games with people for the last 6 months and it's a lot of fun. More expensive than hanging out on web forums, but also way more fulfilling.

Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by effingwewt »

nindalf wrote: post #81
ravenstine wrote: post #72

I anything actually good anymore? - Goodreads: Broken recommendation system, meh UI, review wars - Google Search: Pointless - Reddit: Overtly user-hostile, poor UX, tiktokified - YouTube: Mainstream, ad-riddled, tiktokified - Yelp: Cluttered-UI, favors jerks, hostile to businesses - Gmail: Oh yeah we're gonna delete your emails if you don't log in after a while - Netflix: Shrinking catalogue, worse quality shows - In…

Absolutely. May I add one more? - Hacker News: filled with old ~men~ people shouting at clouds, reminiscing about how things were better in the good old days.

Yes how dare we hold society accountable for bullshit.

We should all just watch tiktok like good zombies and ignore the enshittification of the entire world.

Damn clouds! =p

Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by blueferret »

Four-book author here (will post links if requested). I used GoodReads for years, but kept running into problems with the author tools. Finally stopped when they claimed my latest book - published this year - belonged to another author!

Considering a full-on transfer over to another platform. Thanks for all the recommendations here.

Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by [deleted] »

ravenstine wrote: post #72

I anything actually good anymore? - Goodreads: Broken recommendation system, meh UI, review wars - Google Search: Pointless - Reddit: Overtly user-hostile, poor UX, tiktokified - YouTube: Mainstream, ad-riddled, tiktokified - Yelp: Cluttered-UI, favors jerks, hostile to businesses - Gmail: Oh yeah we're gonna delete your emails if you don't log in after a while - Netflix: Shrinking catalogue, worse quality shows - In…

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Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by hammock »

ravenstine wrote: post #72

I anything actually good anymore? - Goodreads: Broken recommendation system, meh UI, review wars - Google Search: Pointless - Reddit: Overtly user-hostile, poor UX, tiktokified - YouTube: Mainstream, ad-riddled, tiktokified - Yelp: Cluttered-UI, favors jerks, hostile to businesses - Gmail: Oh yeah we're gonna delete your emails if you don't log in after a while - Netflix: Shrinking catalogue, worse quality shows - In…

ChatGPT: ???

Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by hospitalJail »

andai wrote: post #53
hospitalJail wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Charles Duhigg Couldn't recommend it enough. I can make my life robotic if I want, and still be happy. Its mind boggling. (Admittedly, you have to turn it into a habit, which means like ~3 days of 'suck', but after that its automatic)

You can form a habit in 3 days? I thought the consensus was 20-30. I've done things every day for 50+ days without the habit sticking. I think I heard "habit resistance" is related to ADHD.

The pain goes away after 3 days. It becomes automatic.

But I also should clarify that this is specifically the basal ganglia that is being affected, and the basal ganglia works in a rigid way. A 'habit' isnt sticking after 50 days, you might be replacing it occasionally with something else, which is essentially breaking the habit. From the book, I can imagine a bunch of ways why this is going wrong.

Maybe you are doing something that scratches the itch that would otherwise drive the habit.

Maybe you are not doing the cue-routine-reward cycle when you do your new habit.

I feel like I'm doing a real disservice to the book because I'm summarizing ~300 pages, I'm about to hop off HN and don't want to go into further detail, and I don't even know what habit you were working on.

Don't let my terrible comment dissuade you. I also don't recommend summaries of this book, they missed too much.

Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by twosdai »

ravenstine wrote: post #72

I anything actually good anymore? - Goodreads: Broken recommendation system, meh UI, review wars - Google Search: Pointless - Reddit: Overtly user-hostile, poor UX, tiktokified - YouTube: Mainstream, ad-riddled, tiktokified - Yelp: Cluttered-UI, favors jerks, hostile to businesses - Gmail: Oh yeah we're gonna delete your emails if you don't log in after a while - Netflix: Shrinking catalogue, worse quality shows - In…

Google maps is basically the only app as I see it which is still amazing. Besides the whole tracking your entire location thing, but you can mitigate that.

Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by gwill »

twosdai wrote: post #97
ravenstine wrote: post #72

I anything actually good anymore? - Goodreads: Broken recommendation system, meh UI, review wars - Google Search: Pointless - Reddit: Overtly user-hostile, poor UX, tiktokified - YouTube: Mainstream, ad-riddled, tiktokified - Yelp: Cluttered-UI, favors jerks, hostile to businesses - Gmail: Oh yeah we're gonna delete your emails if you don't log in after a while - Netflix: Shrinking catalogue, worse quality shows - In…

Google maps is basically the only app as I see it which is still amazing. Besides the whole tracking your entire location thing, but you can mitigate that.

i hate how they worked ads into directions. i know some people find it easy to hear "turn left at the mcdonald's" but i've been fine at estimating distance and don't need to hear the name of a chain.

Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by thissitesucks__ »

TheCaptain4815 wrote: post #74

4chan /lit/ is a highly highly underrated online 'book club'. It's almost nothing like the other boards and filled with students in literature majors. Some of my favorite books ever were recommended from there, and the 'natural flow' nature of 4chan makes it more entertaining and less mob like.

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Re: Goodreads has no incentive to be good

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

stared wrote: post #52

> Few people read reviews whether it is Amazon, Yelp, or anywhere else. I do. IMHO, star ratings are close to pointless. They are deeply flawed even without spam, advertising, or moral outrage votes. And especially for goods that depend on a subjective reception - such as books. First, grading patterns are various. Many use either 1 or 5. For others, 4 is already a failing grade. Second, I don't care what the average…

I don't always read reviews from Amazon, specially if it is of good enough brand that I know of, but I definitely read book reviews and not just decide on star rating. There are so many variables that definitely can't be captured in a rating. I guess majority of people does that. Most popular books are generally rated very low in Amazon or Goodreads. I don't think star rating matter as much as a single reviewer that person care about, although I could be wrong.
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