Everything Booklikes & Leafmarks discussion

The past week I've been checking my GR page noticing new books were added to my to-read list. I didn't add these. I also noticed a book I added last year was bumped up in my feed as if I just added it recently. No one knows my log in. So who's doing this?

I'm a bit frustrated so please excuse the overuse of the word added.

Um, mollie? You do realise that your post/question is better suited for GR's Feedback group?

Nah, I'm not interested in what they have to say. I just wanted to discuss if I was the only one.

LOL!! OK, just wanted to confirm, in case you misposted. ;-)

FWIW, I've noticed a few books showing up as 'read' for me as well. And it's not even an issue of GR deleting any shelves. I know this b/c (1) haven't had any shelves deleted, and (2) the books were never shelved by me--ever. Thus, I'm thinking that GR's data migration is not migrating so well. :/

The iOS app now has recommendations. There is NO opportunity to indicate "not interested". All part of the master plan.

Yep.

I've had both books and ratings mysteriously add for me.

Like the OP, I'm so done with feedback that I left the group completely.

But, thinking it was a glitch with the database migration (and being tech support with hard habits to break), instead of just obliterating I politely let them know in feedback and said I'd leave in place until support/staff either removed for me or said was okay to go ahead and edit. Long, long time and a few bumps later got one of the non answer things they do along and told it was just me. In the meantime other threads popped up from others getting mystery two-star ratings added. I linked.

I then got told to email support (translation in my mind = shut up on the public forums). A lovely endless round of interrogations about stuff members would have no way of knowing (translation in my mind: keep me occupied until I give up) with accusations that it must be the third party api's I'd enabled -- I had linked briefly and then unlinked booklikes because did not want to sync well before they disabled booklikes api and the random ratings had appeared well after goodreads completely disabled booklikes api access.

I was able to spot the ratings mysteriously added (mostly on books that my friends had been slamming with one star ratings) because I never had or made any star ratings purposefully. If I had traveled during team challenges in the past my fat fingers on the cell phone app had made accidental ratings -- I was in the habit of sorting my books by ratings to clear any and all ratings once a week. One thing to one star a book deliberately but no author deserves because I accidentally hit something on the app.

I am absolutely positive the random ratings were made after goodreads shut down booklikes sync. And that in feedback group I was not the only one posting the bug.

Doesn't mean no one should pursue the bug via support or feedback group; just means I've given up on goodreads and will be leaving as soon as I move the last of my notes, reading updates, and backed up reviews over and finish one team challenge.

Wow! No, wait. Forget the wow. I'm not surprised.

I have also had quite a few books added to my to-read shelf. I thought it was strange as they are not books I would have added.

Ugh, now I'll have to try to check my shelves. Given that I have over 4k books marked to-read (ridiculous, I know) it's hard to tell. I have definitely had books added in the past while doing imports from one site to another, though -- sometimes even with ratings!

Miriam wrote: "Ugh, now I'll have to try to check my shelves...."

I'm lucky that I was stalking my own page or I never would've know. Sorry to hear of your inconvenience.

❀mollie❀ MrsKingsleyEdge wrote: "I'm lucky that I was stalking my own page or I never would've know. "

Probably a good idea -- I've heard of a lot of weird adding and deleting lately. A friend had a number of books she knew nothing about added with one-star ratings. I had at least one of those and I felt bad that the author might have seen it or something might have been discouraged from reading it.

It's why I'm keeping just not my recent exports, but my old ones too, not that I'd ever really be able to carefully go through each file, but at least my records over time are on my computer.

Question: Can you see these books when you sort your bookshelf by "Date Added"? In other words, do they show that they were just added to your shelves recently, or do they have some kind of phantom add date?

Sophie, no phantom date. It was listed as that same day I noticed. It was weird. I'm a date person so I like my info organized.
And now that I think of it, there were a couple times when a book I added a year ago popped up on my feed for everyone to see as if I'd just added them that day. The date were changed too, though I knew exactly when I added it to my list. I thought it was a marketing scam for that particular book (maybe the sequel was coming out or something). It upset the OCD part of me because I can't edit the date I added it. I know authors can make changes to them as well, but wouldn't that delete the book from your list? It wouldn't re-add it, would it? *sigh*