A brief thread: TIL that Amazon's rating/recommendation algorithm considers anything below a 5-star rating as "bad". 5 stars or GTFO. If you're going to ignore the nuance of your own rating system, go back to thumbs up/down. I'm an Upper-Midwestern WASP. I cannot *function* without nuance.

So please consider this when rating books, especially for indie authors. It makes me angry that every book I've rated under my carefully considered system* has just been plopped into either "good" or "bad", regardless. Any ratings of my books that weren't 5 stars (and tbh I wouldn't even give ...