How To Fix Goodreads

Last week, a nauseating scandal hit the book world. Basically, a white author created fake accounts on Goodreads, and used them to leave a slew of one-star ratings on books by debut authors of color whom she thought of as her competition. (You can read all the revolting details here.)

I find this utterly depressing — not just because of the amount of work that went into being racist and destructive, but also because it's the ultimate of expression of this idea that authors are always in competi...