GR algorithms?

[Sabrina]

I posted this question at the Feedback group, but only got response of "It's the GR algorithm." It's about the reviews other people write about my book (INK). I don't understand the default sort on the novel's page. It doesn't sort by date of the review (as Librarything does), or in ascending or descending order of stars given, or by any boolean logic that I can see. It's irritating to me because I check in every so often to see if people are continuing to write reviews about INK, and the newest reviews are buried and the first review is always the sole one-star review which was written months ago which is followed by random reviews, with the newest inserted somewhere in the middle. Is this just the most irrational algorithm going or do certain users do something to make their reviews "sticky"?

[Lobstergirl]

Feedback is the correct place for your question. Truly, librarians cannot help you with this. They don't have anything to do with the order of reviews.

[Deborah]

It's a secret algorithm. They don't tell us how it works.

This is just a guess, but one factor could be that he's a top reviewer. He's the only person on the top reviewers list who wrote a text review for that book.

[Stefani]

The actual algorithm is not known to anyone besides GR staff, and I doubt they are planning on sharing it publicly any time soon.

Some factors that have been suspected to influence how reviews show up....likes on that particular review and popularity of the reviewer. Apart from that, we don't know and can only suspect.

But no, the user is not doing something to sticky the review to annoy you. I read the review and frankly, it didn't put me off the book at all since it was honest and balanced and respectful so it could be much worse.

[Sabrina]

Stefani wrote: "The actual algorithm is not known to anyone besides GR staff, and I doubt they are planning on sharing it publicly any time soon.

Some factors that have been suspected to influence how reviews sho..."

Didn't say it was disrespectful, said it was weird it was always at the top of the reviews. That's all.

[Sabrina]

Deborah wrote: "It's a secret algorithm. They don't tell us how it works.

This is just a guess, but one factor could be that he's a top reviewer. He's the only person on the top reviewers list who wrote a text r..."

Of all of the reasons and non-reasons people have ventured, yours is the only one that would make sense, given that the sorts are not any other standard. Thanks!

[Deborah]

Sabrina wrote: "Deborah wrote: "It's a secret algorithm. They don't tell us how it works.

This is just a guess, but one factor could be that he's a top reviewer. He's the only person on the top reviewers list wh..."

You're welcome. I had expected it to have comments or likes. When it didn't, I just filtered by text only and looked for anything that was different.