No way to revert spam edits done by "goodreads mass editor"?

[Sammm]

Hi, because I think this issue is beyond regular Librarian's help (I'm one myself and I have no way to reverse the damage) so I posted the details at "Goodreads | Help" ([link to post],) thinking that that is the place to get direct help from the Staff, but I feel like I might be mistaken and it doesn't hurt to ask around.

The gist is that there's a lot of edits shown to be made by "goodreads mass editor", who apparently creates new pages with identical info of specific existing pages, then without the need of separating those two editions, can perform a merge to delete the page that was created first (that has all the info) but at the same time, relocate the reviews for those now-deleted page to the identical one they created. (And the edit history would also say "merged 0 reviews" when that's not actually the case.

Okay, so that's a big vague. I've provided some examples to the post above, but I'll provide more links here. This review of mine was for the now-randomly-deleted-and-merged edition "id=48470986", which was merged to "id=52924129" that was created 2 months after the review was posted, and much later than when the original page was created. I honestly don't get why this type of spam edits are happening. I can list out two other reviews of mine, but that'd just be like I'm advertising them, which isn't really the purpose of this post; the bottom line is, why does this "goodreads mass editor" have this ability at all?

Initially I thought they were only able to pull this off when it's editions no one has shelved or reviewed, after all the edit history does say "merged 0 reviews", but after realizing it's also happening to editions that I have in fact reviewed, and has more than 5 people shelving; isn't that kind of merge and deletion only performable by super-librarians or Staff? Why is this happening? And can it please be reversed? Or at least be made as some kind of priority to prevent from happening in the future? Thanks.

(Please don't tell me this isn't a big deal; when I use the GR short code [ bookcover: |page #ID], those spam edits would render what's previously correctly inputted to be useless and un-displayable, not to mention those edits are completely unnecessary in the first place.)

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