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Ability to hide community reviews/average star rating
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olav_greyMay 8, 2025
One of the big draws to TSG for me was not having random peoples opinions constantly in my face when I opened the app. This might be a really niche problem, but for me if I look up a book, and see it has 3 stars out of 5 I get bummed out, and just go in expecting a bad time.
I'd much rather be able to hide community reviews, the average star rating ect. and be able to form my own opinion.
I could quickly find the book add it and leave, but sometimes physical books seem to hide away their blerp, and looking online, or TSG is the best way to find out what the book is about, but I have to see review rating.
So just a way to hide that would be lovely... as niche as it is.
Comments
Having the star rating as low down on the book page as we do — though I guess it's higher and more prominent now with the redesign — is our middle ground between allowing people to avoid it and use it as a tool to select books. Just as some people say they want the star ratings on the list view, which we would never offer unless it was a configuration option, I do see a world where we completely hide ratings in the app for others!
Note: I edited the post title slightly for clarity.