way to mark problematic author(s) | Requests/Ideas

I know that this may not work but just in case here's my idea. I wonder if there is a way to have a notification or some little sentence on a book/author page that note if this author has done something problematic (such as being racist, homophobic, etc). I can definitely see this possibly being an issue for some just because I guess that information is technically subjective and some people might not agree with the problematic status but maybe theres a way to have it be an objective note or something.

Comments

simonlorden

Jul 13, 2022

I think this would be a great way to encourage pile-ons against authors - so, not great at all. Maybe if it was an option on your own review page, but not directly on the book's page?

cheesepuppy

Nov 23, 2021

This is a little different, but it's on the same topic. It would be cool if we could personally mark authors/books as not wanting to be seen across the app. Similar to the x icon used in the recommendations section. I'd love to be able to hide certain authors/books and just never see than unless I specifically search for them.

For now, I'm using a tag problematic to kinda help with this.

Nadia

Nov 23, 2021

Once we give you a way to manage books and authors you've already hit the x on, we'll likely give you a way to add things straight there proactively.

lindseyinthelibrary

Aug 13, 2021

That would be interesting! I get the whole "subjectivity thing". Maybe it could be a voting system?