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Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads by klez on Monday January 06, 2020 @05:50PM (#21974378)
How can I prove that if I borrowed it from a friend or a library?
Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads by jasondclinton on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:31PM (#21974764)
A number of copy-protection systems for mid-80's to mid-90's computer games asked that you opened the printed manual that came with the game and go to—e.g.—page 32 and type in the first word of the third paragraph. Doesn't seem that hard to automate doing that for ebooks, these days. After all, Goodreads is owned by Amazon so they have the corpus. Just use chapters instead of pages; that will work across all formats.
Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads by sarah180 on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:59PM (#21975028)
I'm not sure that would help with organized brigading campaigns like this. In the Internet age, one person with the book could supply answers to these questions for hundreds of people posting fake reviews with only a nominal investment of time.
Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads by djrogers on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:17PM (#21975184)
If each prompt were unique (and given the number of pages and words in a book, they could be) then no - it wouldn't be a nominal investment of time to answer all of them.
Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads by _carl_jung on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:56AM (#21979126)
You have to answer a quiz