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Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by Retric on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:19PM (#26838618)
You can actually do validation for completely anonymous accounts. The most common version is DDOS protection where even read only websites can still benefit.

An anonymous review website could similarly rate limit how quickly reviews change, so someone spamming 1,000 reviews accomplishes little.

Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by nwienert on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:02PM (#26847011)
Actually, a decent anonymous single login you could do today roughly is basically TouchID. You’d have to implement it yourself with ML, a webcam and some client side code that hashes it.

If it worked well, I’d use it in a snap.