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Is anyone else having a lot of “random” likes from people that are not even reading books.
Nearly always they have no “currently reading” and have a series of random likes all the same date in their profile, and sometimes a series of random ”want to reads” all the same date.
Half the notifications I had over the past 48 hours have been from these random people (at least a dozen).
— Jul 14, 2026 09:09AM
Nearly always they have no “currently reading” and have a series of random likes all the same date in their profile, and sometimes a series of random ”want to reads” all the same date.
Half the notifications I had over the past 48 hours have been from these random people (at least a dozen).
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Jul 14, 2026 11:08AM
I haven’t seen any like that yet. Sounds like fake accounts, but I’m not sure why anyone would do that!
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Lol, I'm not sure if this is the kind of account you're talking about, but I've definitely been on a spree of liking reviews and adding books to my "Want to Read" shelf lately.I mainly keep up with my "Want to Read" section rather than my "Currently Reading" section, though I do have some older books there I need to update, lol. I'll usually like multiple reviews of books I'm interested in and add them so I can come back to them when I end up at my local bookstore.
Also, my reading tends to lean toward certain genres (classics, for example), so I naturally see the same reviewers. It all kind of connects, and I end up following them since I discover recommendations I wouldn't have found otherwise, lol.
Lana wrote: "I haven’t seen any like that yet. Sounds like fake accounts, but I’m not sure why anyone would do that!"Neither do I Lana, but over the last months I have been getting more and more likes from these accounts that are never reading any books. Oh well, they are not trying to connect so I likewise do not see what they are trying to do.
If I look to see who has liked my review or update and it is one of these , I just ignore these days.
marv wrote: "Lol, I'm not sure if this is the kind of account you're talking about, but I've definitely been on a spree of liking reviews and adding books to my "Want to Read" shelf lately.I mainly keep up wi..."
Not a problem Marv, I realised your were real quite quickly. You have too many currently reading, none of these random accounts have any !
It seems to come in waves. I've had those in the past (but not anything recently, though I haven't been active on GR much, so maybe I wasn't an attractive target). Back then, they were usually from accounts that were idle for years and suddenly became active again, so I guess they hijacked inactive accounts.
Tomas wrote: "It seems to come in waves. I've had those in the past (but not anything recently, though I haven't been active on GR much, so maybe I wasn't an attractive target). Back then, they were usually from..."Exactly it Tomas. Idle for a while (maybe even a few years) and then a bunch of completely random books all added on the same day, sometimes these people have the same or similar random books. I just don't get it