I must not be big enough for Amazon to care because they've never put up a fuss about my reviews on YA or fantasy novels. I'm the #1 reviewer on several YA novels, including the first THE SELECTION novel, which is pretty big, and Amazon doesn't care that I have a YA novel of my own.
As for people not caring about negative reviews (whatever "bad" means, I'm addressing ones that give low ratings), well, I look at that negative review I mentioned above where I was the only coherent negative review in the bunch. 57 people thought that review was helpful. The next most helpful review (5 stars) was 7 people. People clearly do care.
Now, if "bad" means a single line or a paragraph of ranting or gushing, then, yes, I agree that few people care about those.
Sadly, on Goodreads, far too many people rate up reviews that are simply GIFs gushing about a book that's not even out yet. It's pretty annoying if you want to actually find a real review for a later book by a popular author or in a popular series.
As for people not caring about negative reviews (whatever "bad" means, I'm addressing ones that give low ratings), well, I look at that negative review I mentioned above where I was the only coherent negative review in the bunch. 57 people thought that review was helpful. The next most helpful review (5 stars) was 7 people. People clearly do care.
Now, if "bad" means a single line or a paragraph of ranting or gushing, then, yes, I agree that few people care about those.
Sadly, on Goodreads, far too many people rate up reviews that are simply GIFs gushing about a book that's not even out yet. It's pretty annoying if you want to actually find a real review for a later book by a popular author or in a popular series.
I have chosen not to review books because they didn't have many ratings, and mine would have been a negative review. Usually if this is case, the author approached me personally anyway, so I also feel a little pressure from the personal connection, but I'm also aware that without the personal connection I wouldn't have picked up the book, so my non-rating is a wash.The only time I wouldn't give the very low rating is if it's some tiny deal that looks like someone's big dream, such as if the only other review is from their mom or something. I wouldn't feel good about that so probably just wouldn't rate/review it at all.