Halifax,
READ my post above. "IF I do fault someone,". I generally try to qualify hence to modify any accusation I may make. And I wasn't making one here nor have I ever made one since I started posting.
But since you made an issue of it. Regardless of the recommended list and all of the hard work they do [which I do truly appreciate] they are a self-proclaimed watchdog site. And if you have a rating system which is bogus then why the hell have it at all. That site was better off without it then. You mean I don't have a gripe if a B book drops off the radar in a week.? Well maybe I don't. READ it again sir. "IF I fault someone."
As for forums, they are just that. I do not put much stock into what the mods or the Shrink say about books unless they say it to me someplace other than this public forum. And since I haven't asked, to date they have not done so.
Where I gain my information is from consensus opinions of posters and yes SBR.