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Odd that "Assertiveness at Work" comes top of the RPG books list. https://bookinsider.gitlab.io/2018/12/01/top-20-books-on-rpg...

I looked into it, and it's just one user recommending it over and over: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/users/2100/sardathrion

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If you yourself were an RPG hero and you're trying to save the world and that's your job then perhaps assertiveness at work is exactly the right book for you?

Are you saying that it is a bad thing to count mentions over and over if they are all from a single user?

Maybe not a bad thing, but seems less of a strong signal of “goodness” compared to a book recommended the same number of times by different users. You might consider capping the number of times you consider recommendations for one book from a single user to something reasonable, like 3. That way you get more of a crowd consensus as to what’s really good.

I don't know what changes, if any, would stop this problem from occurring. It just jumped out as a case of a book at the top of a list that doesn't really address the topic in question. It does seem like an outlier in the data, right?

Maybe, though, there's some hidden validity to the implied idea that assertiveness is a key issue in the RPG community.

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