We just received this screenshot from a site visitor who wanted to show us a strange PM from Miranda (you’ll know Miranda from our BBG page):

MirandasRequest

There are few things that struck us about this message:

  1. She automatically assumes Punked Punx is a sock.
  2. She admits to being a bully.
  3. She’s putting pressure on Punked to remove an honest, favorable review.
  4. She’s informing Punked that the bullies are attacking the AUTHOR for an honest, favorable review written by someone else.  We know who Punked is and this person is not Aurora.

This kind of behavior – trying to discourage people from writing favorable reviews – is something we’ve heard about before from another site visitor:

DontUnderstand

So, do you all see the double standard here?  The bullies want to be free to bash both book and author as brutally as they want, but at the same time they want to dictate to others how their reviews should be as well.  That is, they want to give other reviewers a hard time for actually liking a book.  They want other people to delete their favorable reviews and waste their precious time reading books they’ll hate so they can rip them apart.  In other words, they want others to be like them.

I don’t know about all of you, but I have one word for this: PATHETIC!