You all remember the bully “” as outlined by Looney, right? If not, here it is:
These are essentially the “rules” according to the Amazon Fora Trolls (also known as the Amazon Review Mafia or ARM). Oh, and btw, if you remember, Looney broke these “rules” twice, here and here.
Okay so, get this. We just recently received a link to a review where the other trolls broke the code, too. Here’s the :
In the comments that follow the review, you will notice a few familiar names. At first, Mayhem and Anna K. jump in to harass the reviewer, calling him names and reprimanding him for several “offenses” (offenses the bullies have been guilty of for years, that is, reviewing a book they haven’t fully read). Then, the trolls start accusing the reviewer of being an author until Coaxial jumps in and calls that theory into question. The whole thing is quite ridiculous, but we thought we’d include it for everyone’s amusement:
Notice the comment by Coaxial (the self-appointed grammar police): “haven read some of his work”? We about died laughing at that.
Now, do we agree with this review? No, we don’t. Those of us here at STGRB who have read Flat Out Love (i.e. Athena and Stitch) say that it is a fantastic book. In fact, it’s so good, even Jeff Bezos recommended it. However, does this guy have the right to state his opinion? Yes, he does. Although we don’t agree with the manner in which he does it, he still has a right to state his opinion without being harassed.
Have we seen the trolls harass reviewers before? Yep! You all remember Chris who left a review of Katherine Ashe’s book in Reviewer Subterfuge? Well, the trolls harassed Chris to the point where he eventually just asked Amazon to remove his account altogether. This is precisely the reason we started . To keep the trolls from harassing not just authors, but also other reviewers. It needs to stop. (If you haven’t already signed, please click the link above.)
So beware when you’re roaming the fora. The trolls are a nasty lot. For all their self-professed sainthood, they really have earned their name.
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What’s funny about this is that Jessica Park, the author of Flat-Out Love, was herself a victim of the bullies’ hatred. I can remember the ululating that went on when she was specially recommended on the Amazon homepage. Jeff Bezos himself was endorsing a BBA!
So it’s weird that they should all jump on a negative review. I wouldn’t be surprised if the reviewer had one starred the book precisely in hopes of ingratiating himself with the ARM, but that crack about spinsters backfired. It’s hard being a successful suck-up.
Yeah, I remember when she was targeted by them. It was around the same time we started our blog.
Those people make no sense at all. I mean, seriously, creature leaves some of the most unreadable, meaningless, bs reviews anyone has ever read, and (it) doesn’t read the books either. Yet they rush in to yell at somebody for leaving a bad review and not reading the book… It’s obvious these people are just out to cause trouble. Bigger question is, why would they even care to defend this author? Fangirls?
As for the review itself. I agree with them lol. There was really no need to talk about the 99 turn downs and all that shit. If you only read a small portion of the book, I don’t feel you really have the right to review it. It just becomes personal, meaningless, ramblings to amuse who, themselves?!? If they didn’t like it, simple, move on, but why make some ‘lesson to be learned’ review about it. Hell Gone With the Wind was literally, GONE WITH THE WIND. It took years of republishing, name changes, and dredging through the mud before it became the classic it is today.
Shoshana B. (the Creature) is clearly unhinged. A small, small life.
That lot are total hypocrites (Whats new? 😉 ) They get their knickers in such a knot if anyone (especially SP authors!) disagrees with a reviewer. And then they go and pull a stunt like this.
The bullies invest so much time into fighting with strangers on the internet. Its bizarre behavior. Brent B. was boasting on the Amazon forum today about how he had a 45 minute phone call *yawn* with Amazon complaining about a poster called Born Free. Recently a concerned Born Free pointed out the fact that Brent B. told a 14 year old girl to lie about her age so she could join an adult group on Goodreads. Brent B. was left red faced and furious that Born Free showed him up for the creep that he is. Brent was determined to seek revenge, so he made up a load of psycho lies about Born Free. Then Butler ran crying to Amazon with his crazy made up tell-tales.
Has Brent Butler nothing better to do with his time? Imagine spending FORTY FIVE MINUTES whining on the phone to Amazon’s customer care. I’m sure the person on the phone would have agreed to anything just to get Butler OFF THE PHONE. Hahaha!
Mega trolls Anna Karenina and Ness-a are on the BBA thread accusing EVERYONE of being sock puppets. *sigh* They are picking out random people from other threads and accusing them of being Born Free’s sock puppets. I have noticed Anna Karenina becoming crazy with paranoia recently, which is understandable as she is the most hated & the most down voted poster on the Amazon forums. Her paranoia is getting out of control. She thinks people are stalking her and she thinks everyone is a sock puppet. It is obviously starting to dawn on her that she has created countless enemies in the last few years, she is realizing that she has gone too far. Her fear is turning into crazed paranoia. She seems more unstable then ever. Of course she’d laugh it off if you said that to her. Well she would attack whoever called her paranoid, and then she’d pretend to laugh it off while chatting to herself through her multiple sock puppet accounts. – And we all know about Anna Karenina’s sock puppet accounts:
https://stopthegrbullies.com/2013/03/27/the-many-faces-of-anna-karenina/
At this stage the bullies have chased everyone off the Amazon forums and now they are left with no one but themselves to fight with. Tension is starting to build between them tonight. Nasty bully “Lover of Books” has just posted a comment on the BBA thread scolding Anna Karenina, Ness-a and Brent B. for destroying the “Free Books” thread. They keep derailing the thread and attacking all the regular posters.
They have created a right hell hole for themselves. May they wallow in it.
Oh my God! You’re right. They are getting paranoid over there. Ha! That’s funny! 😀
It’s frightening that “Anna” (Janis H.) is a teacher. The poor, poor children she teaches. If I were one of those parents and found out what Janis H. does online, I’d pull my child out of that class immediately. Someone that filled with that much hate and mental instability shouldn’t be teaching children.
Is Amazon going to shut down the forums?
This made me smile!! Some people garden as a hobby, some attack on Amazon. I’m starting to think there should be an annual award for biggest bully of the year. Too bad we can’t get photos of Jane and Looney wearing tiaras.
I would love Jeff Bezos to post a review on this book, then have the trolls attack him. Wonder how long the bullies would last on Amazon after that? Hmm… not long, I would suspect.
Has anyone seen this?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/meet%20our%20authors/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3ETKKJQSTRPGM&cdThread=Tx2MVCHWF2NKP84
Wow! He needs to file suit, immediately. That’s really bad.
Saw this, didn’t know if you had yet or not.
Wow, we haven’t seen a nest of trolls that big in a long time. It’s so interesting that the drama on GR always seems to revolve around them. And they never get it, do they?
Yeah, it’s because they’re a bunch of hateful little b****s. That’s all that really needs to be said. Furthermore, the hypocrisy of these people astounds me. They can harass this reviewer on Amazon for stating his opinion, but when it happens to them, oh no, it’s a crime.
SO hypocritical!
Just another reminder why nobody should use that shitty website. Don’t invest into Goodreads. Don’t make an account. Let that ship sink back into the sewer from which it came.
Somebody needs to update Goodreads Wiki page about the RPG with minors that was exposed forcing Goodreads to update their guidelines.
That’s a good idea.