Well, it looks like Angela finally got the boot. We just received this message from one of our blog readers:
It looks like Angela has been kicked off Goodreads. Her author profile is still up, but her friend list, shelves and blog are gone. And the Indie Angie group is without a moderator.And if this comment by Coaxial refers to her, then it wasn’t voluntary:
It’s true. If you visit her , she’s gone and it says on the bottom:
As for how CoxialCreatureAllHailGrimlock feels about it:
We had a feeling this would happen as Angela’s behavior was becoming increasingly volatile. So now, both authors and readers can feel a little bit safer on the site. Well done, GR. We hope this trend of troll-purging continues.
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All I have to say is, ROFL. I checked my shelving and yep, she’s GONE. Can you verify if her sock accounts are gone as well?
NO. She is continuing her rampage of third class terror as “ETA: soon”
One down, 8 trillion more to go. At least it’s a first step.
I guess you can’t say and do anything you want without consequences. Imagine that.
Sweet.
But if you get booted off Goodreads, could you just sign back up using a new mailing address? Or does Goodreads track the IP addresses of badly behaving users?
I think they track the IPs. But there are always ways around that. People always sneak back in.
Not sure why they’d want to, though, but that’s just me.
Yessssss!!!!!
Angela wrote Christian fiction? I’m stunned…. Seriously, I have no words.
LOL. I saw that too. I was confused and wondered if she has ever picked up a bible. I think there may be a verse in it, something about throwing stones…. Something she should probably abide by if she is a Christian.
I can’t imagine her even being a Christian. Are you sure it was the same woman?
Am I hallucinating? It seems to be back up again.
Nope. Still gone.
In that case, my computer must be possessed because when I click on the link, it shows me her blog and her friends list. If this is still happening tomorrow I’ll have to call an exorcist.
Your browser is probably pulling cached data. Try a refresh.
Just checked my shelves and I don’t see her but her sock puppet accounts are still up. If that’s what they are. Wow! I would have never guessed this. Now is this permanent?
Since she was TPTB at GR, I wonder if something larger is happening. It makes me think this is the beginning of more changes to come, changes that Amazon will make to improve GR’s reputation and make the site safer for its users.
Amazon’s cleanin’ house. Gotta luv it! 😀
Permanent.
An ISP is your internet service provider. Using another computer–if your neighbor has the same ISP (such as AOL) then your ISP’s will be the same. Using an ISP to identify someone is not a reliable way to track them. A thousand people, at any given time, can share an ISP number. Larger corperations such as AOL might have multiple server sites (and they do). A person using AOL in Alabama could come up on with an ISP number in New York. Smaller internet service providers are usually easier to track. Also, there are many, many, many ISP altering websites that you can go through that assign a person a “fake” id and keep their identity hidden and make it almost impossible to track. The upside to that is that the majority of these sites offering the free service will implant malware onto the user’s machine to glean personal data. As they say, nothing on the internet is free. Die-hards who want to conceal their origins will just buy the software to do it. Sure there are additional ways to get around that if you really want to hack someone’s ISP, but it’s not common knowledge. Basically, you can make yourself anonymous if you want to go the extra mile, but it takes some effort.
Just wondering…if they change the password, can you get round it with a password reset?
I think they should make the STGRB peeps the official GR moderator group. We should do a petition.
Ha! We wish. All Amazon would have to do is announce it and the trolls would run for the hills like the cowards they are.
Anyone send Amazon the list of user names of the trolls here? Anonymously?
We’ll try that.
I remember when the trolls started using tags on Amazon to label books under BBA and other names and Amazon quickly put an end to that. Hopefully, they will listen and do the same on GR.
WONDERFUL!!!!!
>APPLAUSE< TO STGRB!!!! You were the first to shed light on the happenings at goodreads. Thanks to you, people are starting to see the truth. Keep it up! 😀
Now maybe Angela will get the therapy she needs.
Thank you!
But in all actuality, it wasn’t just us. It’s been everyone who has been a reader and supporter of this site. We do what we can, but if it wasn’t for our readers and supporters who were out there reporting reviews and trolls to GR and Amazon (and to the police), we wouldn’t be seeing the positive effect that we are.
Good job, everyone!!!
I do hope so, because in many cases they do need professional help. I can’t even imagine what it must be like living in a place where looney is running around on the loose.
It’s true that the one thing these bullies need most is a good therapist. But apparently Looney Ann S. has been in therapy for years and lots of good that did her! I think even a lobotomy wouldn’t help Angela.
No kidding about Looney! I’m just glad I live on an entirely separate continent from her and even that isn’t far enough.
ROFLMAO!!!!
Add this news to the number of books I sold today and I’m a happy camper. 😀 It’s been a good day, indeed!
Cheers to STGRB! ::holds up beer mug::
Congrats, W&R!
Cheers, Writer & Reader! Congratulations on your book sales!
Nothing yet. Not surprising.
Yippeeeee! As a reader, I am thrilled to see she is gone. Let’s hope her s-puppets are removed too. Should be interesting to see if ETA_soon still posts. Although they swear they are not Angela.
And yet this crap goes on …
Clearly you guys are making an impact. Thank you for hanging in there.
Hey, look at all those wonderful new books to put on our want-to-read shelves! How nice of them to make it so easy for us. 😆
That shelf will be a good thing. If people are curious, they will look it up and see that you guys are doing awesome things. FORA TROLLS harass readers AND authors. They pretend to be good but in reality, they are jealous, spiteful bullies who should be sent back to high school, where they belong (although, they harassed a sixteen year old fan of mine who couldn’t believe their immaturity level). I’ve seen them go after readers, authors, and anyone who asks too many questions. Thank goodness one of their main bullies can’t use one of her accounts anymore.
Angela and Grimlock are different people. All Hail Grimlock on GR is Coaxial Creature or just Coaxial on Amazon. Her real name is Shoshana and she is a bookseller:
https://stopthegrbullies.com/2013/04/20/why-do-bullies-bully/
Hey Johnny, I checked out Shoshana’s Facebook. It says she USED to work at Barnes & Noble. I wonder if her bad attitude got her canned?!
Something strange is going on now. Angela’s author page is back, but only if you search for it in the search bar at the top of Goodreads.
If you go to your attacked (by her) book page and click on her name there, where she has shelved you, then the site can’t find her profile.
It seems her author profile has been allowed back but her nastiness has been disassociated from her author page. As if they are pretending they are two different authors/people.
Anyone know what’s going on with that?
Her author profile is there, but she’s gone.
Good! Finally she’s gone. You know, I even reported a couple of her blogs to Google yesterday, because of ‘abuse’ and ‘naming and shaming’. She has a ton of blogs that she runs, listing all sorts of authors with derogatory labels. I reported them as ‘harassment’. I hope they get booted too!
Keep going, keep fighting against them, never give up!
I reported them as well…every time they are posted
You know what I find strange? She hasn’t said a word about this in public. Not on her blog or facebook. Does she have a twitter account? Why is she so quiet all of a sudden? Wonder what happened? Could it be that someone pressed charges against her for harrassment?
That might be what happened. She was either reported to Amazon, GR, or the police. We know that Amanda disappeared because the police went after her for the death threats she made. It could be that someone did the same to Angela for either libel or harassment. It doesn’t surprise us that she’s so quiet about it. She’s finally learned that you can’t go around harassing people like that and think you’re going to get away with it.
Well, the next few weeks and months (probably not years) will be an interesting time for F&G and the turds they once served. How will F&G deal with angry dorks trying to shit on the site? Where will the losers go to crap themselves? How soon before the Minnesota police and State Department show up on Athelissa’s doorstep? What new Princess PP hat will send us into giggles?
This is what she wrote on her last BBAWhisperer post. I’m I the only one who finds this whole thing incredibly ironic? I almost feel sorry for her. This woman needs help.
You’re not alone in that.
I’m guessing she had no idea about being booted. If she did, who cares. And yes it is sad.
I don’t think she knew it either. In fact, I’m pretty sure big changes are happening at Goodreads. I’ve heard from a few people that they are looking to fill several positions within the company.
Maybe some of us should apply?
She must’ve known. She was there 24/7, shelving authors and attacking people at random. I guess she realizes there’s no point in whining about it now. The rest of them are being pretty quiet about it too.
The reason I don’t think she knew it was coming is because of her recent blog posts. I think it must have hit her pretty hard. And it can’t be that she chose to leave or else she would be talking about it. Her silence says a lot. She got banned without expecting it.
Good observation. You’re right, Athena. If she’d left, she would have said something. Every single person I know who’s left GR either announced it or talked about it online somewhere. They never stayed silent like her. The fact that she hasn’t said a word about it speaks volumes.
She will probably do a face-saving post to make people think she left on purpose.
She could but I don’t think she will for a three reasons. One, it’s been too long already. Two, it wouldn’t make sense after she wrote this post:
http://lalaindieland.blogspot.ca/2013/08/why-i-love-goodreads.html?m=1
And three, Mahala has already confirmed that she was let go:
http://38caliberreviews.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/monsters/
If she tried to publish a face-saving post now, it would be very transparent.
What amazes me is that these people think THEY are being censored. AH has been felled by some “monster” they say — as if it didn’t take too friggin long by far. They make life hell for anyone who dares presume to write a stupid book or two, and THEY are being censored? If they’re looking for the censor, they had best check out the closest mirror.
These people want to be cruel and vicious to anyone they choose, without fear of redress. They’re such cowards they can’t bear a response. Yet they see US as the problem.
Yeesh.
Lolol, I just looked at that ‘I love goodreads’ post of hers and look at what it says: “On Goodreads, where readers can safely talk with authors. After all, if I ever piss her off, she can always block me. The site allows for a friendly atmosphere, even if people like Margo don’t utilize it.”
Friendly atmosphere?????
PFFT, yeah, right … of course Angela. You go and ‘safely talk’ … Whatever rocks your boat.
The news must have caused her to crap in her ass-hat. Now she’s wearing it in the corner like a dunce cap.
LMAO! 😀
Just curious. Been following for awhile now, reading. I was one of the authors grouped with Rick when the attacks began on him. I just disengaged from GR when my books were shelved and refused to respond to any of the trolls. But I’m wondering what F&G stands for? Or do I want to know?
Freaks & Geeks. It’s her name for us. Really Christian, isn’t it?
The BBA thread on Amazon has come back to life. They’ve started attacking an author, who unfortunately responded, and it seems that Pete Morin thinks that 1861 is 200 years after 1497. Good thing these are the people making sure authors get their facts straight.
We’ll contact the author and point them in the right direction.
The resident trolls talk an awful load of old rubbish on that BBA thread on Amazon, its always the same old bitching. This week they started attacking author Jon Fisher (again) Jon ignored them, so they started on author Rick. Rick quickly became sick of listening the trolls repeating the same old tripe, so now he is ignoring them too. The trolls got bored because everyone was ignoring them, they don’t have an authors to attack. So, they tried to bait author Dougie Brimson into an argument, but he is ignoring them too. I’m sure Dougie Brimson has far more important things to do besides reading their hate filled paranoid comments.
You can clearly see how those trolls operate when you read through that BBA thread. They hurl insults at Dougie out of sheer desperation for an argument, they are begging for Dougie’s attention. If Dougie was to reply to them they would then accuse him of stalking them on their thread, they are so predictable. They always use the same old bullying tactics.
The trolls clearly have such meaningless lives.They just keep repeating the same old thing day in day out. I know that I probably seem as bad as them because I’m on here moaning about the trolls moaning, but I only post one or two comments about them a week. I wouldn’t waste anymore time on them. The trolls post their bitchy hate filled comments morning, noon and night! They seem to have nothing else in their lives…..
I would guesstimate that mega troll Anna Karenina posts at least 30 bitchy comments a day on Amazon and Goodreads. Often she posts five or six bitchy comments in a row. That is a lot of bitterness to come from one person. Then there is Angela who has whole blogs dedicated to bitching and moaning. They obviously have miserable of lives. Its funny how the Brainless Bullies Association (BBA) always turn on each other when everyone else ignores them! Hehehe!
Brainless Bullies Association – ha! Our new name for them! 😀
I liked my name too. L. Spammy
Is AH the first to be removed for bad behavior?
Nope. Amanda was another.
Lets hope the next few weeks brings on some truly needed “upgrades” at GR. There are more good people than trolls and maybe finally, they can start interacting with each other without the fear of being attacked for saying something the trolls deem “bad”.
We’re hoping this will be the case as well. Wouldn’t it be nice?
Not sure if you’ve seen this post, but it is from Mahala. I believe it is about Angela & why she was booted from GR:
http://38caliberreviews.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/monsters/
It shouldn’t amaze me that they see themselves as victims, but it does. It still amazes me.
Mahala’s post about “monsters” is the biggest hypocritical pos I’ve ever read so far! Scroll back a few pages and see the bullying posts she writes about everyone but AH. There’s your Monster.
Good point. The monster is inside of them.
That post makes about as much sense as one of Angela’s books.
If nothing else, Angela’s banning serves notice to the others over there that there IS a line that can be crossed. Angela thought she could say and do anything she pleased about anyone, and she got the door slammed in her face. She could have stopped, or at least moderated herself, at any time and chose not to. No one “silenced her voice”. She did that all by herself with her behavior.
It’s all about choices. Do you want to sit at the big table and converse with the adults? Then grow up.
Also, I’m going to take the low-road here, because after she bashed others, I was WAITING for the opportunity to bash her on her mistakes. Look at her blogpost: http://lalaindieland.blogspot.ca/2013/08/why-i-love-goodreads.html?m=1 at the bottom it says: “how my books will fair.”
FARE not fair.
Angela, take some spelling classes, please! BUSTED!
Not to worry, Anonymous. Anony Mouse wrote a hilarious comment on this, giving Angela the full definition of the two words. Check it:
https://stopthegrbullies.com/2013/08/04/the-attack-on-l-kirstein-part-2/#comment-20561
AH is blowing up her twitter account with crazy talk. She keeps mentioning that she has a mole(s) in STGRB, but yet she never reveals what info she is getting, which when you read is clearly none. Nice try, AH, blowing smoke up peoples asses.
I’ve been looking at her latest blogpost: http://bbawhisperer.blogspot.nl/2013/08/thunderpussy-vs-lame-losers.html. She’s talking about someone named Thunderpussy, a girl from the Netherlands. I think she means ‘loederkoningin’: .
I’ve seen her on a lot of Angela’s posts, as well as other snarky reviewers that are of the known group. I’m sure it’s her. Don’t know if you guys were already aware, I’m jumping on the train a bit late.
You might refer to this to find out who thunderpussy is:
http://bbawhisperer.blogspot.nl/p/about-us.html
We know who she is. Thank you, though.
Miranda is the girl that tried intimidating me on Twitter. She is definitely an offspring of AH. They share the same vulgarity. She’ll push it too far and get in trouble just like the rest of them.
If you read the whole post, Angela is referring to you as Puke. This is what I mean when I say the post is complete bullshit:
Anyway, Puke decided he would take time out of his busy schedule being a disappointment to his parents, so he could charm Thunderpussy. After all, she’s a pretty young thang who speaks several languages and he’s an old as fuck failed author who misspelled his own name once. Who doesn’t smell love match? Wait, that’s not what we smell.
What was the result of his charm offensive? You know, besides the Twitter universe laughing and pointing like when their grampa tries to act cool. Well, Thunderpussy was nice enough to offer to review any of his books. A one star review, but we suspect this is something Puke is accustomed to after his long dull nothing of a career. Even Athelissa doesn’t take his calls anymore.
I honestly think she’s losing her mind. At this point, it’s just sad.
Hrm well if she’s referring to me that’s kind of funny because she was the one that contacted me both times. Hell I didn’t even know who she was till after I looked her up on this website and found her in the bully section. Anyhow, you read her TweetShow to me. She’s a vulgar little viper.
I saw the tweets to M.T. She was quite proud of herself as well.
For those who don’t know, her name is Miranda Koryluk. Here are couple screenshots we took:
https://stopthegrbullies.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Miranda2.png
https://stopthegrbullies.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Miranda.png
Did she give herself that nick name? Who would want to call themselves that?
We generally just refer to her as “The big A”.
Maybe she earned that name? idk.
My head always hurts whenever I read her blog posts. The stuff she’s saying is complete bullshit. She’s really grabbing at straws now. I’m feeling more sorry for her by the day.
I think she’s really losing it.
Wow. I can’t believe that woman…………I pity her. I guess that’s all she has in this world – blogging and showing the world how bitter she is. Hate will consume you. It will eat you alive. Angela- You speak about being a woman of faith and doing good. Guess what- you may be watching this blog and using all of your hatred towards striking out at others, but must realize that someone higher up is watching you, and I’m sure shaking his head in sadness.
Did you all see that report on the front page of Yahoo today? The accident and the stranger who came out of nowhere to help? Angela – Do you think that woman spends her days trying to spite people? Do you think someone would walk out of a cornfield to help you because you have so much goodness in your heart? Drop all of this and use your blogging talents to help new authors succeed, or help find missing children, or something better for your career. This isn’t Mission Impossible and your GR friends aren’t doing you any favors. They don’t have anything to lose because obviously, they’re already lost.
Just as AH twists everything else, her claiming to be Christian is just another twist. It is a mockery of the faith. It is a lure to draw people in to read her writing, then a slap in the face. Her attitude leaks out strongly. She detests anything that claims to be ‘good’. She attacks it with sarcasm and hatred. She sees anyone claiming a higher moral ground or trying to be better as hypocritical. It is a way of thinking that becomes actions. Somewhere AH has been deeply hurt and she is taking it out on the world through oceans of hateful words.
Now if they could just get rid of the non-author baddies.
I thought about that, too, Peter. It made me wonder that if Angela had been a non-author, would she still have been banned from GR. The answer to that I think is no. We’ve seen non-authors get just as bad as Angela, even to the point of calling Patrick a douche, and nothing happened to them.
I don’t know this child because I don’t frequent GR anymore, but when googling her real name Miranda Koryluk you can plainly see she’s got big problems, such as the Twitter Violence Reduction unit has mentioned her…
Miranda is Angela’s rag follower… She looks 20-something and acts like she believes she’s a literary critic. Really she’s just a dumb b****.
I found this really really interesting: )
“Bijou Hunter is the pseudonym of author Angela.”
Why would she resort to a pseudonym? Is it because in destroying other people’s career, she has dug herself a grave and can no longer use the name AH?
Is AH the most hated author’s name around? I wonder.
What does her having a pseudonym have to do with anything, lots of authors have them?
I think Angela had an ulterior motive for having a pseudonym, though. And it wasn’t a good one, the motive, I mean.
Btw, love the name, Anony Wan! Hahaha!
I’m not trying to defend her or anything, but when you think about it, all authors use an ulterior motive for a pseudonym. Be it to massage their ego and be popular under two names or to try and prove to themselves that they are talented or to maintain some level of anonymity. Either way its a motive other than just telling a story.
Miranda…
Character assassination = “bloodless murder”
So, Angela was finally kicked off Goodreads. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person. I glanced at her “La la” blog recently, such an apt name for her ramblings. I only read a paragraph or two before my eyes gazed over. What a load of drivel.
Her profile photo on Amazon shows a woman in her mid fourties, but to read her blog one would assume that she was in fact a teenage boy. Very odd.
It is good to hear that Goodreads is cleaning up its act. I think STGRB has had a lot to do with bullies like Angela getting weeded out. Good job STGRB.
I have a little message for AH
:
Lol!
Cheerio! Cheerio! There you go! Cheerio!
I thought All Hail Grim was a boy, but I just recently found out that it is a woman who thinks she is an artist. Don’t believe me, check out her art work, my two month old can do a better job.
The sad thing is the statement on her Etsy that although she did a writing degree, she was advised to follow her art. The fan fiction linked on GR tells all.
You have to feel sorry for people who have no talent, yet her behavior makes it impossible.
Yep, another blog reader said much the same thing on our Why Do Bullies Bully post:
https://stopthegrbullies.com/2013/04/20/why-do-bullies-bully/#comment-14439
This is important, I forgot to mention this is my post…
The word CHRISTIAN is not a word that should even be in Angela’s vocabulary.
NADDA. NO WAY. Beyond ridiculous!
You’d better grab a dictionary Angela.
AnonPerson,
Are Miranda and Angela actually the same person? Or just two bitter people that feed off of each other?
They are two different people. However, they are well matched.
Has Christmas come early? Had Angela really been kicked off GR? Can I go celebrate now?
You may.
Hallelujah
Good work guys
GR also just kicked Barbara off after multiple complaints were lodged. Her ratings and bookshelves likewise were deleted. GR is indeed cleaning house.
I encourage all Goodreads members to lodge a formal complaint against Miranda Koryluk for malicious behavior. You can do this via the “Contact” icon at the bottom of the GR page. GR is now taking action against these trolls by kicking them off the site and vacating their ratings and bookshelves.
I suggest going after All Hail Grimlock (Coaxial Creature, Shoshana Bick) as well.
The phrase “going after” would suggest stooping to their level, but Coaxial’s fake reviews certainly need reporting. Keep in mind that if everyting is reported at once, the GR staff will be overwhelmed. They need to deal with the carpetbombing spree as a matter of priority.
The open site vandalism just proves why measures should have been taken against trolling sooner.