To help GR find those nasty, author-bashing shelves, we visited the books of a few authors who’ve been severely attacked on GR and compiled a list. The list is unbelievably long, but far from comprehensive. We invite all of our readers to notify GR management of these shelves so that they can be removed from the site:
http://www.goodreads.com/genres/bba
If you’ve been following the Goodreads feedback discussion regarding Kara’s big announcement about GR’s new anti-author bullying policy, then you’ve probably noticed that Amazon/GR has already whipped out the Raid and begun to clean house. And boy are they doing it fast!
If you go our BBA Listopia Voters page and click on the , you will find this:
If you click on the , you’ll find this:
Victory is sweet, isn’t it? And this is just the beginning!
STGRB isn’t just going to sit back idly and watch this all play out, either. We plan to help Goodreads find these nasty, author-bashing reviews, shelves, lists, and groups by publishing links on our site and inviting our readers to flag/report them.
We also want to thank everyone who made this change possible. As Athena says in her comment:
This positive change wouldn’t have been able to happen if it wasn’t for all the supporters of the anti-cyber bullying movement on Goodreads and elsewhere. A BIG thank you goes out to all who put themselves out there and weren’t afraid to speak out against the abuse on Goodreads and Amazon.
Good job, everyone!
Now, getting to the topic of our post, Kara’s update. If you’ve been reading the , you will have seen some of the bully comments (written by pretty much all of the people listed as bullies on our site), crying about censorship and freedom of speech all because Goodreads is no longer allowing them to abuse authors. Now, remember what we said in Jenn Falls On Bullying and Critiquing?
Jenn, if you are reading this, we want to let you know that we did not create our lists (BBG and Amazon Fora Trolls) to chastise the bullies or try to get them to change their behavior (although it would be nice) because we already know that that would be a complete waste of time. They would never listen. They believe it is their right to be as nasty as they want to others. They believe that “freedom of speech” gives them the right to stalk, libel, threaten, etc. Basically, to behave anyway they want.
So, when we said the above to Jenn, this — this discussion thread attacking Goodreads’ new anti-author bashing policy — is EXACTLY what we meant. In response to their comments, Kara posted this update to set them straight:
And so what are they doing now? Well…
They’re stomping off like children, leaving Goodreads and going to other book sites. Hilarious that they’re acting as if they’re going to be missed. What they don’t realize is that this new policy is Amazon’s way of taking out the garbage to improve its newly bought site. So, contrary to what the trolls believe, they WON’T be missed.
Good riddance, bullies!
Goodreads is finally earning the “good” in its name.
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