Welcome to our new Carpet Bombers Series:
The definition of the term, Carpet Bomber, comes from our earlier post on the subject and means:
People who leave malicious one-star reviews/ratings to sabotage an author’s book.
In the next week or so, we intend on publishing all the screenshots we’ve taken of the Badly Behaving Goodreaders and their actions against Goodreads for the new anti-bullying policy that has been put into effect on the site. This action against GR is what the BBG call their Goodreads Civil Protest:
Freudslipper wasn’t the only BBG to voice his hostile opinion of the new policy. As we read through the whiny comments on , we found a few others who agreed with him.
First, there’s Nenia:
And then In2books (who has over 501 one-starred, carpet-bombed books on her shelves):
And Debbie R.
We also found a few rather interesting status updates.
One from Ginmar:
And Miranda:
And finally Skyla:
Why are we starting the Carpet Bombers Series? Because we want to show our readers the evidence we’ve found that proves that there is a substantial amount of invalid data (i.e. fake reviews/ratings) within the GR database, a database that Otis Chandler built in order to sell and make money. The GR team is currently advertising this database as a legitimate “critical mass of book reviews” through their API without putting a disclaimer on the API that states exactly what Otis says :
Otis Chandler knows very well that there is invalid data in the GR database and yet allows this data to pass through the API to MILLIONS OF USERS ACROSS THE WORLD, thus deceiving the public who will believe that these ratings/reviews were done in good faith. This is DECEPTION and is a violation of the FTC’s rules and regulations. Otis states that he doesn’t know how to prevent fake data in the database, but we all know there is one very easy solution. DELETE THESE USERS! Goodreads needs to start deleting the users who are leaving these obviously false ratings/reviews.
Or they need to put a disclaimer on their API.
Or both.
Our Carpet Bombers Series is meant to present the public with evidence of the false data so that our readers can report Goodreads to the FTC, the BBB and IC3 for their fraudulent false advertising. For information on how to do that, please read Goodreads Review Fraud.
Thank you, everyone, for your support!
