We received some disturbing news just recently from an author who emailed us to thank us for our efforts at stopping the bullies. She said:
So we went and looked on the thread and sure enough we found Jenna’s original comment:
And then soon after that, they started harassing and cyber-stalking her. Book was the first to comment after hunting down Jenna’s information:
Right afterward, Jenna learned that someone hacked her account:
Sadly, this doesn’t surprise us. We know of two previous hacking crimes committed by the bullies. First, in our post, GR Silences Authors, Part 1, we reported a case where an author’s Facebook and email account were hacked:
Another case was in our post, Bully Crime, when they tried to hack into our Bluehost account:
As we said in our post, Jenn Falls on Bullying and Critiquing, the people who do these kinds of things think it makes them cool:
These people do these things and cop these attitudes because they think it makes them “badass” or in other words, they think it makes them look cool. But it doesn’t make them look cool. It just makes them look like foolish, little children.
If you would like to see what we mean, we grabbed a couple screencaps of two trolls who migrated over to BookLikes and were celebrating that they made our BBG and BBB lists (and unlike what they think, there’s a very good reason they’re there):
We also found two baddie wannabe’s on GR who seem to believe that we just recently created our BBG list:
Sorry, you two, but you’ll never be on our list. You haven’t been around long enough to know that our BBG list was created right when we started our blog, last year in July of 2012. So you can be as bad as you want, we won’t put you on our list. BUT… we will report you to GR and Amazon if you start crossing the line.
Fair enough?
In any case, if any of you think that being a BBG, a BBB, or an AFT makes you look cool, it doesn’t. It just makes you look like an ass. Not a badass. Just an ass.
