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.
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And they say STGRB does all the DOXXING. Truth is I’ve never seen anything on this site that hasn’t already been public knowledge, outside of the special articles like the GR review scam. As far as information on the bullies, you are just showing information they themselves have already made public. I agree what happened to Jenna is disturbing.
Juvenile delinquents need to be incarcerated and rehabbed by professionals!
Reminds me of yesterday’s episode of Dr. Phil where the young girls go at it over the MEAN GIRL who sent the topless photo and ruined her friend’s life….in the end the doc mentions that the girl was underage and the MEAN GIRL unknowingly committed a felony! Which had no statute of limitation for PROSECUTION either… It was hysterical watching the MEAN GIRL’S face fall to the floor during the realization that the girl she had bullied now held the cards.
Mean girl bully trolls really should watch this episode, it’s available on drphil.com
You might learn something!
This is really disturbing. It’s like there’s no understanding of appropriate boundaries. Not that it’s okay to bully verbally, but to take it to websites, and Facebooks? That’s downright stalking and harrassment.
I’m so sorry that happened to Jenna. I hope she’s protected at this point. I hope she knows she has the support of people like me!
GR is doing just what one forum on MySpace did. Corral all the ranting into one thread and let them express themselves, then ignore it all. Why they think keeping the thread going is going to help their cause escapes me. It only buries their purile comments further. Presumambly a staff member is assigned or draws the short straw each day to go through the comments to see if there are any legitimate questions that warrent answering, and to note who the real troublemakers are. It’s over 100 pages now and I’m bored with trying to find anything of value there. I expect GR staff are as well and are probably skimming for spam or posts that need deleting.
They’ve lost. The party’s over. GR isn’t sucking up to authors either or they would have deleted the toxic accounts, but the policy change in light of current news stories and law changes regarding cyberbullying aren’t going to reverse. The demand for a sitewide announcement isn’t going to get a response either. Why draw attention to the ugly corner of the room when all the guilty are already present?
Funny . . . the “cool kids” in high school never amounted to anything, either.