It has come to our attention that some of our readers are wondering why we haven’t posted much in the last few weeks.  The reason is because now that Goodreads management has finally admitted that the site has a problem with bullying and has attempted to address this problem and correct it, our mission here at STGRB is accomplished.  The fact is that the bullies have lost their “holy” war.  So, we won’t be blogging about them anymore.  We see no need.  They have been relegated to petty insignificance by the Goodreads management team and by the vast majority of Goodreads users.  In other words, they have lost their power and they won’t be getting it back.

The only regret we have is the fact that it took so long for Goodreads to acknowledge the abuse on their site and do something about it.  It should have been corrected years ago.  Our sympathies extend to those who were victims of the abuse and had no recourse or help at the time of their attack.  If GR had been a respectable and responsible management team, they would have acted.  They didn’t.  To some, this still leaves a bitter taste in their mouths and we fully understand that.  We also understand that many have seen fake ratings and reviews appear on their books as a direct result of GR policy changes and the bullies’ reaction to it (aka, their “Civil Protest”).  We’ve done our best to give you solid evidence of this and to point you in the right direction so that this problem, too, can be addressed and solved.  We feel that at this point, only a lawsuit will force Goodreads/Amazon to crack down on this.  We wish you good luck.

We will be leaving our blog up as a record of what occurred and we welcome any of our readers to use it either to communicate with each other, to leave new information, or to publish guests posts (anonymous if necessary) when they wish to share a story or information with the STGRB community.  In other words, the blog is all yours.  Have fun!

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