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It looks like GR is on a sock-puppet/carpet-bomber banning marathon these days. Right after we heard about Xox (1400+ carpet bombs) being banned from GR, we heard from another blog reader that Valentina and Cersianna Jones (pseudonym) also got the boot. If you click on the links below:
You get this:
Keep it up, GR! We love seeing bullies, carpet-bombers and socks disappear from the site’s membership in such rapid succession. Bout time!
It has come to our attention that several authors have been blamed for our site. We want to let you know that any author who is blamed for the existence of our site is innocent. As we say on our Who We Are page: we are readers, bloggers, and Goodreads members (not authors). The bullies want people to believe that we are "authors seeking revenge". This is simply not true. We are readers who wish to end the hate culture that exists on GR and Amazon.
Write Absolute Reviews is an anti-bullying site "dedicated to exposing cyber bullies and gathering support for legally curtailing their actions and terminating their influence."
Because of the tragic death of Charlotte Dawson, a petition for tougher cyber bully legislation was started and over 140K people have signed it already. If you would like join in, sign here.
if you want to petition Jeff Bezos to protect Amazon.com users and indie publishing authors from bullying and harassment by removing anonymity and requiring Identity verification for reviewing and forum participation.
A group of authors who have come together to mutually support one another and to put an end to online abuse.
Please click the following link to learn about Goodreads committing the crime of deception, violating FTC policies, by allowing corrupt data (fake ratings and reviews) to pass through their API to millions of users across the world:
Goodreads Review Fraud
Social networking sites that are common troll hangouts:
Absolute Write
Amazon Forums
Goodreads
Kindleboards
Blogs to avoid:
Be Still, My Heart
Buried By Books
Cuddlebuggery
Dear Author
Great Imaginations
Midnight Garden
My Fiction Nook
Pocketful of Books
Pretty Deadly Reviews
The Book Goggles
The Book Owl
The Book Smugglers
The Midnight Garden
The YA Kitten
.38 Caliber Reviews
Read more here.
To learn more about Goodreads' anti-bullying policy they began to enforce in September of 2013, please read this post.
Please lodge a complaint against GR's carpet bombers who are in civil protest against GR's new anti-bullying policy:
Visit our Carpet Bombers Page
If the bullies try to argue that Goodreads is a site for readers only, please reference and the quote from it below.
“We’re in the media business today. We’re in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that’s where we make our money. We sell book launch packages to authors and publishers and really help accelerate, build that early buzz that a book needs to succeed when it launches and accelerate that growth through ads on the site.”
- Otis Chandler, founder of Goodreads
To report the abuse on GR and/or Amazon to the NBC news, report it here and they will investigate.
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Toxic personalities. Watch out for these names on the Amazon fora:
Angela H. (Great Beast)
Ann S. (Looney)
Linda H. (Tansy Gold)
Ridley
STGRB is in no way affiliated with an author known as Rick. We do not condone his aggressive behavior such as hacking into private accounts to publish people's private information, convenient lying and spreading misinformation, and cocaine dealing. We recommend our readers be wary of him.
STGRB is not affiliated with an author known as Carroll Bryant, who has been banned from sites like Goodreads and ours for threatening members. We do not condone his tendency to publish
private conversations between other people or information given to him in confidence by others without getting permission first. We encourage our readers to be cautious around him and be careful what information they give him.
Note: Carroll Bryant is a pen name.
