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We received a couple comments just recently on our blog we thought deserved a mention:
What cartoon are they talking about? This one:
We have to agree with Some Guy and Anony Me. They hit the nail right on the head.
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It has come to our attention that our site has been accredited to certain authors. We want to let you know that this is false. 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.
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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 bully hangouts:
Absolute Write
Amazon Forums
Goodreads
Kindleboards
Blogs to avoid:
Be Still, My Heart
Buried By Books
Cuddlebuggery
Dear Author
Great Imaginations
Midnight Garden
Misanthropic Bibliophage
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
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STGRB is in no way affiliated with an author known as Rick Carufel. 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 contacting their employers to get them fired, harassing charities to pay his rent and cocaine dealing. We recommend our readers be wary of him.
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An update: one of the bloggers who reblogged this cartoon is now bitching because Anne Rice blocked someone named Flora Bellini from her Facebook page. Apparently, this is censorship. But…but… “if you get banned from an internet community YOUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS AREN’T BEING VIOLATED.”
Oh, and Grimlock has commented, saying she doesn’t think Anne Rice is really for LGBT rights.
Anne banned more than just Flora. She deleted and blocked Cyndy Aleo of the Dear Author mob, Kara Malinczak and Elyse Shcramm of the Cuddlebuggery mob, and Autumn Turner. They all showed up on her page and acted like perfect jerks. Cyndy, Kara, and Elyse told Anne she was flat out stupid for supporting STGRB. Athena posted links to places where all these trolls were caught misbehaving and Anne got angry that they had been disingenuous and banned them. It was great! 😀
Yes, all of the well known trolls turned up on Anne Rice’s facebook thread. Anne Rice was having none of it. She can spot a troll from a mile off. She is a real classy lady. The trolls are very organized, whenever someone speaks out against the bullying on Amazon and GR, the trolls quickly gang up and attack. They got away with this gang mentality for a long time. Their secret weapon was to attack in a pack, but thankfully everyone can see right through them now.
Have you noticed that it is always the VERY same people who turn up and attack anytime someone speaks out against the Amazon and GR bullies? They are very defensive about their right to bully.
Only the smart people block the trolls. Anne Rice, Passive Guy, STGRB, etc. They know better than to let them spew their filth on their pages.
Grimlock is a piece of work. She accused Tucker Reed of lying about her rape, now she’s accusing Anne Rice of lying about her support for LGBT rights. Whenever an author crosses her, she starts to believe them capable of anything.
Dear STRGB,
I was banned for simply stating that I had just looked into the claims made by an author on that thread of being bullied and that I had found that this author has a habit of singling out on their blog any and all genuine readers who had left one to two stars reviews.
I provided full objective evidence with links to the reviews and to the author’s blog pages.
Full screenshots of the post are still available.
Best regards
Flora
That Jenny Trout is pathetic. She jumped on the bashing Eve Thomas bandwagon, she jumped on the Hugh Howey bandwagon, and now she’s jumping on the Anne Rice bandwagon. I have never seen a woman so desperate for attention.
Yep, JT’s an idiot.
Jenny Trout is disgusting. I laughed when she linked an article from DA to Anne’s Facebook page regarding STGRB, and Anne called the article dense and gossipy. Haha! All of those drama posts on DA are gossipy.