Archive for May 12th, 2014


Write Absolute Reviews Announcement

The following is an announcement we were asked to share with our readers.

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Write Absolute Reviews (W.A.R.) is looking for commentary to post, with links, demonstrating the fraudulent “advice” being circulated around AW to writers. Please see examples already in the thread: 

The aim of the WAR blog is to demonstrate not only the bullying and put a face to it, but also the outright incompetency and fraud as regards so-called writer advice. The website forums are in reality a mish-mash of wildly varying and confusing amateur advice devoid of moderators able to intelligently comment.

As part of our Carpet Bombers Series, whenever we find a carpet bomber, we report it to our readers and to GR.  Why do we do this?  Because we care about Goodreads.  We don’t want to see the site destroyed.  We’ve never wanted that.  We’ve always wanted to see the site improve and this one, this Gillian Walsh, we’re pretty sure is a sock account created to one-star books.  So we are reporting it on our blog and we are also reporting it to GR.

How do we know it’s a sock?  Check out her empty profile with no picture that has an average rating of 1.42 and a whopping 674 carpet bombs:

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Also, she’s been a member since September of 2013, the month that Goodreads announced their anti-bullying policy (coincidence? yeah, right), and she hasn’t connected with any friends yet:

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And if you go to , you’ll see that they are filled primarily with one-star carpet bombs:

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So, let’s all report this sock to Goodreads and be rid of these accounts that corrupt the database.

This just in.  

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Those who have been tormented and carpet-bombed by her can now breathe a sigh of relief. Goodreads is getting better everyday.

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