Because the bullies are so obsessed with our site, they monitor it 24/7 and they’ve started on Amazon dedicated to it.
Gosh, we’re so flattered!
If you visit , you’ll see them plotting, calculating, and formulating plans within plans within plans about how they’re going to bring about our demise:
Note: Alison Black is a sock account, btw, and we pretty sure we know who’s sock it is.
Anyhow, you’ll see them making claims about how horrible we are — how we bully them, call them names, tell lies about them, kick puppies, steal from children, beat the elderly and so on and so on, blah, blah, blah — starting whatever rumor they can think of next. But the rumor they started today was so hysterically funny, we had to share it with you.
Okay so… a little background about what happened. The other day, one of our members was in our Google dashboard, checking the site stats. Because she had a dodgy wireless mouse, she accidentally clicked the link that deleted our site’s url from the Google index without knowing it. We didn’t know it had happened until today when we started receiving messages from our blog readers, telling us they couldn’t find our site because it wasn’t appearing in the Google search engine (btw, everyone, it’s easy to bookmark a website in your browser, there is usually an icon for that in the url toolbar). When we heard about this, we checked Google webmaster and sure enough, the url was gone. So, we fixed it and within a couple hours, our site was searchable again.
So, how did the bullies react?
Well, they went into a crazed frenzy with cries of “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! STGRB blocked by Google!” And we just sat back with our popcorn, or for some of us, our glasses of wine, and laughed and laughed and laughed.
It all :
And then what happened? Well…
And then…
They took it to BookLikes and blogged and reblogged:
And then…
Onto Goodreads:
And finally…
*drumroll*
is where they found out our site was back and realized that they had duped themselves into believing their own ridiculous rumor:
Hilarious!!!
So… why are we telling you about all this? Simple. Because we want to show you how quickly (and easily) these bullies can start a rumor, believe their own lie, and then spread it around the internet within minutes, preaching it as if it were a fact.
Pretty amazing, isn’t it?
And this isn’t the first time they’ve made complete fools of themselves. They did this when we changed hosting companies and also when our site was down one weekend last winter (for an hour in the middle of the night!) when our hosting company was in the middle of a server maintenance. In fact, they do this kind of thing whenever we do anything like cough or sneeze. It’s rather amusing.
We’d like to claim that we set this whole thing up as a joke, but alas, we did not. It was an honest mistake on our part, but after much reflection over it, we’ve come to the conclusion that the bullies’ lives are so miserable (hence the source of their need to hurt other people), we can honestly say we actually felt good about giving them just a little bit of happiness today…
Even if it was short-lived.
See, bullies, we can be nice.
