Archive for November 1st, 2014


JennyJen Deleted from GR

This news is a little late in coming since this happened back in August of this year, but to everyone’s great relief, megatroll JennyJen has gotten the axe from Goodreads.  You will all remember JennyJen as Carpet Bomber #5 of our Carpet Bombers series and as one of the nastier trolls who hypocritically targets and bullies others online, be it author or reader.

Here is the confirmation screenshot we got:

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And if you click on the link to her profile, you’ll see it no longer works:

Troll deletions on GR appear to be happening more and more:

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Here’s the interesting part.  Instead of realizing that it’s their behavior that’s getting them kicked, they begin to speculate and make up theories as to why this keeps happening to them:

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In our humble opinion, we think Goodreads still has a long way to go.  However, we are glad to see the trolls slowly but surely being removed from the site.  We hope this trend doesn’t just continue, but increases in speed.

Only time will tell.

From YourNewsWire.com, an interesting and informative video on internet trolls and their tactics.  Pay particular attention to the 15 troll tactics he talks about at the end.  We agree with this guy because we’ve seen this before while dealing with the GR, Booklikes and Amazon trolls.  When you see trolls in action, call them out and then ignore them.  If they try to fight with you (and they’ll try everything), hit the ignore/block/report button and move on.  Whatever you do, don’t get sucked into the black hole of troll.  As Rob says in the video, let’s put trolls in their place:

Thank you, Anon, for the tip!

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