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:
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:
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:
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.
Too bad there’s no way to go back and undo the destruction they caused.
Ikr, if only.
Another bully got the boot. Linda Hilton was deleted from Goodreads. Congrats, STGRB, you do a good job to make the world a better place. One bully down, more to go.