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You all remember our post The Many Faces of Anna Karenina, right? Well now, we have one more face to show you. She is also Sock Puppet at Play on BookLikes.
You may find these two posts by SPAP on BL and very interesting.
Is it a coincidence that these two posts are talking about the exact same thing and using the exact same wording? We think not.
So, beware next time you’re on BL. Sock Puppet at Play is AK.
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Once again, I thank you for your excellent reporting.
What’s scary is I think this lady followed me on Booklikes.
Knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have joined booklikes. No amount of being able to make my books private–to avoid harassment from these sock puppets complaining because I supported people like Fiona Freeman–makes that website worth it.
I’m completely disillusioned by book loggers.
How is choosing which petition to support over the other hypocrisy?
What boggles the mind is people supporting trout in this scenario. No matter how you cut it, stealing a book is stealing a book.
They are only able to get with this, because of the questionable content of the book. Let’s say Trout were encouraging people to pirate John Green?
Yea she would be tarred and feathered.
Away, forgot a word.
There is also the fact that there is no way of knowing of the allegations about the book is even true–maybe I’m conspiratorial, but I highly doubt it–because the book … is no longer on Amazon.
Trout is not law enforcement as well, yet acts like it. And we can’t conveniently ignore the fact that Trout was calling Fiona Free Man a racist. When her own video channel proves the fact that she’s a woman of color.
If they stuck with the plain facts of the book, it would be one thing. But people are adding and fabricating additional details about the author in “reviews”, and bringing attention to the book for reasons outside of the book’s own content.
Again, when is this stupid going to stop?
Anon, I have the book in question. I bought it before it was taken down.
Not only is there no rape, but there’s no sex. The book was clearly a working parody in the form of poetic expression. It was very metaphysical, and as such, difficult to read.
The actual contents of the book, I believe, would shock anyone going into it with the preconceived notions that Trout had instilled in them due to her own failure to read it.
Here is a screenshot of the first page: http://i.imgur.com/j16JYgI.png?1
As you can see, there is nothing remotely racist about it.
I’ll take a look, thanks.
I guess they could argue calling a black girl a werewolf is racist, but that would be a bit of a stretch. Cause you know, how diverse have werewolves been in short films and non Hollywood work? And that page isn’t remotely porn like.
Plus it’s curious she(the one that started the controversy about the author) is trying to reduce availability of information that doesn’t go through the group.
That’s usually a red flag to me.
Is Amazon getting any kind of blow back for this?
Allow me to make a few observations as to why I think this kind of reporting is important. —- Bullies, as I’ve encountered them in the Amazon Forum, are almost uniformly dishonest. Their intent — through abuse and bullying — is to mislead and manipulate customers or book buyers. One of the ways these people do this is through assuming different pseudonyms on different sites to target authors whom they have marked for abuse. —- Imagine the panic or hurt of a young author who sees herself personally attacked and gossiped about — and maligned — on four different book sites. Now imagine her relief when she discovers that, far from being attacked by four unconnected readers or posters, she is in fact being attacked by one person, a notorious bully, who is using multi identities to give a false impression of “public response.” —– Given how bullies work, how they come together in cliques to organize patterns of deception and manipulation, it is very helpful, very helpful indeed, to see their sock puppet or pseudonym identities exposed. —— Once again, I thank you for this report.
I’ll note, that it’s curious that I would not have heard of this book if they (the review bullies) didn’t get on their high horse about it.
There are some things you should just not petition about. Requesting book banning is one of those. Nobody’s livelihood or revenue is being hurt by people calling out against bully reviewers. That’s the big difference here.
Look, if there was any other profession (let’s say bike or car manufacture), these people would be sued for libel or slander if they said false things about the company.
While I have mixed feelings about anonymity (I think that amazon reviews should not be anonymous, while people that call out against the bullies should be anonymous), something needs to be done that doesn’t make these losers escape civil ramifications.
In meat-space, book banning stopped around the 1990s. Though there are still people that try to, Books-A-Million knows better than to stop stocking Harry Potter or honestly Alice In Wonderland and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
I’m talking about book banning in general, regardless of the books contents.
I think you make a very good point here — Calling out or exposing bullies does not represent an assault on anyone’s livelihood, but calling for the banning or boycotting of an author’s book or work is certainly an assault on that author’s livelihood. This can’t be emphasized enough. Responsibly shaming bullies for their unfair and unethical behavior invites people to scrutinize their tactics and their targets. But bully attacks on authors are almost always about hurting the author’s pocketbook. Indeed bullies tend to brag about their power to destroy authors. And I think they have been very unwise in a great deal of this bragging. They have put into the public record too much about their intention to inflict not only emotional distress on the author but real financial damage. And we must remember that their tactics are often thoroughly dishonest and unethical. In time their careless declarations may come to haunt them. —- And I too am thankful we live in a world where book banning does not happen, no matter who is calling for it.
We should all be sharing the screenshot of JT bragging on Twitter that she’s “known to take down authors” who she deems to be behaving badly. It’s not her job to “take down” anyone, and she’d be best to take down her ego a notch or two. If she can’t gain an audience by the merit of her work alone, she doesn’t deserve to be an author.
I think the scary thing is, especially in light of recent events, is back when I was on booklikes (was ashamed to be there, so I left) is the previous party line was about how awful Amazon was in taking down books that have erotic content.
I wouldn’t have noticed the discrepancy, except that now the party line is against erotic content and asking for Amazon’s assistance in taking down a book.
The previous books they referred to were related to spanking and other types of erotica. Again, I wouldn’t have noticed except that they are crying out against abuse in the book recently taken down from Amazon.
So this whole Amazon thing seems like a matter of pure convenience. So I’ll ask, is erotica OK OK, or is it strictly not OK?
I don’t even really think they believe their own dogma.
So who is the hypocrite here?
They all are hypocrites. They make up the “rules” as they go and expect everyone to abide by them. It really has nothing to do with erotica or any moral injustice on their part. They do these things completely for the purposes of attention. Be that publicity for the bully authors like JT or AH or LH, or any of their ilk or the bully minions that just love attention because they crave the power of instigating drama. Don’t let them fool you. Any time they start raging about being appalled and shocked about something, it’s not because they truly are–it’s because they want to stir the pot.
Yea I’ll keep this in mind, because one is publicly sharing my dms. I can email the name, but neverous to reveal it publicly.
Also sorry for errors. Tablet touch pad. li