Another bully who has made her way into the book world thanks to her friend, Ginmar, has recently had one of her bully reviews pulled from Amazon. Here’s a shot we got of the review before it was pulled:
It appears that Amazon is doing the right thing and taking steps to make sure customer reviews “constructive and useful to other customers.”
So, please, whenever you see a review that is a personal attack on an author, report it immediately to Amazon. The best way to report a bully review is by calling Amazon (), or by using their or page.
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We just received a few interesting tweets of Randi Harper, the author of the book, and a friend of the author. We’re not even going to comment on it. We think Randi’s words speak for themselves.
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That book was written by a male feminist to promote women in the tech industry and to air their voices. I can’t possibly understand why anyone would willingly want to denigrate the author who wrote the book just for using his own name.
Even more strangely, she considers being blocked on Twitter as a form of harassment. Chances are if she was blocked, it was because SHE was harassing.
“Even more strangely, she considers being blocked on Twitter as a form of harassment.”
Doubly ironic considering Randi wrote an automated blockbot that allows users to block an ever-expanding list of so-called “harassers” (as defined by the eminently reasonable Randi, of course…)
Which is all the more ironic, because she created a Gamergate blockbot that automatically blocks people who are following certain people she does not like. But anyone who decides to mess with her should be very careful on Twitter. She is friends with (head of Twitter’s Safety division), and she regularly gets people suspended for criticizing her.
Unfortunately, the reason they hate Wadhwa is because he is male. Even though he has made no profit whatsoever on his advocacy of women for tech, they claim that he is “profiting” off of them. They have been attacking him for months now. A while back, Wadhwa was even attacked by a former white supremacist named Shanley, and when he pointed out that a white supremacist was attacking a man of color, Harper responded by telling Wadhwa to set himself on fire: http://archive.is/zTjb1
That’s ironic given she’s made and advertises an auto-blocking script… She has a rather illustrious past.
She runs a BlockBot. Hers basically blocks anyone who follows certain people. No other reason than that, it’s all guilt by association. So to have her find blocking as a form of harassment is very amusing. Because she prides herself on that BlockBot.
Even more entertaining is that Ms. Harper was involved in writing the GGAutoblocker bot on twitter that was meant to silence thousands of people based on who they followed.
This is par for the course for Ms. Harper. She’s an absolute loon. At least she is making a name for herself in a great many circles as a person to be avoided.
this is pretty funny considering how she wrote “anti harassment tool” that lists 10k+ people as harassers because they follow two or more people on her “harasser circle” list.
Fun fact: First revision of that list contained KFC, yes, that is kentucky fried chicken
You need to know the kind of person you’re dealing with. She’s very likely a sociopath. As far as I can tell, she spends her entire life trying to ruin people who disagree with her.
What’s really hypocritical about that is that she created a blockbot blocking over 10,000 people because she disagreed with them. I am one of those people. I was labeled a harasser even though I don’t insult anyone on twitter. When I questioned the morality and logic of such a block bot, she and her followers proceeded to mock & insult me for hours. I suffer from social anxiety disorder so that was a lot for me to handle when all I wanted was to be removed from a block bot that I never had any reason to be on in the first place. Needless to say, I’m still on it to this day.
I’ve never seen anything but abuse from Randi Harper’s twitter account. I don’t understand how she can claim to be against online bullying & abuse when she herself is more of one than anyone she’s ever pointed a finger at. I can only hope that in time, people will come to see her for what she is.
Randi Harper? Is that another alias of Ginmar? Just another chain gang bully with a lot of free time on her hands and no social life to speak of. LOL! Some people never grow up.
We’re pretty sure she’s a different person, unless Ginmar talks to herself on twitter. That could also be possible, I guess.
You guys need to stick Randi Harper’s name on your Amazon Troll list. I didn’t see her name on it earlier.
Keep up the good work, STGRB! This is really a great site. Thanks.
We’ll put it up as soon as we have it.
Oh, right, the chick also known as “Ranty Harpy”. Also known for her ties to Encyclopedia Dramatica/Weev/Gamer Gate bunch. Also a druggie, and self appointed SJW for OTHER minorities (I guess it’s ok for her to speak for other people, but not vice versa).
Drugs, body issues, insecurity, just being so-so at her identity of choice (empowered tech woman dontchaknow) apparently drive some people to desperate acts for attention and relevancy.
I’m confused honestly. Is her problem that it was a man writing it, or the fact that someone was profiting it, or a man was profiting from it? In either case, it’s practically irrelevant to the contents of the book itself.
I know lots of people on twitter like this. Twitter has very much taken the place of tumblr for hang outs for these people, that constantly flood my own feed. Godspeed to the guy writing something for feminism.
Over on the TRF, the reviewer Annie Myshkamouse says, “I guess I’m just not in to [Anne Rice]gloating that she successfully took out a bully review.”
Anne Rice is not saying she took out a bully review. She is saying diligent reporting to Amazon took it out. Also, if you don’t like ‘gloating,’ what about all your friends from that thread who gloat every time they punish a BBA (Badly Behaving Author)?
Annie Myshkamouse also says: ” If something is offensive, it should be discreetly removed, by posting it everywhere it just gives it more play time. And was the review actually bullying? Just my own thoughts of course.
Why should it be ‘discreetly removed’ when attacks on authors are very indiscreetly publicized? And yes, the review was bullying, So was stalking the author on Twitter and harassing him and rallying her friends to help in the attack. Just my own thoughts of course.
That’s right, and it wasn’t Anne who reported the review. It was someone else. They just target her because she’s the most outspoken about bully reviews.
Thank you. I posted a link on FB to your excellent article on this review, and it has proved to be one of my most effective threads supporting STGRB. The readers got it. They understood immediately the difference between a bully attack and a legitimate review. Excellent article.
This site is now being accused of running a harassment campaign against Harper by Harper.
Intolerance of her intolerance shall not be tolerated!
Randi Harper is a horrible person in general if you’ve ever read her twitter (although she frequently deletes her tweets once caught.)
She’s told a lot of people terrible things, sent hate mobs after them, even build a block bot for “harassers” on twitter and denied the appeals of reasonable people, telling them basically to buzz off and go cry about it, even though somehow she also managed to get her block list promoted by industry bigheads, essentially making it a blacklist.
All in all, avoid her and her ilk and continue to spread the horrible things she does when she’s withdrawing.
She’s now starting on Anne Rice after she linked to your blog. Check it out:
//she considers being blocked on Twitter as a form of harassment//
Welcome to the deranged world of the entitled, white western, trust fund baby Social Justice Warrior.
Randi Harper runs an auto-block ‘bot system on Twitter that censors anyone that disagrees with her perverted ideology. It has 1,000’s of people blacklisted, many for simple guilt-by-association for following, or retweeting, those that Harper deems to be enemies of her one true faith.
No, she does not think there is anything wrong about any of this.
Good job. I’m one of the people that reported the comment when someone spotted it on Twitter. I think it’s great that they removed it. The author was even nice enough to offer her a copy to read.
GamerGate has been dealing with this lunatic and her club of bullies for almost a full year now. They want to turn video games into their recruitment propaganda and have taken over the video game press. Using websites like Kotaku and Polygon they have been preaching their crap to us gamers for years and even trying to censor the medium.
You can not please them so don’t bother pandering to them. They will complain about anything and everything. The best thing you can do is mock them mercilessly while using this manufactured controversy to increase your book sales.
Randi is a known harasser. Read this thing that one of her victims wrote. http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sm8voo
Mahonmelonball is -also- a known harasser and liar though.
Surprised nobody mentioned that randi harper is promoted by twitter as part of their anti-harassment team, or that Randi is behind the establishment of block bots, ironic considering how she treats being blocked herself.
Just to let you guys know, Randi Harper is the CEO of The Online Abuse Prevention Initiative(OAPI) and partner of the Crash Override Network(CON, yes, that’ really the acronym) against online bullying and has as least one “ally” at Twitter support who bans people she(Randi) deems as offensive..
Yes, the CEO an anti-online abuse organization is the same one pictured in the above tweets/reviews harassing and bullying people and is supported by Twitter..
Let that sink in..
“I have not read your book”
“Set yourself on fire”
Not a good look for self-professed anti-harassment organization “CEO” Randi Harper.
This is all she does, year in year out, talks shit about any and everyone at one turn, yet cries foul and tries to become a professional victim for some money and fame at every chance.
Hypocrisy is one of the biggest eyeopeners for mankind.
Randi Harper has been at this for quite a while, and not only with book authors:
http://www.ship2block20.com/hidden-face-hypocrisy-randi-harper/
http://www.ship2block20.com/the-hidden-face-of-hypocrisy-randi-harper-part-2/
http://www.ship2block20.com/the-hidden-face-of-hypocrisy-randi-harper-part-3/
Regarding Ginmar, I don’t know if you know about this case/author, she was apparently following him around for the better part of several months and he was desperate:
Harper is one of the truly evil people in this world. I don’t throw that adjective around lightly either. I’ll call someone terrible, disgusting, twisted, as that often reflects the core of the individual at the time. But people can change from being terrible. I’m not so sure about evil and that’s what’s deep within Harper. She actively seeks out people to target and harass. Finds the weakest person that’s gone through emotional situations and demands her followers attack them based on falsehoods she constructs.
In the author’s case he’s successful in his voice where she failed. He’s making money on the same principals Randi claims she stands behind. This would normally mean she should be happy for him and the cause, women in technology being heard. Instead Harper’s evil bares all and she attacks him like a rabid dog using her pack of mongrels as a weapon. Its this sort of action that truly defines someone from just terrible to truly evil, a scourge upon the world.
She sounds like another lonely, lazy hick with no prospects other than “tweeting” her life away. Sitting around day and night looking for a fight online. Pathetic. For the lonely and bored bully people who stalk authors on goodreads, twitter, amazon, fb, etc., I have a suggestion for them.
“BULLIES, do something worthwhile with your lives and your time. Volunteer at your local soup kitchen, do volunteer work at your local hospital for the sick and bedridden. If you are really that worried about “women’s rights” as you pretend to be, then get your lazy butts over to the local women’s shelter and volunteer to help those people out. The women’s shelters are ALWAYS in need of other women to drive the ladies back and forth to doctor appointments, dental appointments, counseling, etc. Go volunteer at the local nursing home. If you like books that much, you can read to the elderly who can’t see anymore. Remember this: You WILL BE one of those old people one day. That is a fact that cannot be changed. Life whizzes by at light speed, so stop wasting away and get busy. You would be shocked at how rewarding it is to help those less advantaged than your selfish selves. That makes much more sense than diddling your lives away and twittering up chaos and conflicts. The only thing you’re going to accomplish is developing high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes and even worse things for your health. GO TO WORK! Exercise something besides your fingers tapping on your phones and computer keyboards. You might live longer and be happier people in the long run!”
That’s my message to all the trolls and bullies.
As someone who has also been targeted by Randi and some of her sadly deranged followers (they have threatened to rape me, throw acid in my face, put me in a woodchipper alive, etc.), I am very glad that Stop the Good Read Bullies has brought this to surface.
She is indeed a very well-connected individual, such as within the Twitter community, and abuses her “anti-bully/harassment” power to perpetrate the highest forms of bullying and harassment. I ask that you please remain vigilant and cautious with this as she will now not only target this author, but STGRB and Ms. Anne Rice for speaking out about this. (In fact, I know she’s already called out Ms. Rice as I’ve seen the tweet.)
Furthermore, as a writer myself, I’m glad that your organization exists to protect blossoming artists from threats that they may not be able to manage/handle themselves. Thank you.
You’re welcome. We’re glad it’s helping.
If someone is threatening you like that you need to report it to the FBI division of internet/cyber crime complaints. Document everything, screen shots, etc. and send it in. Those people harassing you are career criminals. Do NOT tolerate their abuse or their threats. A rape and death threat should be taken seriously. Don’t let them get away with that insanity at your expense.
As people read these stories and see the resulting backlash and harassment they generate from Harper and those like her, I hope they will become aware of the others that have been targeted. Few have the influence of a internationally respected Author.
While this example is bothersome and thankfully being addressed, please know that others have lost their livelihoods and reputations because of actions like these. Please research them, and if you can, support them. They deserve it.
Randi harper is quite literally an internet terrorist. She has stalked, harassed, and bullied hundreds if not thousands of individuals online simply for having an opinion different than her own.
Leave that kind of hyperbolic absurdity to them. Randi is mean to people online, and organizes harassment campaigns, but she isn’t a terrorist. Calm down.
Vox Day organizes harassment campaigns
but I don’t see anyone here calling him a terrorist.
We don’t support Vox Day, but we also don’t support the kind of bullying Randi and her friends do. Bullying is bullying.
Here is an article that explains well what we are about here at STGRB: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/06/03/renowned-author-calls-out-randi-harpers-amazon-trolling/
Um, no, it’s Breit Bart. Not clicking on that.
Suit yourself. I was just trying to educate you on who we are and what our purpose here is, but if you don’t want to learn, it’s your right to remain ignorant.
http://georgia.arrests.org/Arrests/Randi_Harper_6016247/
If you look up her twitter account it does not take long to find her calling people names all the time. For someone that runs something against bullying it is odd that she so easily goes to referring to people as “garbage” “idiot” “dipshits”
A Randi Harper sampler that just fell in my Twitter feed. Nothing if not repetitive and obsessive –
http://imgur.com/gallery/Wxe48Pa/
Randi posted a screenshot of a horrid message she received. The person who sent the email made a spelling mistake. So as a joke I sent the correct spelling to Randi. Again, as a joke. Not an attack. I respected Randi and her cause.
Now couple hours later she asked me why I would send her that shit and what point did it serve sending her a grammar error. She totally flipped at me! I explained it wasn’t aimed at her but the person who sent her the vile message, try to cheer me up. She continued to snap at me asking what the hell was my point and that she wasn’t snapping at me. So I walked away. Randi then sent me an tweet saying the conversation was not high priority as she got constant rape threats!
My notifications then exploded with her followers calling me a troll and her a hero! I had done nothing wrong and had left the conversation. I even sent a tweet to her saying to forget it then if it wasn’t important. Later that day she made a threat tally. How many ways people had threatened her that day and how many people had threatened her. Who the fuck does that?! Anyway, I got a slot as grammar Nazi! So I tweeted her demanding to know how correcting someone else’s grammar was an attack on her! Got no reply.
I’ve blocked Randi as I have never had so much disgust for a human being. I once admired her and even defended her on many occasions. But seeing first hand what sort of a bully she can be has totally changed my opinion of her. She will accuse anyone of being a bully, when shes the lead bully! Her little monkey followers all join in and haven’t got a clue what’s going on.
You know what really annoys me about this? I took the time, TWICE, to report this comment, explaining it had NOTHING to do with the actual content of the book and more on a personal attack on the author.
Both Amazon agents told me it was well within the rules, that this review is acceptable. At that point I didn’t know how to convey how wrong that appeared to me, as it didn’t talk about the content at all.
So what the hell did everyone say in order to get this changed? Did it take a mob? Someone with more credibility than I? The fact that review has been up there for months is ridiculous, ugh just so frustrated.
You’re raising a very good question, and I for one don’t have an answer. I can understand your being annoyed. —- What you’re describing indicates that the Amazon system of responding to complaints is not well organized and apparently depends on random employees responding to individual complaints with little time or inclination to investigate them. —- Whoever did succeed in getting this attack removed might have hit a more sympathetic employee, or the person might have spelled out in detail how the fake review violated the Amazon guidelines. Who knows? I know one person recently told me that when he reports abuse to Amazon, he actually copies and pastes the specific guidelines being violated into his email report. Maybe such a detailed report did it. Or it may have been a matter of cumulative reports. As I said, I don’t know. It’s deeply discouraging to get these emails from Amazon saying an attack is within their guidelines when clearly it is not. — I do think this: we should never be discouraged by one random Amazon employee telling us that a post or review doesn’t violate the guidelines. We should keep reporting. And for all we know your report did matter cumulatively in the long run.
Breitbart has just published one of three articles on Ms Harper’s interactions with others on Twitter. Considering that this is just one of three articles and, ironically, that she has appointed herself an online abuse prevention figurehead, she has quite the track record for bullying behaviour. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/06/29/harping-on-the-hypocrisy-and-lies-of-twitters-most-notorious-anti-abuse-activist-randi-harper-part-1/