Category: Bully Hypocrisy


Scalzi Busted for Breaking his own Code of Ethics

Filed Under: Bully Hypocrisy, John Scalzi by Johnny Be Good — 2 Comments
August 9, 2015

Well, this isn’t a surprise to us.  We’ve seen so many of the bullies pull this kind of hypocritical nonsense before.  John Scalzi, an author who has attacked and berated other authors for promoting/reviewing one another’s books without disclosure, breaks his own code of ethics and does exactly that:

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Sigh.  We could have seen it coming and we’re pretty sure there are more Bullies As Authors who do the exact same thing.

This is a good lesson actually.  You will want to be wary of authors who chastise others for “BBA behavior” which is a fabricated term made up by the bullies and their “code of ethics”.  Authors who do this are opportunists looking to curry favor and are, the majority of the time, guilty of the exact same “BBA behavior”, and usually much worse.

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Randi Harper Guest Speaker at O’Reilly Media’s OSCON

Filed Under: Bully Hypocrisy, News by Johnny Be Good — 5 Comments
July 24, 2015

You all remember our story covering Randi Harper’s bully review and her subsequent fight against Amazon for removing it, right?  Well, just recently, we received this email telling us about O’Reilly Media giving Randi the stage to talk about her “campaign against abuse and harassment.”  Yes, we’re trying not to laugh, too.  We’re posting this to get the word out so that O’Reilly Media might come to understand just who they are supporting.

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Dear blog reader, we posted the tweets you requested.  Hopefully O’Reilly Media will come to their senses.

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Jane Litte Reveals Her True Colors… As An Author!

Filed Under: Bully Hypocrisy, Bully Lies, GR Bully, GR Bully Culture by Johnny Be Good — 55 Comments
March 24, 2015

Well, well, well.  Wouldn’t you just know it.  The Godmother of the bullies, well-known for being much too free with her tongue and libeling authors and publishers alike on her blog, in fact libeling them to the point of pushing them into lawsuits against her, Jane Litte, or in real life known as Jennifer Gerrish-Lampe:

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has yet another pen name, as she reveals in her latest DA post, A Letter to the DA Readership:

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We know that many of you, as you read the words above, will hear, “Bullshit, bullshit,” going through your mind and you are exactly right to think it.  Jane’s explanation is in a word, hogwash.  First, the reason she is revealing this information is because Jaid Black, whom Jane doxxed on her blog:

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was going to go public with this information anyway, so Jane had to have the first jump and give everyone a bullshit explanation for her despicable actions.  Second, Jane wrote under a pen name for one obvious reason, because she feared retaliation from enemies: enemies she’s made from libeling people and enemies she made during #RomFail (See Why Jane Little Was Banned From RWA, in fact, just read our whole collection on Jane here.  You can read about how she defended violent readers and then attacked Nathan Bransford on Twitter and a lot more!)  Finally, Jane has been using her blog to deceitfully promote her own work WITHOUT telling readers that she was the author or one of the authors.  Notice where she says:

I wanted any success I had with the fiction to be built on the merits of the work, not on the blogging platform. I had a couple of awkward moments where I had to keep one of my books from being reviewed on Dear Author, but somehow I managed to keep them completely separate.

This is a blatant lie and it’s easily provable.  For example, here, on a blog post written by her, she promotes her book, Unspoken:

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And here, her blog is promoting her book, Last Hit:

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And again, here, her blog is promoting another one of her books, The Charlotte Chronicles:

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We’d say we’re surprised, but for someone like Jane, we’re really not.  She’s vicious and capable of resorting to anything to put forward her own interests.

Okay, so, for all the bullies out there who are celebrating Jane’s big reveal, you are probably unaware of the implications of it.  Please, read on.  We’ll enlighten you.  In fact, one of our blog readers will enlighten you.  In recent emails, this blog reader said:

I find this shocking and not surprising.  I wonder how many of the Amazon Bullies are in fact authors… who basically use their bully persona to pile on other authors. There we have malicious gossips essentially hiding the fact that they are authors as they pile on other authors from behind their pseudonyms, pretending to be “readers” protecting “readers” from authors. Can you imagine if a major author took a job reviewing books and lecturing authors for the New York Times under a pseudonym? And suddenly you discovered that Columnist X who reviewed books all the time snidely and nastily was in fact a major author hiding behind that pseudonym? When professional book reviewers write books, the books are non fiction generally and are under their real names, the names they use as “critics.” But imagine discovering that a major author was behind constant criticism of authors… The point is…. this is major. A major bully entity who is in fact an author! And the question is how many others are authors? I think STGRB has already outed some on Goodreads. But I hope the significance is played up. These bullies have, in my estimation, put themselves forward as “readers” and “non professionals” and bragged that “authors are paid but we’re not!” as they justify their malice and pettiness and dirty tricks and constant high toned attacks. And now we find out they are actually authors selling a competing product!!!! Authors pretending to be high toned amateur critics trying to protect the public from authors’ bad behavior. How bad can some one’s behavior get? It makes the entire bully bible a lie —- the entire “argument” that this is a war of readers against authors. It calls into question everything. It should be enough to discredit the bully culture and the bully cliques forever. So now we see what is really happening: a clique of lying, cheating authors has been behind this war against honest authors all along. Now we see the desperation to maintain pseudonyms on Amazon! They can’t keep peddling their lies without those pseudonyms! I say it’s time to ask outright: which of you is an author!!! Come clean now!! Enough of the lies and the dirty tricks.

AND NOW WE KNOW this is all a lie. They were authors all along, many of them. Willing to malign “authors” as they hide behind pseudonyms. That this woman would continue with her blog, given that she is an author and a successful one and promote her own work… makes her despicable. After all it is “promotion” by authors that so angers this “reader bully” population. And she has done it for her own book!!!! I think the question has to be asked now of everyone of these people: What is your real name and are you an author?

I think these people must be exposed for  what they’ve done:

1) Essentially try to convince the public that they are vigilant readers, generous with their time and love of books, who are trying to save other readers from “badly behaved authors.”

2)Try to convince the public that authors are irresponsible and childish and need to be policed by “readers.”

3) That there is war on between these “readers” and bad authors.

The headline here is “The bullies have been lying for years. They are actually authors punching down from behind pseudonyms against fellow authors! The whole idea of the vigilant reader asserting her rights is a sham!”

So all the foolishness about “big bad authors” who might hurt reviewers is a lie. They’re authors!!!!!! All the foolishness about reviewers needing pseudonyms to protect them from authors is a lie. They’re authors! In ruthlessly policing what they call “badly behaved authors,” accusing them of fake five star reviews and self promotion, they have lied, lied, lied, about the fact that they themselves are authors! And this Jane person has actually discussed her own work! The entire bully credo is a lie!

Thank you for your words.  We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

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Anne Rice Bans the Bullies

Filed Under: Anne Rice, BookLIkes Bully, Bully Attacks, Bully Hypocrisy, Bully Lies, GR Bullies by Johnny Be Good — 10 Comments
May 7, 2014

Last week, Anne Rice did something awesome!  She did what authors, readers, bloggers, etc. should all be doing.  She banned the bullies from her FB page and deleted their comments.  Why?  Because they did what they do best — tried to bully her into removing and using our Nenia Campbell blog as an example:

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Once the bullies caught wind of her post, they descended upon her like a pack of wolves in sheep’s clothing pretending to be innocent and/or disinterested third parties.  As expected, they started in with their propaganda and lies, attempting to discourage her from speaking out and from using our post to do it.  They also began leaving Anne links to all their blog posts written two years ago, condemning us for publishing public information on our website.

The list of bullies banned from Anne’s page include: Autumn Turner, Jenny Trout, Cyndy Aleo, Kara Malinczak, Elyse Schramm, Flora Bellini, KarlynP and Amanda Welling.  They were banned for being disruptive and disingenuous as well as telling lies.  We know you’ve all seen their nonsense before, but we’ll still give you a few examples of what we mean.  Just for kicks.

You all remember Autumn Turner, right?  Well, check out what she had to say to Anne regarding her post.  Notice the implied threat at the beginning, “I won’t support your books if you support them”:

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Then, Athena jumped in to set the record straight and let Anne know about Autumn’s many internet identities and why she was labeled a bully on our blog:

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And those identities are:

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Athena is right.  Autumn was also lying about our hosting company.  We left because we found their rules to be a little too strict.  And, we left on good terms:

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Now, how did Anne respond to Autumn’s lies?  Well…

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See how Autumn calls us morons?  Nice, huh?  That’s right, Autumn, whenever you lose an argument, you should always resort to ad hominem attacks.  It works so well.  It doesn’t make you look childish at all.

So, after this, guess what happened!

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Autumn got banned!

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Our second example was posted by Nettie Neal Bell who tried to defend Edward Lorn by saying that we wrongly labeled him a bully.  You all remember Troll Edward from Once Upon A Time in the Land of BookLikes, right?  Well, fortunately Athena stepped in to disabuse everyone of Nettie’s silly notion:

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Finally, our last example is Jenny Trout and the load of lies she tried to feed Anne about how we put people in danger and published their private information, and how we don’t care about authors, how we shot babies and beat up the elderly, and yada yada yada, whatever lie she and her friends could think of to vilify us.  Oh and btw, the “well respected website” she refers to here is Jane Litte’s Dear Author.  *snort*  Guess she forgot to mention Jane’s attack on Nathan Bransford after he spoke out against the bullying on Goodreads (Nathan, too, had mentioned our blog and was attacked for it).  She also forgot to mention how Jane defended the violent reviewers who physically threatened Veronica Roth.

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Oh, btw, we’ve never used content from Dear Author, so that’s another lie.  In fact, that’s a new one.  Haven’t seen that one before.

Anyway, this is what Anne had to say to Jenny:

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And then guess what happened!

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That’s right!

Jenny got banned!

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So, in the end, how did Anne respond to all of this nonsense?  Well…

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We should also mention that the majority of the comments on Anne’s post were overwhelmingly positive toward her message about the bullies and about STGRB, including this one:

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Guess what, bullies!  Anne and her followers aren’t stupid.  They can see right through your bullshit and they know what you’re up to.  Unfortunately for you, your tactics are transparent and haven’t fooled anyone.

Now, how did the bullies react to getting banned?  Well… here was Jenny’s very mature reaction:

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The “Smart Bitches” whose self-description is only half right (and we’re not referring to the “smart” half), had this to say:

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Uh… no, Sarah the Smart Bitch.  She doesn’t have a narrow view of book reviewing.  She just has an honest and honorable view of it, unlike you and the cretins you hang out with online.  She also knew Jenny’s “information” was a load of horse manure.

Now… Sarah the Smart Bitch, if you’re going to write a blog post, you should really publish the facts.  The facts are that we published public information on our blog.  We never published private information or addresses or phone numbers or anything of that nature, unlike some of your bully friends who’ve done that to several authors we know and who have also physically called and threatened them.  The fact is that we only published real names if they had previously been made public and publishing someone’s real name is not PII, nor is it illegal.  Publishing their real name in conjunction with their address, phone number, IP address, etc. is PII.  Yet you bullies seem to be missing this fact.  You seem to be having a problem getting your facts straight in general, don’t you?  And here we thought you were “smart bitches”.  Hmm…

Apparently not.

Furthermore, Sarah the Smart Bitch, we here at STGRB have a feeling that Anne doesn’t give a flying #$%! about what you or Jenny Trout or any of your bully friends have to say about her.  Anne Rice is a superstar.  And you?  Well… you’re not.  Anne has millions of readers and millions of followers who understand perfectly well the message she is trying to convey.  Why?  Because they’ve seen your lies and your drama and your bullying and they’ve had enough.  We’ve all had quite enough.

Anne is absolutely right.  You need to get out of the business of bullying and leave authors and other readers alone!

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P.S. Hey, bullies!  Since you seem to like this cartoon so much, we’ll show it to you again as a reminder of what will keep happening to you when you act like jerks online:

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Bully Hypocrisy

Filed Under: Bully Hypocrisy by Johnny Be Good — 9 Comments
April 27, 2014

We received a couple comments just recently on our blog we thought deserved a mention:

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What cartoon are they talking about? This one:

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We have to agree with Some Guy and Anony Me. They hit the nail right on the head.

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Bullies, Hypocrisy, & Freedom of Speech

Filed Under: Bully Hypocrisy by Johnny Be Good — 3 Comments
December 17, 2013

Below is a post written by one of our blog readers, Anon92X, that really gets to the heart of the matter when it comes to the bullies, their hypocrisy, and their “freedom of speech”.

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First things first. Here’s some of the screenshots I promised of Ridley and KarlynP using the word ‘retarded’ as if it were perfectly acceptable.

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There are more (in Karlyn’s case, lots more!), but these are enough to prove the point.

For some time, crazed blogger Angela has made banning the R word her particular hobby horse. She attacked one author in the past, and lately she has been leading the charge against author Mysti Parker for using it. If you look at the BBA Whisperer facebook page, you’ll see she has a photo of something called ‘Blogging Against Disablism.’ It’s funny in a disturbing sort of way, but not as funny as Ridley’s self-description on her Booklikes profile: “As someone who uses a wheelchair, she takes a particular interest in disability themes.”

When I warned in an earlier comment that I might post Ridley and Karlyn’s names if Angela kept attacking people, Angela tried to pre-empt me:

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It’s no use for Angela to suggest that she doesn’t approve of ‘trolls’ using that word. Ridley and KarlynP are not ‘trolls’ – at least not by Angela’s standards. They are well-respected members of the BBA mob that has been terrorizing authors for years on Goodreads, Amazon, and now Booklikes. KarlynP is in the top 10,000 Amazon reviewers, and the top 100 Goodreads reviewers. Both of them were around long before Angela came along and decided to boost her profile by attacking SPAs. They have both used that word more than once. Why didn’t anybody say anything?

Because it’s all bullshit.

None of them care about how hurtful the word ‘retarded’ can be. But they do know that it’s politically incorrect to use it. So when an SPA uses it, it’s a smart tactical move to pretend shock and indignation. Kind of like Captain Renault in Casablanca, Angela likes to pretend she is shocked, shocked! To find anyone using that word. And not just Angela.

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And that’s what makes them, but especially Angela, so disgusting. It’s all about what will strategically advance her ’cause.’  So when Mysti Parker, who just happens to be a rival Fantasy author, makes a slip of the tongue, Angela pounces on her, eager to destroy a rival under the guise of fighting for the rights of the disabled.

This is especially disturbing in light of their much touted defense of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech, as anyone knows, is freedom to use offensive speech. If ‘reviewers’ can shelve books under offensive titles, then it should be okay to use the word ‘retarded.’

But this was never about freedom of speech. This was about self-appointed mobs out to police other people’s behavior. Some of the worst offenders are SPAs like Angela, who thinks she can advance her career by attacking other SPAs. She should ask authors like Stacia K. or Anne S. how well it worked for them.

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Derrick’s Hypocrisy

Filed Under: Bully Hypocrisy by Johnny Be Good — 3 Comments
August 31, 2013

You all remember Derrick from the attack on Lauren Pippa/Howard when he rated/reviewed her unreleased book, right?  If you don’t remember, we’ll show you some screenshots we took:

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That’s right.  He’s the little weasel who sparked the whole blow up with Lauren Howard that ran like wildfire through the media.  Well, check out this GR Feedback Discussion called , where the OP says:

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Then, scroll down to :

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Unbelievable, right?

The bullies’ hypocrisy goes on and on and on…

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Bully Hypocrisy, Part Five Million

Filed Under: Amazon Fora Trolls, Bully Attacks, Bully Hypocrisy, GR Bullies by Johnny Be Good — 18 Comments
July 25, 2013

Why are we calling this Bully Hypocrisy, Part Five Million?  Because at this point, we have completely lost track of how many times the bullies have either broken , contradicted themselves, or flat out created such bullshit double standards, it is almost unfathomable that they still show their faces in public.  And whose faces are we talking about?  A LOT of them, some we haven’t seen in a while.

It all started when we received this message by Lost:

Saw this, didn’t know if you had yet or not.

To which I said:

Wow, we haven’t seen a nest of trolls that big in a long time.  It’s so interesting that the drama on GR always seems to revolve around them.  And they never get it, do they?

And then Anony:

Yeah, it’s because they’re a bunch of hateful little bitches.  That’s all that really needs to be said.  Furthermore, the hypocrisy of these people astounds me.  They can harass this reviewer on Amazon for stating his opinion, but when it happens to them, oh no, it’s a crime.

SO hypocritical!

So, what can you find when you click the link above?  Well, you find a review written by a GR member named Khanh (okay, we know that name evokes images of Star Trek, but please don’t go there, you’ll only ruin the movie for yourself :) ).  And of course, Khanh’s review is your typical one-star, scathing, spiteful, this-book-is-worse-than-dog-shit review.  You know, the norm on GR for any book that is popular and actually worth reading.

Okay, so, you with us so far?  Good.

Now, the reason Anony calls the bullies hypocrites (and he’s right btw) is because of our post Amazon Fora Trolls Harass Reviewer where we show you an example of the bully trolls (who all belong to the same ), harassing a reviewer on Amazon.

If you read through Khanh’s review and the attached comments (if you can bear losing a few brain cells), you will see that at first everything goes rather smoothly with Khanh’s friends gushing all over her “great” review, congratulating her, thanking her, and patting her on the back.  *eyeroll*

Then, someone named Rose comes along and rains on their joyous parade:

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And what do the trolls automatically assume?

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And… the onslaught begins.  You all know by now what that means for this author who probably doesn’t even know what’s happening.  But do you notice a pattern here?  On Bookman’s Amazon , they jump in and criticize him for his review.  Then, they start making claims that he’s an author under a sock-puppet account.  Now, on Khanh’s review, they immediately jump on the person who criticized her review and do the exact same thing — start making claims that it’s a sock puppet of the author.

You see that?  It’s always the evil author whether it’s an actual reviewer or an author.  Hmm… *scratches chin*  This is like author-paranoia.

Then, sadly, another person (who is an author) steps in and makes a brave attempt to talk some reason to the psycho trolls who by now are having a party smearing Michelle Pickett and her book:

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After this, the trollnado truly goes wild.  If you choose to read the whole thing, you better get a nice big bag of popcorn and sit back to enjoy the show.  But for your reading enjoyment, we decided to get a snapshot of a few quotable pearls (disclaimer: the idiocy of the following comments may cause the reader either dizziness, convulsions or seizures, so proceed at your own risk; we cannot be held responsible :) ):

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And then, guess who comes crawling out from under her rock:

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Wow!  We haven’t seen her nasty mug since last year when she went into hiding and became Mistress Owlpoo, who inevitably got slapped on the hand by Wikipedia for trying to libel Dougie Brimson on his Wiki page.  Y’all remember that?

But you notice how she says:

An opinion of a book is NEVER wrong. Telling a reviewer how to review though, is.

Well, okay then.  You got that Mahala, Anna K. and company?  So maybe you all should go back over to Bookman’s review that you criticized/attacked and apologize to him.  If you’ve forgotten where it is, here’s the , girls.

Anyhow, back to the bully attack…

So after this, what do they do?

What they do best.  They blacklist Kate and start trashing her books.

Sorry, Kate.  We know you were just trying to put things right, but morons like these will never see reason, even if it falls out of the sky and does an interpretive dance on their face.  The fact is that they are just too stupid.  Plain and simple.

Anyhow, for Kate’s side of the story, read The Frightening Side of Book Reviews, where she says:

But then I did something really, really stupid. I engaged.

For the record, NEVER respond to negative reviews of your own work. I don’t. No author should. But this *wasn’t* my book, and I just wanted to mention that the character who doesn’t speak English at first learns fast, and the fact that she didn’t speak it from the start made sense. I also asked people not to post profane personal attacks. And I mentioned my connection to SHP, since that’s the disclosure policy when any SHP editor, publicist, etc. posts on a review site.

*face palm*

Yeah, I know.

As you might expect, everyone then turned on me. They decided to mark all or her books–as well as all of my books–“not-for-me.”

They called me several unflattering things. One even tweeted a link to the let’s-call-Kate-several-unflattering-things thread to Twitter.

*sigh*

We’ve seen this way too many times.  But in the end, Kate is right.  DO NOT engage with these people.  It is a MASSIVE waste of time.  These trolls are psychotic.  They are well known in the book community for spewing hatred wherever they go and imposing ridiculous rules on everyone else who is not part of their online gang, while at the same time breaking these so called rules whenever they see fit.  Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.  So stay very, very far away from them.  Please, pass the word around.  We hate seeing bully gang attacks like this.

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Amazon Fora Trolls Harass Reviewer

Filed Under: Amazon Fora Trolls, Bully Hypocrisy by Johnny Be Good — 18 Comments
July 20, 2013

You all remember the bully “” as outlined by Looney, right?  If not, here it is:

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These are essentially the “rules” according to the Amazon Fora Trolls (also known as the Amazon Review Mafia or ARM).  Oh, and btw, if you remember, Looney broke these “rules” twice, here and here.

Okay so, get this.  We just recently received a link to a review where the other trolls broke the code, too.  Here’s the :

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In the comments that follow the review, you will notice a few familiar names.  At first, Mayhem and Anna K. jump in to harass the reviewer, calling him names and reprimanding him for several “offenses” (offenses the bullies have been guilty of for years, that is, reviewing a book they haven’t fully read).  Then, the trolls start accusing the reviewer of being an author until Coaxial jumps in and calls that theory into question.  The whole thing is quite ridiculous, but we thought we’d include it for everyone’s amusement:

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Notice the comment by Coaxial (the self-appointed grammar police): “haven read some of his work”?  We about died laughing at that.

Now, do we agree with this review?  No, we don’t.  Those of us here at STGRB who have read Flat Out Love (i.e. Athena and Stitch) say that it is a fantastic book.  In fact, it’s so good, even Jeff Bezos recommended it.  However, does this guy have the right to state his opinion?  Yes, he does.  Although we don’t agree with the manner in which he does it, he still has a right to state his opinion without being harassed.

Have we seen the trolls harass reviewers before?  Yep!  You all remember Chris who left a review of Katherine Ashe’s book in Reviewer Subterfuge?  Well, the trolls harassed Chris to the point where he eventually just asked Amazon to remove his account altogether.  This is precisely the reason we started .  To keep the trolls from harassing not just authors, but also other reviewers.  It needs to stop. (If you haven’t already signed, please click the link above.)

So beware when you’re roaming the fora.  The trolls are a nasty lot.  For all their self-professed sainthood, they really have earned their name.

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GR Silences Authors, Part 2

Filed Under: Abuse, Bully Hypocrisy, Bully Lies, Goodreads by Johnny Be Good — 18 Comments
June 15, 2013

Before we begin with our post today, we want to share with you a new development on GR.  Apparently, GR wants to know how customers rate them:

RateGROne of our visitors already filled out the form and had this to say:

I received a GR “survey” today and was happy to tell them my low opinion of their pathetic, anti-writer site.  They’ve done nothing less than create a stalking and trolling playground for sociopaths.  It’s beyond me what the point of all this mass hatred of writers is.  I don’t know if it is fueled by other authors, or just the usual conspiracy of dunces.

Anyway, it’s good to know you guys are here.  I think the best way to influence Goodreads is to stop using their site completely.  Those of us who do well with Amazon may want to see if we can influence things on that side of the great divide.  Beyond that, I think GR is a lost cause.

If any of our readers want to join in and let GR know what you think, just click on this link.  We’ve also posted a link to the survey on our sidebar.

Now, on to business…

In our last post, GR Silences Authors, Part 1, we showed you the story of an author who spoke out against the abuse on GR and was banned for it.  Now we want to show you the whiny feedback discussion started by , one of the bullies on our BBG list.

As you read, please take note of a couple points.  One, everything these bullies accuse authors of doing (i.e. stalking and harassing, getting their friends to stalk and harass, etc.) is absolutely false.  We never see authors doing this.  But!  We’ve seen on countless occasions the bullies doing it not just to authors, but to anyone who stands against them.  Two, these dumb asses still seem to think the reaction to them is about negative reviews.  It’s not.  It’s about their vicious and ceaseless personal attacks against others.  This is a point they never seem to get.  Finally, we have honestly lost track of how many times we’ve caught the bullies in their pious hypocrisy, not to mention their incessant lying.  In the from the GR feedback forum, you will see this come out glaringly in their words:

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Then Kara responds with this:

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We’d like to draw your attention to where she says:

Blog posts on Goodreads that seek to harass or intimidate individual reviewers do violate our Terms of Service and the appropriate action will be taken.

Gosh, that’s funny, Kara, because that’s exactly what Angela did in  and yet strangely enough, nothing happened to her post or her account.

Oh, but wait!  That’s right!  I forgot.  She’s one of you, isn’t she?  So she can harass anyone she wants and get away with it.  Silly me.  I should have known.

Anyhow, back to the whiners:

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Now at this point, we would tell you why all of this whiny bullshit is so hypocritical, but we don’t have to because Annabeth took the words right out of our mouths:

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Well said, Annabeth!

And then the whining continues.  Notice how Jim says something very insightful here.  Apparently, he gets it — there’s a reason these bullies end up on troll alert lists.

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Oh no!  He said our name!  What are we going to do?  We’re supposed to be the blog that shall not be named!  😀

After this ultimate faux pas by Jim, the bullies truly go crazy.  Guess he really hit a nerve:

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STGRB is vile trash?  Why?  Because we tell the truth about you?

You notice the outright lies these people tell when our site is mentioned?  That we do all of this shit that we’ve never done (also referring to Lucy’s phantom phone caller).  This is their usual MO.  They’ve been trying to discredit our site ever since we started.  By this time, their lies have gotten old.

Finally, after the discussion degenerates into an I-hate-STGRB frenzy, Emily ends the conversation because it has become “unproductive”:

Emily

And that’s it!

Whiny, whiny, whiny bullies!  They will never grow up.

But in all seriousness, we believe that this is just the beginning to a bigger issue that we see evolving on GR.  That is the growing hatred of authors and the silencing of their voices when they try to speak out against the abuse and injustice that is done to them.

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