When we said that there is something rotten at the core of GR, we were right. To recap from our previous post, Something Rotten at the Core of GR, we told you about what happened to GR member Kathy when she and Angela had a disagreement in the then secret Asshat group. (To read that discussion, go to Asshats Will Be Asshats). After we published their disagreement on our site, Kathy suddenly found that her account was being tampered with by one of the moderators at GR. That is, her reviews and messages started disappearing. When she tried to replace them, her account was deleted altogether:
What’s more, Eve Thomas who had announced she was back on GR to promote her new book on domestic violence, suddenly found that out of nowhere, one of her blog posts had been deleted and then shortly after that, her account was completly blown away as well.
What do these two women, Kathy and Eve, have in common? They both had run-ins with Angela.
Not only that, shortly after our publication of Something Rotten at the Core of GR, we had a wave of people contact us to let us know that when they had shelved as Badly Behaving Author, their accounts, too, were booted from the site (which made me almost choke on my wine when I read . Can we say that Angie is just a tad hypocritical? Why, yes, I think we can!).
In the comments on our last post, speculations went flying everywhere about the Goodreads staff being involved in the corruption and criminal activity. Now, given a new piece of evidence, we know for sure that they are. A site visitor sent us this screenshot of a taken from Angela’s review of Kristin Michelle Adam’s book:
For all those who don’t know what TPTB stands for, it’s “The Powers That Be”. So, now we know that Angela is one of “The Powers That Be” on Goodreads, which means that she is either a moderator or some kind of manager.
Is this all starting to make sense now?
Now, let’s give you a little taste of what Angela is like:
As you can clearly see, she is a very angry woman. To read more about Angela, you can go here and here.
So what is our message today? Why are we showing you this? Because, these are the kind of people who are running Goodreads.
We’ll say that again, this time a little more loudly:
THESE ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RUNNING GOODREADS!
With Angela being TPTB on GR, the site is really getting to be exactly the kind of snake pit Absolute Write has become with Macallister Stone as its owner and moderator (if any of you don’t remember our post on AW, please read The Banning of Robin Sullivan).
So, on that note, we’re going to end this post with a comment left by Karig:
Aaaaand this is why Goodreads is utterly worthless for authors: The inmates are running the asylum over there — or, at the very least, one of the inmates has access to the security office.
You’re absolutely right, Karig. The nutters are indeed running the asylum.
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An addendum. We wanted to show you by A.H. showing her reaction to GR friends with whom she has just had a falling out. The post is very telling about her character:
We now have her listed on our Biggest Offenders list and on our Scary Run Fast sidebar.
Whatever you do, watch out for this one!
