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:
And what do the trolls automatically assume?
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:
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 ):
And then, guess who comes crawling out from under her rock:
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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