Tag Archive: Bully Wank


GR Silences Authors, Part 2

Filed Under: Abuse, Bully Hypocrisy, Bully Lies, Bully Wank, 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!  :D

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”:

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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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The Bullies Go Mad

Filed Under: Bully Lies, Bully Wank, Goodreads, GR Bully Culture by Johnny Be Good — 13 Comments
May 1, 2013

Wow!  Now I think we’ve seen it all… okay well maybe not, but this is pretty crazy.  This just shows to what lengths these people will go.  We were just tipped off to this  where there is a screenshot of sock-puppets with our names leaving one-stars and derogatory shelving of Dougie Brimson’s book (these socks have since been deleted):

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Okay, it’s obvious this isn’t us and Dougie knows that as well, but this just proves that the real sock-puppeteers are the bullies themselves.  Ever wonder why the bullies are so quick to accuse others of sock-puppetry?  It’s the same reason why liars are the first to call other people liars.

Self-projection.

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Bully Wank

Filed Under: Bully Wank by Johnny Be Good — 5 Comments
March 10, 2013

Below is a post we published on December 14, 2012.  We’re re-pubbing it now because we want to show our readers just what we mean when we say that these bully authors, like Looney, Stacia K., Heidi B., etc., don’t actually practice what they preach, but instead always, always end up breaking their own code.  The post below shows Looney doing it again.

Also, if you check the comment thread on our Badly Behaving Goodreaders page, you’ll see that Jeremy D. (who signed the ridiculous No Sock Puppets Here, Please petition) has also fallen from grace.  No surprise there.  Just another sanctimonious hypocrite trying to join the bully crowd in order to curry favor.

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We’ve come up with a great new idea!  Every so often, when we receive screenshots of (or links to) GR bully wank from visitors, we’re going to do a blog post on them.  This is strictly for kicks.  Consider it our monthly bully wank reporting.  Today, we’ve got some good shots.  Next post we’ll be showing you some shots that one of our site visitors took when she caught the bullies in a lie.

Okay so… the first wanker of the month is none other than our favorite bully, Looney Tunes.  Here’s a shot we received from a visitor of Looney chewing out Dougie:

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Such a sweetheart, isn’t she?

But wait!  There’s more!  We just recently received this comment from Anon:

If you’re interested, Somerloon is now complaining about a review for one of her own books on her blog. Wasn’t she the one who said authors shouldn’t ever address reviewers about a bad review? I think what she’s doing now could be called author behaving badly…at least in her own terms.

This exactly what Anon is talking about:

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Here is she is referring to:

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Now, you all remember Looney’s ridiculous “”, right?

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You see that?  Number four:

4. Readers have the right to say what they want about your book because they’ve paid for it (either in time reading or in actual money)

So I guess that sanctimonious hypocrisy strike five!

So, Looney, did you forget your “” AGAIN?  Or is it just that readers have a right to say whatever they want about a book only when it’s not your book.  Ah, that was it.  Just checking.

Now, moving on… here we have a screencap, sent to us by a visitor, of Jane, and Cyndy going at it. Mreeeoow!  Pfft!  Pfft!:

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Now, girls!  Can we all just get along?!

Apparently not.

Here we have infamous Ridley and her of It Had to Be You, by SEP:

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(Note: a wank review is not a bully review.  It’s important to know the difference.  A bully review is a review that attacks or libels the author.  A wank review is… well, we’ll show you.  Keep reading.)

Now, here is where Ridley and her friend, Christine, go at it:

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What’s freaky about this is that Ridley seems to be proud of the way she behaves.  And people wonder why we have her under “Scary. Run. Fast.”

Now, none of this is new to you, we’re sure, but what is new is some of the messages we’ve been getting from readers (not authors), like us, who have been harassed by this crowd for – wait for it – writing reviews about books that they like!  The bullies are actually giving other readers a hard time about writing four and five-star reviews and not enough one and two-star reviews.  As if they had a right to tell them how to review!  And, to top it all off, then they have the audacity to say that other people do not have the right to criticize them about their reviewing methods or to tell them about how to write their reviews.  Un-freaking-believable!

One of our visitors, who is one of these harassed reviewers, says:

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He’s right.  That is exactly what they do.  Like Jane and her ilk, they purposefully choose books they know they’ll hate just so they can bash them.  And then they write wank reviews like these (these are reviews from Heaven, be wary, the is infested with wankers):

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So professional, aren’t they?  Now, are you starting to see why people consider GR to be the armpit of the reviewing community?  One of our visitors calls it a sewer and that’s an apt description.  It is because of the way these bullies behave and the culture they have established on GR that the information found there about books and authors is unreliable.  We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: it’s a TOXIC environment.

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The Bullies Get Played

Filed Under: Bully Wank, Goodreads by Johnny Be Good — 6 Comments
February 27, 2013

Below is a post we published on September 11, 2012, about a joke that was played on the bullies by some of our friendly Amazonians.  What’s so hilarious about it is that they all (the bullies) fell for it.  Every.  Single.  One.  Even Kat Kennedy stepped in and embarrassed herself… again.  We’re finding that she’s good at that.

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Okay, we had to tell our readers about this because it was just too funny!  Keep reading because this is hilarious!

Apparently, the Amazonians, Matthew Fish, G. Faso, and Splinker (who formed the ) played a joke on the bullies by making a sock puppet named  who in turn created the list .

And what did the bullies do?  They flooded it with authors who are part of their own bully group.  Who did they blame for making the list in the first place?  Gee, can you guess?  We’ll let the comments show you anyway:

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So, let’s see.  She’s been blamed for our site, for the Goodreads Follies site, for the NSPHP site, and now this.  At this point, it’s comical: “OMG!  She’s everywhere!  Watch out!  She’s just around that corner.  She’s gonna jump out at you and go BOO!”

Finally, someone named Book left this comment, informing them of who was responsible:

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In case you don’t feel like going to the Amazon forum, here are the screenshots of Mahala and G. Faso’s convo on Amazon:

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So… after Book left the comment, what happened?

Silence.  :D

Even Cuddleboogery fell for it:

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They say:

Usually, we would ignore this and be vaguely insulted that we’re supposed to be this stupid.  BUT, something rather hilarious happened.  And it happened in the form of Goodreaders flocking to the list and adding books by authors who have been targeted for sticking up for reviewers.

Peter, can we get a translation?

PP: Of course!

Of course, we couldn’t ignore this as it was an insult to our very low collective IQ, so we sent all of our minions over to the list to add books by authors who have kissed our asses and are now part of our bully group.

Thanks, Peter!

So, Cuddleboog, the only problem is that the Amazonians knew you were going to do this.  You got played.  Joke’s on you!

Trololololololo!

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Authors Are Not Second Class Citizens

Filed Under: Bully Hypocrisy, Bully Lies, Bully Wank by Johnny Be Good — 23 Comments
February 18, 2013

Well, well.  It looks as if the bully crowd is trying to tell authors how to behave… AGAIN!  A couple days ago, we received this comment from Maya:

Well, since this site is always about how readers are so mean to authors on GR, maybe this thread will interest you; readers sharing stories of great interactions they had with authors on GR: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1210998-dos-and-don-ts-for-gr-authors-blog-post. It’s the “other side”, so to speak. :)

To which Good Belle responds:

Are you fucking kidding me? Took me all of five seconds to get pissed off reading that thread. Who the hell are readers to tell authors how to/how not to behave?? And check boxes for authors before being ‘granted’ an GR account? Do we live in communist times? This ain’t Russia, China or North Korea – time for us to stop telling authors what they can and cannot do.

And Karig says:

All this does is confirm that places like Goodreads are (currently) useless for authors, particularly authors who aren’t already famous. The clique there (and at other places like the forums at Amazon) react with outrage if an author so much as mentions the name of his book (which is apparently considered “spamming”). Hell, some people there get seriously put out with you if you even mention that you **have** a book without saying what the title is.

I can understand that authors should avoid the “hard sell” and shouldn’t try to get the word out about their books by dumping blurbs and ad-speak onto a forum thread, but Heidi Belleau’s list of rules is offensive. She’s going to tell us that if you’re an author, you can’t talk to your fans unless they talk to you first, and that when that happens, you can talk about other people’s books but NOT your own? Give me a freaking break. Is an author a second-class citizen who needs to be reminded of her place? Is she supposed to shrug and accept lots of one-star reviews from people who haven’t read her books because somebody online with a chip on his shoulder thought she was getting uppity?

These rules are ridiculous, and they make places like Goodreads useless if not poison for writers just starting out and struggling to get fans in the first place.

And then Maya:

Well… you could also ask who the hell are authors to tell readers how to behave. I think everyone simply needs to behave with class and politeness, both authors and readers. I shared because an author wrote the article and I read some successful stories of reader/author interaction in there.

I must have missed the post where they wanted check boxes before allowing authors on GR.

Well, Maya, I think she was referring to on the thread.  It’s right on the front page:CheckBox

Do you see the last sentence there?  That “some people” just like causing drama?  Of course, she’s referring to authors.  But we all know, by the evidence we’ve shown over and over again on our blog, that these “some people” are none other than the bullies we have named on our BBG page.

So, here it is again!  The bullies causing drama and then blaming authors for it.  It NEVER ends.

Now, the author Maya is referring to, who wrote the blog post, is Heidi B.  We’re not going to post what she wrote here.  We’d rather not soil our pretty new theme with her self-righteous excrement, but we do agree with her on one thing – don’t ever wrestle with pigs.  This is why we always tell everyone what we wrote on our Do’s and Don’t’s for Victims: DO NOT engage with the bullies.  They are nothing more than a herd of smelly, foul-mouthed swine who relish in dragging authors down into the mud that they live in and love so well.

What we fully disagree with is Heidi’s statement that recommends authors interact with their fans only if they engage them first.  This is just utterly ridiculous.  Karig is right.  Authors are not second class citizens.  They have a right to correct factual mistakes in reviews without being bullied by these assholes.  They have a right to be offended when they are personally attacked in a “book” review, that is actually an author review.  They also have a right to be annoyed when their books are attacked by an infestation of trolls who leave one-star flybys without even reading the books in the first place.  And yet it seems that all of this is allowed on GR and the moderators are just fine with it.  This is why we alert others (particularly new authors) as to whom and what they need to avoid.  Because their GR experience can actually be rather pleasant if they know the ropes and are warned in advance.

And speaking of warnings, here are couple Anons warning our readers about Heidi and her circle of friends:

The person (author) who wrote the so-called rules is not exactly the person anyone should be taking advice from. Just my observation from reading her on Twitter and various places online over the last year or so.

And then from Anon3:

That disclaimer by the person who started that thread, stating that she doesn’t know the author is a complete lie, and the author who wrote that blog post is best buds on Twitter with some of the worst bullies out there.

Anon3 is referring to on the thread:

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Anon3 is absolutely right.  Willaful (one of the BBG) is lying.  Check this out.  Recognize anyone?

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If you didn’t recognize one of our Biggest Offenders, go here.

Or how about this shot?  Recognize any names?

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Public enemy no. 1?  Hardly.  But Heidi is rolling in the mud with the pigs.  Does it give you the impression that she wrote the post for attention?  Hmm… *scratches chin*  More than likely.  What’s hilarious is the fact that these people are constantly writing up rules for authors.  Because, you see, they always end up breaking them.  For this reason, we’ll be keeping a particularly close eye on Heidi.  If she’s anything like her friends on Twitter, she’ll end just like Looney and her “”.

Everyone remember that?  You know, the code that she broke TWICE.  If anyone is missing our posts on that, showing how she made a complete ass of herself, don’t worry.  Within the next month, we’ll be re-pubbing them, so stay tuned…

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Is Being Evil A Handicap?

Filed Under: Bully Wank, GR Bully Culture, Opinion Piece by Johnny Be Good — 16 Comments
January 27, 2013

Below is an opinion piece written by a site visitor who asked us of he/she could share his/her thoughts about the bullies on our blog.  We want our readers to know that if they have something they want to share and wish to write an opinion piece, they are welcome to do so and submit it to Athena via Contact Us for approval.

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Is Being Evil a Handicap? (An Opinion Piece)

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Is being evil a handicap? This is a question that I would like to pose to readers of this excellent blog, for they are dealing with evil every day as they battle the internet trolls who strive to steal their peace, their livelihoods, and their happiness. After all, what else do you call such life-sucking vampires but pure Evil? Evil strives to hurt and to harm. Evil does not have good intentions. Evil seeks to destroy. But, admittedly (and unfortunately), evil also has a power all its own. It exists, and there are people who have always been drawn to it throughout history. There are people who grow stronger from the pain they inflict, who enjoy and thrive on it. There are people who hide behind masks of sanity who are, in reality, cold-hearted through and through. We all know such people when we encounter them, because of how they make us feel, even if they look and behave normally to the outside world. We know them because of the destruction they leave in their wake. In days gone by, these people would’ve been ostracized by their community for their behavior. Now many of them hide, undetected, behind computer screens, typing away in the flickering light, hunched in the dark, their insanity raging behind “well-written” one-star reviews and scathing attacks designed to destroy author’s careers. They make vitriolic personal posts intended to strike at the core of another human being’s heart; they attack all that is near and dear to another person; they stalk, harass, belittle, name-call, and gather like-minded bullies to destroy whomever is their next target. They do not care about the real people they harm, or the families hurt by their attacks. They don’t see the aftermath of their behavior, nor do they care. They hide behind “free speech.” They hide behind anonymous IP addresses. They hide behind fake Amazon accounts. But their intention is the same: to harm and destroy.

Intention is everything. Every sane human being has the capability to look inside oneself and ask what his / her intention is behind every choice, decision, and action. Every sane human being has the capacity to feel compassion. Every sane human being has the capability to amend the error of his / her ways after realizing he / she has made wrong choices.

Insane people cannot. Evil people WILL not.

Combine an insane person, such as one of the bullies STGRB frequently profiles who is no different from the typical frothing, eye-rolling, obscenity-screaming bag lady one sees on the street, and an evil one, such as a hate-filled, bent-on-destruction bully, and you have an entity all its own. A frightening, destructive one. The best way to deal with that type of person is to recognize what you are dealing with and head the other way when you see him / her coming your way. That is why this blog provides such a good service with the bright light it shines on such individuals: the layperson is now able to recognize the evil, often faceless bully on the internet, and utilize self-protection.

Which brings me back to the topic at hand: Is being evil a handicap in its own right?

For proud handicapped persons such as one of our other bullies (often featured on STGRB), they might say it is, and a badge of honor at that. After all, this particular bully is often seen around the web using her handicap to bully others. I’ve seen her on too many blogs boasting about her handicap, using it to garner sympathy, and then using it as a whipping stick to shut down people who disagree with her. When a disagreement gets heated (usually after this bully becomes vicious and starts attacking and name-calling), she will ultimately resort to pulling out her “handicap card” to shut people up: “I’m handicapped and you’re an ableist insulting me and you don’t know what you’re talking about, so shut the eff up” (paraphrasing here). It usually works because most people are respectful and have some degree of compassion, unlike this bully herself. In my opinion, this bully is a dual-handicap person, someone who exhibits a lack of compassion as one of her challenges. I have never once seen her apologize or take responsibility for any of her harmful actions on the internet. In fact, the more publicity she gets, the more she brags about her “strong” personality. Yeah, right. Her hateful one, is more like it. For all the people who have encountered her terrible attacks, her relentless pursuit of destruction, her rage-filled fixation on anyone she feels has wronged her, her organized lynch mobs against innocent people, and her drunk-with-power online identity, you know what I’m talking about. She is ruthless, and proud of it. And she appears to be completely devoid of conscience about her actions. That, in my opinion, is the true definition of Evil.

These bullies will likely say this blog is discriminating against them with this post. They will say this blog is ableist and hates handicapped people. This is not true. This blog post is my opinion, as a simple contributor. Simple as that. And from what I know of STGRB, this blog despises evil people and the destruction they leave in their wake. This blog champions the victims of soulless predators and evil-doers who seek to harm people’s lives, dreams, and livelihoods. This blog doesn’t hide from the truth, or from shining a light on cruel people bent on destruction, even if such people sit in a wheelchair or are psychologically unbalanced. Bully #1’s physical handicap or Bully #2’s self-professed mental instability do not, in of themselves, harm others (in fact, they could be a source of great learning and inspiration for us all, if those two people had any sense at all). But their handicap of evil DOES harm others, and that is why they have ended up on this site. Basically, from how I can see it, STGRB is an equal-opportunity bully offender, and should be proud of it. The site does not discriminate, clearly. ;)

In conclusion, I once again ask the question: Is being evil a handicap?

I would say it is. It prevents an individual from being a decent, kind person. It prevents a human being from reaching their full positive potential here on earth. I am sure being evilly handicapped denies the person from experiencing true happiness. It would be sad, terribly sad, if it weren’t so harmful to everyone around them . . . and deliberately so.

Psychopathy (or sociopathy), by most psychiatric definitions, is the only true measurement of real evil out there. It is, quite simply, defined as a lack of conscience. And that lack of conscience is demonstrated in many ways, often hidden. So how do we fully recognize it, we ask? Well, it’s pretty clear: it is the INTENT TO CAUSE HARM WITH NO CONSCIENCE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTIVE RESULT OF ONE’S OWN ACTIONS, whether it’s trying to destroy a writer’s career with fake one-star reviews, or murdering someone in cold blood. And not having a soul—or heart—is probably the biggest handicap a human being can have.

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Readers As Customers?

Filed Under: Bullied Author, Bully Wank by Johnny Be Good — 9 Comments
January 27, 2013

Just recently we received this comment from an Anon:

Here’s an interesting post from a successful author about why she replies to book reviews. She wrote multiple posts about this for Digital Book World. On one of them (I think the second post here), she goes into more depth for her reasons. Of course, Ridley and her cohorts jump in and start berating the author, who continues to behave respectfully. The owner of DBW finally deleted some of Ridley’s posts and reprimanded her and the other bullies about behaving respectfully (something they clearly are incapable of doing). It shows how ridiculous and insane these bullies are so clearly!

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The article in question is titled: When You Wish Upon a Star, You Get the Pointy End (Part 1): Why Authors Should ALWAYS Respond To Negative Reviews.  In it, author Elle Lothlorien describes her philosophy on responding to reviews by readers in a business-like way.  Treating readers as customers and trying to improve their experience of an author’s product.

Below are some screenshots we took of the people who left the author comments.  Recognize any names?  BBG list anyone?  We think it is telling that Digital Book World had to reprimand them for verbally attacking the author with name-calling and personal insults.  Some of the comments were even deleted as a result and you’ll notice that the bullies then went after DBW for doing this.  This is just further proof of what we have been saying about these people for so long.

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Now, we think that what Elle is saying in her post is perfectly rational and logical.  Treat your readers as customers.  Most reader/reviewers who are not bullies, who do not intend to be abusive and who are writing an honest, critical analysis of a book will not feel intimidated by Elle’s philosophy (although it is always a good idea to make sure they are comfortable with talking to the author, just in case).  So, why does it intimidate the bullies so much?  Simple.  The bullies want to be bullies.  They want to be mean and nasty and vulgar.  They’re not interested in an author improving the book for them because they either don’t care or they don’t want to read something they’ll like.  They want to read something they’ll hate, so they can continue to be mean and nasty.  When they are presented with the author’s polite questions, they remember that they are dealing with a human being and suddenly they develop a conscience that tells them that being a bully is wrong.  Since they will never admit that they’re wrong, instead of getting angry at themselves for what they’re doing, they get angry at anyone who suggests such a horrible crime or who tries to reprimand them for their behavior (i.e. Elle and Digital Book World in this case).

Thank you, Anon, for sharing Elle’s post with us.  And everyone else, keep ‘em coming.  The more proof we can show, the more educated people will be.

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The World Is What You Make It

Filed Under: Bully Wank by Johnny Be Good — 9 Comments
January 26, 2013

Well, well, well.  It looks like little Miss Kat managed to get over her bout of drama sickness.  After six months of remaining fairly silent in the bully community (no surprise there), Kat has all the sudden broken her silence and written about the whole affair regarding the bully attack on Sharon Desruisseaux.  Couldn’t stay away from drama for long, could she?

In her , Kat publishes Sharon’s words from her post,  and then proceeds to tell Sharon the “facts”.  *snort*

Facts?  Right.  Let’s go over those “facts”.

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So, Kat, you think the bullies have better things to do with their time than to hate on authors and books for fun?  Really?

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You see this kind of thing happen on Dear Author ALL THE TIME.  In fact, let’s all take a look at this review.  It’s a review (written by January Jane) of Spoils of War by Phoenix Sullivan, an independent author.  When you read it along with the comments that follow, you see that not only do the bullies do this for fun, they do it so they will get a rise out of an author and start a bully attack just so they can label the author BBA.  We call it the Catch on our Bully MO page.  It’s another way they bait authors.  They relish in this kind of thing.  Here’s a screenshot of one of the commenters saying that she contacted the author to solicit her response:

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Here’s another saying she wants to leave a one-star review on Amazon (without reading the book and without even writing an actual review) and just link to Jane’s review on Dear Author:

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At the end of the review, Jane says that she wanted to give the book “a better grade lest all the January reviews seem like endless hate.”

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Right.  She wanted to give the book a better grade and then states how she would also like to give the book less than an F.  Not a contradictory statement at all.

Now, getting back to Kat and her uh… “facts”, why is it easy to believe that these people are bored haters who like to hate on authors and books for fun?  The answer is simple.  Because it’s true.

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We agree, an honest opinion of a BOOK isn’t bullying.  But a dishonest review to get revenge on an author, or a review that bashes the author, or even worse, a review made with the intention of baiting an author into a fight IS bullying.  And the bullies do these kinds of things all the time.  We’ve shown proof of this on our blog and we will continue to show proof of it.

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Yeah, that’s right, Kat.  You keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.  We weren’t the ones who made complete asses of ourselves during the GR Bully Meltdown.  That was you and your band of cronies, remember?  No wonder you’ve been silent for months.

No one takes us seriously, huh?  Only organizations like The Huffington Post, USA Today, Forbes, and Goodereader, but really, they’re nobodies.  Right?

Fact #4:

Fact4

What Kat fails to mention is that this author, at that time, believed Lucy’s lie, as many people did.  Once we pointed to the fact that Lucy never took the number to the police to have them investigate it and that there was no one who could corroborate her story (as Andrew Losowsky, the books editor of The Huffington Post noted), then people started to see the truth.  Why didn’t Lucy go to the police and why wasn’t there anyone to corroborate her story?  The answer is simple.  Because no one called her.  She was lying.  After this, Athena contacted the author in question and found out that she had started writing again.  So, nice try, Kat, but you fail.

Now, overall, we don’t have a problem with the way people treat books.  We have a problem with the way people treat other PEOPLE.  This is something that the bullies never seem to understand.  We don’t care what Sharon originally wrote on her blog about a particular review of one of her books and as we see it, she has a right to write what she wants without being harassed for it.  It’s her blog.  Our beef is with what the bullies are doing to her personally.  The whole BBA mentality.  Name calling.  The boycotting.  The harassing.  All this childish bullshit for which they are famous.  Our beef is with them coming into her space and harassing her for an opinion or an emotion she wanted to express ON HER OWN BLOG.  After all, isn’t everyone allowed freedom of speech?  This is the same thing that happened to Claude Bouchard and Lynne Copeland (posts to come) and it’s crap.  This constant bashing and bullying of other people is a growing problem on the internet and it’s something we would never try to justify with words like this:

WorldIsHarsh

This is what Kat writes at the end of her post.  The world is a harsh place and people are cruel.  Deal with it.  This is how Kat justifies bullying.  It’s funny – it’s always the people who are cruel to others who try to justify their behavior with this statement.

Okay, Kat, so the world is harsh and we just need to deal with it, right?  So, should Charles Manson have gotten up in front of the court and said: “Hey, the world is harsh and people are cruel.  So am I.  You all just need to deal with it.”  Or how about all those children who are abused?  Should we just tell them that the world is a harsh place and they just need to deal?  How about when they grow up and raid their grandfather’s arsenal so they can go to school and blow away their classmates?  Should we justify that by saying that people are cruel and the world is harsh and we just need to move on?

Sorry, Kat, but once again, you fail.  You want to justify your behavior by saying the world is harsh and people are cruel and that we just need to deal with it?  Well, guess what.  We call bullshit.  Only people who want to justify abuse say that.  The world is what you make it.  Period.

And you can say all you want about our blog.  It doesn’t make it true.  And it doesn’t change the fact that you’re as big a bully now as you were six months ago.  The only thing that’s different now is that everyone knows it.

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