*sigh*

If amazon/goodreads are listening to authors over members, I wonder how much flak they are getting from the majority of authors (of course the bba's for all the noise they make are only a tiny minority of authors) in emails and private conversations?  

I completely sympathize with authors who don't want to publicly engage on the overheated goodreads threads.  I'm sure there's a point staff don't want to respond on certain threads (but, it is a part of their job).

I wonder if the bba's are rethinking being so hotly angered over "bba" and other shelf names now that instead the shelf names have been replaced with 1-star ratings and negative reviews?  A lot of them struck me as seriously so concerned with their book's average ratings they made sockpuppet accounts and deliberately played victim to drum up sympathy ratings.  There certainly are lots of posts on the blogosphere on how unfair it is a reader on goodreads can 1-star their books even withiut reading and withiut offering up constructive criticism they can use.

Huh?  Am I only the goodreads member who saw a September post stating that shelves that based on contents were "in context" against the "tone of the community" would be deleted?  Am I hallucinating that comment ( which directly led to my joining booklikes and has angered me for months) or the one in the below screenshot:

Not sure I really care that much anymore; but, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1613932-deleted-reviews#comment_form is seeing some staff responses on deleted reviews (those members should have gotten an email today apparently) and some comments on deleted shelves and now permitted again shelf names.  

Not sure how clear the shelf name stuff is because gr tries to send you back to the same old supposed "FAQ" thread for info that was absolutely not clear and not seeing a lot of responses.  Sounds to me like they are now saying that the presence of certain books on a shelf will no longer cause it to be deleted (not that they are exactly admitting they did that).  Who knows anymore; I have no trust.  

The unlikely has happened.

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Staff member Emily has said they've sent all deleted reviews to their owners today by email. [screenshot]

Is this true? Anyone received them?