Athena is promoting Unmasked now. She claims she was tipped off, but doesn't give us credit even though she's been responding to our updates constantly. (hide spoiler) Ungrateful BBA!(show spoiler)

The best part is we've identified the asshat behind Unmasked. She's someone STGRB attacked in the past. (hide spoiler) (show spoiler)

No wonder Unmasked wants to replace the booger colored site. Revenge is fun, ain't it?

The new site doesn't seem to understand what a Goodreads Librarian can do. GR Librarians can alter book info, but NOT users' ratings/reviews - that's what a Moderator does.

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Which means... it's not a reviewer nor someone who understands how GR works. Who are the people who run around crying about librarians? Oh that's right, authors.

Sometimes I really like the old bastard. lol

Targeting members of goodreads and targeting them for behavior that is within the goodreads guidelines is a waste of time and could well be seen as bullying too.

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Giggles.

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Well that was fast.

JBG went from humping Unmasked (see the above comments) to complaining about a little competition. WAH! Unmasked stole our info and doesn't possess our fantasy author level prose. We don't trust them. STGRB is the only good hate site out there. Don't be friends with Unmasked. Be our friends instead. Don't even look at the website or FB page. Only look at us. Why doesn't anyone like us anymore?

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Amanda, JBG gave away why STGRB has turned against its baby sister site. Ass kissing the booger blog is apparently required.

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Oh, sweet Melissa. Learn your tells. Just once, pretend you know how to write, kay, kitten?

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An unknown site visitor tipped us off today about a new petition making the rounds. Thanks for that. A chick "thinks" Amazon should change their return policy of books from seven days to 24 hours only. Hint when you start a petition, don´t do it because you simply "think" something is a good idea. Anyway, Chrissy doesn´t make clear why this should be about books only. I am also not sure what "many people" exactly means. She is rather silent on those issues.

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One reason to sign the petition is that writers can´t make money because of Amazon´s return policy, well, according to Sarah anyway. I guess someone has to tell all those H.M. Wards, Liliana Harts or anyone else who makes a decent living from selling their books. Well, doing that now.

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Chrissy is also rather silent on another issues. Does she want Amazon to change their policy for US based customers only? For US based authors only? What does she think? This I do not know, and I suspect none of the so far 1003 whiners who get their panties in a twist either. Coz there is this tiny little problem, mainly that there are EU laws which require a seven day "cooling off" period where any customer can cancel their online purchase, with some exceptions, of non-faulty goods without any reason at all. * Of course the mighty `Zon has to follow US-laws first and foremost, but since they are doing business in the EU they also have to abide by those laws. Or any country in which they are operating as a global concern, obviously.

Also Amazon is collecting a gazillion data of anyone. Which books I look at, and for how long, which books I purchase and which ones I don´t. If their data suggests something will increase customer satisfaction and something will lead to more sales they will do that. Not because someone "thinks" something, or did not like her breakfast or didn´t sleep well.

A dumbed down version via: Returning Unwanted Goods

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* Note: this is by no means legal advice by moi.

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Amanda, not only is the wise one Athena worried, so is her good friend who views writing as merely a hobby. These two really need to sit down and talk out their concerns. Yes, a mirror will be necessary.

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More fun with the "real name" petition, the one nobody cares about anymore after AR got her free publicity. Recent signatures incl. Jessica G, Adam B and Jo Jo from No, MS. It doesn´t get any more real than that, I guess.

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Then there is Sherry Joyce who was "bullied". This truly deserves a gold star for effort.

If people don´t have the decency to post their real name, they should not bully authors.

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Her being "bullied" consists of a single one-star review on Amazon. Out of 63.The commenter on the review has of course a complete blank profile with no activity whatsoever. Big surprise, I know.

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Then there is Leon Robertson.

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While I think the review is nonsensical - your mileage may wary of course - , the dates of the review (April 2006) and the comment by Leon himself (Sept 2008) are far more interesting. Can we say butthurt in 2014?

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Sherry Joyce "reviewed" her own book on Amazon (I reported it): http://www.amazon.com/review/R2TGF8TEIZQT81/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00E8I85OI More interesting is that she only gave it 4 stars, not 5. Maybe she thought she could get away with it, because 5 stars would've been too obvious.

"If people don´t have the decency to post their real name, they should not bully authors."

So, if I use my real name, does that mean I get to bully authors?

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I reported it too. Thanks, Tez.

I'm always amused when asshats whine and draw attention to their bad behavior that's remained on the DL. I almost want to send them thank you baskets. :)