I particularly like the one commenter (on the DA post) who is trying to be all concern-troll, thinking that it could all have been dealt with "in private and probably effected the same results". Yeah, she's classic.

In her opinion, "it’s being made into a big deal when it really should have warranted no more than a tsking and a roll of the eyes over another author with poor self-control" -- so, check, SHE gets to be the arbiter of how someone who is bullied and harassed should feel and respond. ... But, when ONE other commenter (out of many) responds to *her* in slightly heated terms, instead of just tsking and rolling her own eyes, she rolls up her sleeves and wades in, "outraged" by the implied insults to herself. Mm-hmm.

It's telling, I think, that her first comment says, "Like another commenter suggested, the editor may have been truly unnerved by an angry, and likely belligerent, voice mail..." -- mainly because the "angry" and "likely belligerant" characterizations of the voicemail are her own additions. (She's apparently unable to be fair-minded enough to imagine that NovelReads might be capable of leaving a mildly-worded, completely professional voicemail when calling a publisher to ask for a comment/reaction to outrageous claims attributed to said publisher.)

Perhaps she's just so hopelessly naive that she decided to take Victoria Laurie's characterization of the voicemail at face value. I guess that would fit in with the fact that she believes Jane of DA sending a privately chastizing email to VL would have been just as effective as exposing the author's condescending bullying publicly.