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Sep (lord of all I survey) ([info]sepiamagpie) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2012-07-18 03:49:00


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Entry tags:an eye for a light poke, have some fucking decorum!, publishing, sep's last known post

Stalking jackassery! The cure for bullying
Hello, everyone.

There's a site called Goodreads which is a bit like a library, a book review service, and fountain of wank.

This particular sordid tale starts out like promising wank, until the instigators fall off the deep end of wanky into the depths of the pool of 'you are all horrible assholes'.

Summary: Getting a bad review on Goodreads is like being bullied, so the solution these poor beleagured bullying victims come up with is simple: Stalk and terrorize anyone who leaves them a bad review under the guise of 'stopping bullying'.

Here's the links:

Summary of the situation as well as the history which is much more indepth and accurate than what I just said.

Link collection

One of the 'Anti-Bullies' bullying victims. As a reminder, this is all triggered by giving a book a bad review.

QUOTE:

This week, shortly after writing a status update about feeling stalked, I received a call. A woman said, "We can find you, bitch" and then hung up.

Excellent response from one of the targets (see the first link) where she reveals her part pirate heritage and great parenting tips.

Anyway, so that's what's happening in professional publishing this week.

I'm sorry if this loses coherency in parts, I haven't eaten for twelve hours and there's a carpet of slippery comicbooks between me and the fridge. I have to clean, organize, and write down issues before I can eat.

This will be my last known post.


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[info]the__ivorytower
2012-07-18 05:53 pm UTC (link)
SBTB talked about it too, and there's a name-calling fight between someone called Ann Somerville and someone else, plus some 'so can I never respond to my reviewers EVER?' from another commenter named... Kathy?

*digs up link*

Here.

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2012-07-18 07:16 pm UTC (link)
That's Ann Somerville who used to be Tritorella and is now writing original slash.

She used to have her stories up for free on her site but then took the free copies down in favor of ebooks for sale. The quality wasn't bad, and I reviewed them (while they were still free) on my fanfic recommendation site a few years ago, saying (paraphrased) that they were entertaining but that I found the central conflict* unbelievably rose-tinted. She showed up to defend it -- politely, but strongly.

* Lest anyone go "lol she thought a slash story was unrealistic," she seemed to be wanting to write a serious story about war to go along with the romance plot.

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[info]the__ivorytower
2012-07-18 08:17 pm UTC (link)
It's in the comments. She basically calls someone stupid for not having her identical point of view, which is funny considering how she talks about bullying and knowing/not knowing the difference.

I think there's got to be a balancing point between attacking people who review your book (like the author Issendai had who kept calling her Vanessa) and completely ignoring your fandom, because I do know people for whom reading comprehension is a mystery, and I do feel the need to point out how unlikely what they've interpreted is. Of course, I also get ignored, but I tried. (I would be a fellow reader, not a writer in this case)

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[info]ekaterinv
2012-07-19 12:03 am UTC (link)
so can I never respond to my reviewers EVER?

Yup!

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[info]issendai
2012-07-19 01:02 am UTC (link)
The only time you should answer a reviewer is if you know you can change the reviewer's mind.

If you know you can change the reviewer's mind, slap yourself twice, turn off the internet, and go eat potato chips and drink wine in the bathtub until you've forgotten all about it. Because you're wrong.

(If you are right, the reviewer will be a lot more receptive after you've gone through three or four chips-and-wine cycles, dried out, and fortified yourself with kitten pictures.)

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[info]ekaterinv
2012-07-19 03:31 am UTC (link)
After all that, you must engrave your response in cuneiform on a tablet of lemon jade. You must take this tablet to the top of the highest building in your city, then read it aloud while doing an interpretive strip-tease.

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[info]issendai
2012-07-19 05:12 am UTC (link)
...Okay, if an author did that, I'd not only retract my review, I'd date them. Because hey, striptease and jade and cuneiform, do you know how hard that is? Eeee geeklove cuneiform.

...Ahem.

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