It seems the only person over Lauren Howard’s PMS is Lauren Howard. Too bad she’s so bored by all this that she won’t own up to the mess she has created.
GoodReads has a group, Mysteries & Crime Thrillers, it is a sizable group having 8,800 members yesterday. But today? Down to 4,000 and dwindling. Edit: It seems I mixed up the number of members with the other mystery group. So while I know of three people who were admitted then kicked out I am now not certain how many members have been blocked.
What happened you ask, well it seems the moderators of the group and a few of their friends have decided that if you don’t agree that Lauren Howard’s ‘reactions have been thoughtful, considered, and gentle, and her behaviour has been faultless” then they will at the least delete your opposing post and perhaps delete you from the group.
Indeed, one member is using the lists off that site to block people who will probably never even try to join, She admits that if she doesn’t approve of your shelves, your reviewing style, groups you belong to, or your language then she will block you.
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Literary news, Films, the Theatre, the Arts, Gossip, Free Fiction & Mystery Podcasts… Everything that entertains. We even have an Agony Aunt to support our members. Enjoy all things literary and never miss a thing again.
http://www.facebook.com/mysteriescrim…(less)
Did you see anything about worshipping at the feet of someone who has walked away from the mess she created? No? Neither did I.
Here’s the rules:
You have to love reading them.
Please put your thoughts down with reasonable grammar (not deliberate text speak) though the writing need not be perfect.
Use decent language; no swear words please. No sexually explicit posts please though adult books/romances can be discussed normally.
Personal attacks on posters will not be allowed. Be nice. :^)
Nasties’ posts will be deleted and the user removed by an automatic site cleaning program.
Still no mention of Lauren. So this is an arbitrary decision on the part of the mods. And this is wrong and this is bullying. A mod can have all the opinions he or she wants but when you impose them on an entire membership and you ignore the group rules to do so you are a bully, no, you are a dictator.
You are there to enforce the rules even on yourself, you are there to encourage growth and participation not stifle free speech and make your members too afraid to disagree, you serve your group, your group does not serve you.
If you want a group where everyone meets your personal criteria, then form one. You don’t take a group with a specific stated purpose and gut it for your personal pleasure. You want to block certain people from joining? Go ahead, if it’s your own private group that is fine but your group is public and you are undertaking a mass blocking of the public because you know that they will disagree with you. Let me assure you that none of us on that list wants to be in any group with the likes of you , we have standards, we prefer friends to servants.
It must be hell to be so scared of a different opinion that you will engage in actions that make most people back away from you in disgust.
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.-Emile Zola
It’s a beautiful quote, isn’t it? There you are burying the truth of Lauren’s actions for some reason I can’t begin to understand, better to face the truth than to try to hide it because it scares you or it doesn’t suit your goals. You are only delaying a possibly painful, maybe humiliating, and definitely messy situation in your probably not too distant future.
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I think it’s lame they shut down the group, I don’t agree with the drama that is going on, but come on – if it’s a public group anything goes. Everyone knows the internet is an open battlefield!
I have been a long term member of this group. All they ever had was 4000 odd members; they never grew bigger than that. They just went above 4000 a week ago and celebrated the event of reaching 4000 members with a new post on August 17:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1454679-race-to-5k-challenge—win-15-amazon-gift-card
What is your source they had 8800 members? They wish they had that many!
They only blocked the STGRB site list (http://www.stopthegrbullies.com/badly-behaving-goodreaders/) and a few others giving 1* on Lauren’s book thread, about 200 members, over this weekend. And that only after they started spamming a thread on bullying.
You must have mistaken them for some other group or site with more than 5000 members, just because they had a live discussion thread on bullying on the group page.
Spamming, would that be anything like sending the same message three times in ten minutes, Ashton? Edit: Sorry, Ashton. Ashton was not spamming me, he was just an innocent victim of his computer’s warped sense of humour. Been there, suffered that. Sorry.
If you go back you will notice that I edited my post to correct the numbers.
That is the only thing I’m mistaken about. Your blocked list? Yes, I’m on it because I’m on that site’s blocked list. Evidently if you hold an opinion stronger than a cup of weak tea you can get on their list and on yours. Your mods are no mods at all. Their behavior is disgraceful. They have no idea why people are on that list or how any of them would behave in your company.
Though now I’m pretty sure how any of us would behave in your company would be to leave. You are really no different from that site, you have taken someone’s lie and made it your truth. Now, get off my blog.
You forgot to mention that the dictator…I mean,super mod, Jenni Wickham, was actually author Jac Wright. Who goes by several aliases all over the Internet, including, but not limited to, Jenni Wickham, Jenni Wright, T.M Mason, and of course, Jac Wright.
The MC&T groups FB page is currently run by Jenni Wickham, though Jac Wright comments from her own author page often.
Also, that she was deleted from GRs for abusive behavior, breaking TOS and encouraging the entire group to break TOS by attacking reviewers (of Jac Wrights books, no less) and mass flagging of legitimate reviews and innocent users, on both GRs and Amazon.
Oh, and after she was banned from GRs, Jenni aka Jac opened seven, yes seven, identical profiles in an attempt to circumvent her lifetime ban. Didn’t work though and GRs deleted all seven of those accounts, too.
I’m sure it didn’t help that she informed another banned author by email of her plans and had those emails posted on the other banned authors blog. Not the brightest bulbs, this bunch.