This post we published on July 31, 2012.
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We just received this screengrab from a site visitor of Ridley telling authors at RWA that if they join any of her groups, she will destroy them:
This is a perfect example of the behavior and attitude of Ridley and her GR friends towards authors.
“Authors, I will destroy you.” That says it all really, what a messed-up individual! I was really surprised to read that Ridley is female, I always thought Ridley was a bloke!
It is a pity these trolls couldn’t find something better to do with their time like charity work or something worth while, even stamp collecting! But instead they spend hours upon hours trolling the internet looking for someone to fight with! Ugh!
Oh and they seem to spend an unhealthy amount of time on this site (STGRB). They go on & on & on & on about how much they hate STGRB and yet they never stop talking about it! They even have a thread on Amazon called STGRB!!!
Remember the troll who tried to log on to STGRB something like 40 times in one hour!!! But they couldn’t log on because they were blocked. Hehehe!!! I can guess who that was! They are obsessed!!!
I have the Amazon trolls to thank for finding STGRB, I’d never heard of this site until I heard them going on about it a few months ago. They do a great job a promoting this site, so at least they are doing something worthwhile! YAY!!! Although they are trying to get all friendly with me lately, using my name as if they know me, weird and creepy lot! Ugh!!!
You’re right, Gill. They do a good job of promoting this site. It’s how a lot of people have found us. Hehe. I remember when we first started, we made a few posts and weren’t going to advertise our site until we were ready, but someone from Ridley’s camp got a hold of our url (we have no idea how) and they began spreading it around. Within in the following two days after that, our site had around 25,000 hits. It spread like wildfire. It was crazy.
Link to an interesting bully review on Amazon someone told me about. At least this time two people commented and argued the point with the reviewer. I wish everyone would do this when they see bully reviews.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R25DLS979AWM1E/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B007SIECN8&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=133140011&store=digital-text#wasThisHelpful
Good find!
This one is pretty surreal
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1MAFC346GAQGP/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B005GG0M9W&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=#wasThisHelpful
Here’s an interesting post from a successful author about why she replies to book reviews. She wrote multiple posts about this for Digital Book World. On one of them (I think the second post here), she goes into more depth for her reasons. Of course, Ridley and her cohorts jump in and start berating the author, who continues to behave respectfully. The owner of DBW finally deleted some of Ridley’s posts and reprimanded her and the other bullies about behaving respectfully (something they clearly are incapable of doing). It shows how ridiculous and insane these bullies are so clearly!
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/when-you-wish-upon-a-star-you-get-the-pointy-end-why-authors-should-always-respond-to-negative-reviews/
Any of Ridleys posts that I have read seem to start with the word “Well” or something similar. So from the very first word you know this person is pointing the finger and rearing for a fight.
I rarely read past the first sentence of her comments, but the odd time that I have gone on to read a paragraph or two, the comment seems to be filled with things like “me”, “I”, “Mine”, “my opinion”, “you are wrong”, “Author is an stupid”, and “Crap book”.
Ridley has to be a troll, no one is that negative ALL the time.
Thanks for the link. Interesting and well thought out article.
It’s obvious Ridley was itching for a fight. She obviously has nothing better to do with her time. I actually feel sorry (just a smidgen) for her. What must it be like to be filled with so much angst all the time?