On our last post, we received this comment from Goronwy:
*sigh* here’s another victim I found: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3574046-stay-strong-fellow-writers-stay-strong
Have a nice day.
Thanks, Goronwy! The following post was written by Sharon Desruisseaux. Before we go into it, here it is:
Sharon, we applaud you! You had a tremendous amount of courage to write this. And… wow! Check out Jaq’s comment. We didn’t know about Neil Gaiman. That’s huge.
Now, the common misconception, especially among the bullies, is that this is an author vs. reviewer conflict. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This conflict is really a victim vs. bully conflict. You see, many of the bullies we’ve found are authors themselves and on this blog, we’ve shown you several of them (i.e. Looney, Stacia Kane, Lissa Bilyk, Linda Hilton, etc. For new readers, our posts on these author bullies will be coming soon.) We even have a new author bully post coming up in the next few weeks (research on this person being done now), so this is rather common. The bullies are a combination of readers and authors put together. There is no distinct line between them. There is, however, a distinct line between the bullies and their victims. And we’re hoping to show exactly where that line is in order to keep our readers informed.
So… more to come. Much more to come.
Shorter version: PISS OFF THE GOODREADS TROLLS — KEEP WRITING!
Omg! These trolls really need to get a life! They’ve swarmed in on Sharon’s blogs and are up to their usual nonsense again.
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3574046-stay-strong-fellow-writers-stay-strong
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3589527-one-little-light-in-a-sea-of-darkness
Here’s another good one by Sharon:
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/3594137-really
She’s starting to get it:
When you feed them ANYTHING-they twist it against you and their game is won by damaging a person’s reputation and deflating them. This needs to stop. It is just not right in hurting anyone to the point where they can no longer write or go on this site.
It has been kicking off on Sharon Desruisseaux GR blog the last two days. STGRB gave great advice when you say don’t reply to the trolls. I tried to encourage Sharon not to reply to them, but they were coming on in droves and drawing Sharon etc. into a fight! Thankfully Sharon has now said that she is going to ignore them from now on.
These trolls spread so much poison, they will do anything to draw people into a fight. The only way to deal with them is to ignore them, it takes two people to argue. Its best to leave them to argue with themselves!
Thanks for all your wonderful advice! In the past I would have been in there fighting back, but now I see that only makes things much worse.