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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
The measures taken by GR don't do anything to authors that decide to go after people who left negative book reviews but stop the reviewers from warning others about them.
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That's just wrong. Members have
always had the option to report any other member (which includes an author) who is being personally abusive toward them. That hasn't changed. And simply
commenting on a negative review (or any review for that matter) by its creator--while definitely ill-advised--does not
automatically qualify as bad behavior, as many people seem to believe.
There never was any inherent right to post reviews without fear of
any sort of comment by its creator. Nor was there any inherent right (or indeed a
need in my eyes) for members to form their own inhouse, watchdog-service charged with issuing a million, one-person, snap-judgments on what qualifies as "author behaving badly" for the purpose of "warning" all other users (through the use of ridiculously unwieldy, overly-accusatory, and largely irrelevant shelf titles).
Use the built-in private messaging feature if you think your friends need warned about someone ... or report abusive behavior to someone who
has been charged with the authority to do something about it.