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Originally Posted by lene1949
Comments like that can be shattering to a child... Not that I was ever any good at anything... but I was taught not to speak by my mother, because everything I said was stupid... I took that on board and never voiced my opinion.. Even today at 61, I don't voice my (sometimes) good ideas in a meeting with the group... Rather I will tell one person, and that person will help putting the proposal forward without really involving me.
All this doesn't belong in this thread, but sometimes at get so angry at how she made me feel so inferior.
Rant over.
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I'm sorry to hear about your experience, Lene. It really goes to show the huge impact we can have on each other, and I know after reading this I'll be a little more mindful of being positive about my criticism too. It's sad to think how many great ideas you've had that have been pushed by the wayside. I hope you'll do your best to use your voice in the future.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
I've seen something like this happen on a bunch of books, not necessarily indie. Someone will give what looks like a glowing review to the book in question, then go on to write, "and if you liked this, you'll love INSERT LINK TO OTHER BOOK HERE, which is also a really great read!" And they do it across practically all the books they "review".
The other thing that happens is that people tag completely unrelated books with the name of the author they're essentially spamming.
See this author for a particularly egregious example. She's written only two books, but has personally tagged her own name and her series title across 125 and 113 items respectively, including works by other indie authors as well as professionally published ones.
And she hasn't even done those other indie authors the dubious "favour" of reviewing their books which she's plastered her own into the tags of.
Personally, this is such a turn-off that I'd be strongly tempted to return-tag any authors who do this as "spammer", but they're just not worth it. Thankfully, the majority are generally much better behaved. |
Yikes that's really pretty bad too. It is tempting to do something back, because it does seem like they're asking for it/deserve it. But I know that putting myself back on his radar in this way would only make things that much worse. Right now I have just over 20 reviews, from what I hear he could amass an army of fake usernames to completely drown those out with 1 stars. Even just a couple would cause me big problems. And then there are things he could do on countless other book sites. So I really don't think it's worth it, and I'll wait for Amazon to remove the review...eventually.