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Originally Posted by caleb72
This is the same plagiarism thing that sparked a while ago yeah? I'm not sure what I feel about that. I understand you can bring legal action against those who accuse you of it in a public place in a way that you can demonstrate harms your capacity to earn - as long as you can demonstrate that it's not true.
However, if there is truth in it, I'm not sure where you could go.
Were there really threats of harm? I get very suspicious of interpretations of threats these days. I do remember that there seemed to be a free-for-all calling out of the author once it came to light. For a while I started seeing references to it without even looking, but that was a while ago. I can't even remember who the author was.
Ah - drama drama drama. If I ever really did release a book (of which I'm perpetually doubtful), I wonder what crazy shenanigans would ensue. I'm usually very philosophical about these things - might be interesting to see how I personally respond to it. Perhaps I can use my curiosity as motivation.
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There are thousands of us authors who experience little to no drama. Really. You might have to stop reviewing books though as that is sometimes what starts the drama (retaliation one stars, fan mobs, online sniping). In general, it's quite possible to avoid threads where things get out of hand. I've deleted comments from threads when it appears the thread is headed for lynch mobbery. Not that my comments were anything but innocuous, but I don't need to have my name on those threads, and it has nothing to do with me being an author. It's a bit like going to a party and people start snorting drugs in the bathroom. Do I want to stay around until things possibly get dangerous or the cops come so I can be dragged to jail or shall I just collect my belongings and head for safer ground?
There are a few threads on GR that get blown out of proportion. It takes GR staff (which really is incredibly small. It started as a family operation and isn't that much bigger now) a long time to filter through the NUMEROUS threads and complaints they get. Then they have to decide the best action to take. Even Amazon takes a while to review complaints on their forum and often they just delete the comment rather than really bother to understand it if it against the guidelines.
There are a number of blogs that love to follow the excitement on GR and keep these "events" in the "news." That gives them legs way past the sometimes simple events they really are--and it invites more comments to the threads often by new "members" who just want to be a part of things or old members who tend to drift towards these things.
I'm all for it blowing over and people finding some new excitement.