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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
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I enjoy a good controversy as much as anyone, but if it is as bad as Blossom indicates, then I can't see any way of recovery without deleting all threatening and personal rudeness. And an authors politics or religion should not be attacked in a book review. The law generally grants them the right to hold these views or I doubt anyone would know about them. You can't discriminate legally on grounds of a persons beliefs, race or sex etc. Discouraging others from buying a book on these and other grounds is discrimination IMO. We aren't talking something as serious as a pogrom, but sounds like it might be awfully close in severity as gay bashing for instance.
Hope I am not being totally off topic here.
Helen
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You made some excellent points. Where to start. This group I mention have mentioned that GR is reading their blog. So if true and it sure looks that way I know there is some influence going on there. How much is pure speculation. Goodreads is now own by Amazon. Amazon needs to hire people to clean up the site because right now it is run mostly by volunteers.
Goodreads is such a big site you could participate regularly doing all the things there is to do and never come across any of the drama. However if you follow certain blogs from a certain genre *cough Romance *cough* you can help but step it in when happens for that genre. If you follow the STGB blog you see way too much of it.
There are reviewers who take it too far. Who love witch hunts and love to ruin an author over stupid stuff. They have a large following who will jump when they say go get 'em.
Then you have this blog of authors who are super sensitive and report every single reviewer they feel isn't nice and the list is HUGE. Some are called for some are not. You have Goodreads in the middle of all this pretending none of this is going on.
All of sudden you got Goodreads going after these reviewers some good and some really bad because this blog and followers are taking advantage of the new guidelines and someone over at GR has their ear or is reading the blog and taking their word for it.
When GR first announce the changes I was like YES finally the really bad ones will go and most have so that goal is accomplished but alot of good people are being caught in the crossfire of this secret war.
Now this blog is over at Booklikes and starting their reporting about it. This isn't about who is right or wrong this blog has a personal vendetta going against a list of reviewers.