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Originally Posted by meeera
A particular set of authors has already doxxed at least one reviewer and published information on where she and her family hung out IRL and could be found.
That's the sort of behaviour some reviewers are sharing, in the hope that future potential readers might avoid interacting with or posting a negative review on books with authors who behave that way.
None of this is in any way comparable to a lynch mob. There's really no need to co-opt a violent racist past (or mostly-past) in order to talk about this sort of non-racist behaviour.
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Not sure if they were called a lynch mob or not, but it brings to mind all the villagers with their pitchforks chasing Frankenstein's monster.
But what use is a review/book recommendation site if people are put off leaving negative reviews if they think that's what the book deserves? A lot of writers are mentally unhinged in some way, that's why they write. Doesn't mean they will always lash out, more than likely it would just be their first negative review that makes them do that.
Anyway, without the change what would have stopped a writer from putting themselves on such a list just so they will only get positive reviews?