Targeting Tucker Reed

It would appear as though the bullies over at "Bullylikes" are getting a bit restless this holiday season. That or they're just getting an itch in their "jingle bells". They have a new victim in their sights, and that victim is author Tucker Reed.

Evidently, Tucker has violated one of the "bully rules of author conduct", and are now planning a date rape on her books, I'm sure.

I tried searching for Tucker on Goodreads, but nothing came up, and the bullies haven't revealed what she has "allegedly" done for the bullies to target her. Maybe she asked a question? Then again, we have seen plenty of times that authors don't have to do anything really to be targeted by these swine. One thing is for certain, they are working up a plan to do something.

At least "Amaranth" admits to "following" her. I think what she meant to say is, "stalking". That's what they do best. They have a lot of time on their hands.

Notice any other familiar names? (Or should I say, name?) O_o

So if you're reading this, Tucker Reed, know that for whatever reason, the "morality police" has you on their radar of hate. But I wouldn't worry too much, I mean, it's not like you're dealing with the top of the intellectual ladder here. See for yourself. In this next screenshot, one of the bullies tries to rewrite the lyrics of popular classic song called, "Good Ship Lollipop". 

You know, I'm feeling kind of bad right now. All this time I have been accusing the bullies of acting 12 years old when in fact, that number is probably more around the 9-ish area. 

Anyhow, "isanythingopen" confesses to having trouble finding words to rhyme with the word, "review". Perhaps I can be of some assistance. 

Stew, flu, two, to, too, blue, clue, who?, flew, shoe, drew, woohoo!, glue, grew, shoo, Timbucktoo, Calamazoo, poo, pooh?, and my personal favorite,  whoopdee-freaking-do.

Yeah, "isanythingopen" is correct, it is hard to rhyme the word "review" ..... provided, of course, that you haven't any talent other than the special gift of bullying. (And she gots a ton of that.)

And what do some of the bullies think about their bully friend's special talent? Well, see for yourself. You might be surprised. Then again, maybe you won't. 

Yes! "All Hail Grimlock" (I mean, Shoshana Bick) loves those adolescent poems. Even "Sock Puppet At Play" exclaims, "Brilliant songs!" 

Yes! They are brilliant songs! Magnificent in fact! And to think, she came up with it all by herself! Amazing! I don't know about all of you, but I am super-duper impressed with the manner in which "isanythingopen" overcame her rhyming problem to pen the most brilliant piece of work since, "If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands". 

So you see Tucker Reed, this is what you would be up against should these blubbering wet farts decide to run down your leg, if they haven't already. It will be like "Romper Room" all over again. I am pretty sure you can outwit these snot balls fairly easy. Just be gentle with them if you can, and don't be too surprised if they pen another master piece to attack you with that sounds a little bit like, "Itsy Bitsy Spider". 

I can't wait for that one to come out!

I'm Carroll Bryant ..... and ... I'm almost at a loss for words. 

(Almost) 

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On the good ship "bullylikes"

All the bullies look for a fight

So they can talk, talk, talk

After they stalk, stalk, stalk

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Another master piece! 

Goodreads: Or Good Pedophilia? (The Book)

I have been reading some bully comments lately that have been posted on Booklikes and Goodresds as well as other places, like the bully blogs and such. Much of their discussions revolved around the question of, "Whi is going to give a shit about me being stalked? And author attacks on Goodreads? Carpet bombing, fraudulent API and the like?

That was a very good question. Who will give a shit? Probably not too many.

 

This is when I began to realize that I had to turn the focus away from me and turn it to another direction. But what direction? Then it dawned on me that there are far more important issues that I could focus on, one of which is the sexually explicit role play groups involving adults and minors on Goodreads. I mean, I still have plenty more screenshots on file that I never used for my articles covering that issue. I could use some of those shots for the book. I could also tell my personal story within the book, and still mention all of the other things going on, but only reveal those things as a secondary backdrop to the real problem. The real issue. The most important story of them all. The dangers that children face on Goodreads to online child predators. I could even use the Karl Jones story as a prime example to my point.

 

And so, I have decided to change the title (and the focus) of my book from "Goodreads: Meet Your Next Stalker", to, "Goodreads: Or Good Pedophilia?".

 

Basically, it's the same book telling the same story only, with a much more enticing title for all of those who still haven't heard about the sexual role plays on Goodreads. I figure anyone who stumbles across that title would be more inclined to read the book than if it was just a book about internet stalkers and bullies. Not to mention, it would also bring more interested and concerned readers to my article of the same title. Pretty clever, huh?

 

So I am sending out my thanks to the Goodreads / Amazon / Booklikes "Bully Nation" for giving me something to think about. I totally agree with you in that no one is really going to care about me being stalked or bullied or any other author for that matter. But people just might be interested in the dangers children face from online child predators that are lurking on Goodreads in sexual role play groups. It is, after all, way more important than everything else that is going on. Wouldn't you agree?

 

I also believe that the ads and promotion I will be putting behind this book when it is released will draw much more interest too. Thanks again bullies, I knew I could count on you to steer me in the right direction. Well done.  

 

 

I'm Carroll Bryant .... and this is The Looking Glass.

 

 

 

Devourer Of Books: Autumn Reads

I want you to meet Autumn. No, I am not going to post her picture. I'm not even going to post her blog, Booklikes or personal. I'm only going to post some of what she said.

ABOUT ME.

You see, a link to her Booklikes account showed up in my stats. I clicked the link and it took me to her. She seems a little miffed at me because of my last post. ("Booklikes Supports Bullying: CEO Unprofessional")

In one post, she talks about how she was bullied through school. I'm sorry to hear that Autumn. I really am. She also talks about how two wrongs don't make a right. I agree. Totally! 

To a point.

Anyhow, here are some screenshots of what she said in the post that links to this blog. 

Here is my response to Autumn.

Dear Autumn,

When I was in school, I never had to deal with bullies from a "being bullied" perspective. They always stayed away from me because I was a scrapper. Not going around looking to get into fights kind of scrapper, but always found myself standing up for those who couldn't, or wouldn't stand up for themselves kind of scrapper. 

Whenever I saw someone else getting picked on or bullied, I felt bad for them. I always wondered why nobody would help them. I could always see the fear and the hurt in their eyes. That got to me. So I took it upon myself to always help defend others who got bullied. Had you and I gone to the same school, and I would have saw bullies picking on you, there is no doubt in my mind that I would have stepped in and stopped it. 

You say you never fight bullying by becoming a bully. I agree. Which is why I don't bully. But I do and I will and I have gotten in their faces. defending yourself from a bully or from being bullied isn't bullying. It's standing up for yourself. 

Yes, I had to fight a lot of bad people in my life. More than I care to have. I wish I never had to fight bullies or bad people, but sometimes, you just have to. Violence never solved anything, yet, it sends  a powerful message to those who use violence to try and hurt others or to obtain something, whatever that something might be. Sometimes, the only way to stop bullying, is to fight back. The only exception to this that I can think of off hand is probably Jesus. But here's the thing, I'm not Jesus. 

In your blog post, you call me a bully because I support STGRB. or because I stand up to the bullies. Fine. You have the right to your opinion, be it right or worng. But what STGRB is doing is not bullying the bullies. Nor am I. We are exposing the bullies, and showing to the world what they are doing to others in hopes that by giving them this exposure, they will stop. 

The only time I have ever been personally bullied is when I was a member of Goodreads. And Goodreads didn't do anything to stop it. What they did instead to me, and others before and after me, was ban them. yes, they banned the victims. And for that, I hope they are proud of themselves.

But the bullying didn't stop there for me. They also followed me to my blogs and stalked me and harassed me there as well. They also sent me emails posing as other people to continue the stalking and harassment. They also tried to sabotage interviews that I was setting up for my blog. They left me death threats. They accused me of things I wasn't guilty of. They purposely lied to try and hurt my image, reputation and book sales. And so much more. 

But if you didn't stand up to your bullies, then that was your decision. I wish somebody would have stood up for you. But for you to judge me for standing up to my bullies is a little judgmental on your part, don't you think? I'm not going to condemn you for not giving in to your fear and standing up to your bullies, so why do you choose to condemn me for standing up to mine? And for trying to help prevent someone else from falling victim to them? 

You mentioned that you were a proud "Dawidiot", and referring to my post as garbage. (Are you sure you were bullied in school?) And that's fine. Again, you have the right to your opinion. However, when I used the term "Dawidiot", I wasn't projecting that to anyone who isn't a bully, I was projecting it to the bullies. Only a bully would know that I was referring to them. Only a bully knows they are a bully in their heart. My question to you is: Why did you think I was referring to you? Do you see yourself as a bully in your heart? Well, that's between you and your conscience. 

Be that as it may, exposing bullies, and holding them accountable for their bully actions is not bullying itself. That would be like saying, a law enforcement officer is a criminal for holding criminals accountable for their crimes. Or saying that our prosecutors are criminals for filing charges against criminals. Or saying that our judges are criminals for convicting criminals for their crimes. 

Standing up to bullies, like I do, does not make me a bully. It makes me anti-bullying. Maybe I don;t go about it in the passive manner that you chose to deal with it, but you also have to understand, most of the bullies I am standing up against are grown adults who choose to act like children and go around bullying people. Worse than that, they do it like cowards while hiding on the internet. 

So go ahead and continue to judge me, Autumn, if that is the kind of person that being bullied has made of you. That is your choice now as you are an adult. Two wrongs certainly do not make a right, but maybe if I'm lucky, it will make the bullies stop, or hopefully, go away. If I'm lucky, by me being wrong in standing up against these cyber bullies, maybe nobody else down the road will become their next victim. That's my goal. What's your goal?

You said it yourself that you tried to stand your ground at one point and learned that it doesn't do any good. Well guess what? That's because you have had experience with bullies. This is my first time. Instead of judging me and assuming I was calling you a "Dawidiot", you could have reached out to me with your story and your experience and perhaps, done some good. Instead, you sought out to make a post in an attempt to try and humiliate me further like the rest of the bullies. You took it upon yourself to judge me prematurely. An opportunity for you to teach has turned into garbage. Nice going. 

Best of luck to you and your future. Let's hope we both learn something positive from this experience. And if another opportunity comes along for us to teach another, let's hope we both do a much better job at it. I might not be doing things the right way, but I am trying to do the right thing. Or at least, what is right to me in my heart, and what I believe in. I would think of all people, someone like you, Autumn, would see that.

I'm Carroll Bryant .... and this is The Looking Glass. 

Things We Learned Today:

* Autumn and Carroll both suck at teaching others what they have learned

 * Two wrongs don't make a right, but it might help to make things better

* Carroll is standing up to the bullies in hopes to prevent others from being bullied in the future

* Judge not lest thee be judged

* Exposing the bullies is not bullying

* Standing up to bullies is not bullying

* Opinions are like assholes, everybody is one

* Only Jesus was perfect, the rest of us are not

* Booklikes does support bullying

  

Booklikes supports bullying; CEO Unprofessional

Ever since the mass exodus of bullies from Goodreads to Booklikes, it's been quite a shit storm, hasn't it? The bullies departing GR and leaving carpet bombs in their wake, throwing their finger up at Goodreads, and some of them openly announcing that they aren't going to play by the new rules that GR has laid out. Oh yes, it has been a ............. Wait! It gets better.

In the beginning, it almost appeared that Booklikes CEO, Dawid Piaskowski, was going to keep tabs on these bullies. Almost! This is a comment he left on Rick Carufel's blog recently.

 The first question in my mind was, "Who does he think the trolls are? Me and STGRB and our supporters, or the people joining his site from Goodreads?

Well, it didn't take long for an answer. 

If you knew the STGRB story, Dawid, then you would know by the evidence they have presented clearly shows who the people are that are trolling, bullying, lying, carpet bombing, stalking and breaking cyber laws by attempting to hack into people's accounts on GR and emails, etc. 

Don't be such a Dawidiot!

But then, in a recent post on Booklikes by a girl named Anna, she goes off on a rant trying to wonder why, and how, she ended up on STGRB's BBB list. (Badly Behaving Booklikers).

Well Anna, STGRB doesn't put people on their list willy-nilly. You had to have done something that led them to do so. Something you thought they would never catch. But even if it were because you associate with the likes of the bullies, that alone is good enough for me. You and your friends do it to authors, so why can't we pay the favor back? If you and your friends see an author who happens to like another author who is on your shit list, (book shelf) you and your friends attack that innocent author and their books. Dare I say it? ..... Welcome to the REAL world? 

But speaking of real world, here is something real for you guys to read. A comment by Dawid to all of his Dawidiots, check it out. 

Really Dawidiot? Your users bully people and if those people they bully stand up against them, it's the same as standing up against you? Do you actually think you're going to do something about it? ... Really? .... Have you seen your pic lately dude? You're like, 5 foot 9 inches tall, maybe 190 pounds. You look like you're 50 something. What in the heck do you think you are going to do about it? Take off your shirt and trousers and shadow kick box in front of the crowd in your pink thongs? And that's supposed to be intimidating? 

"Hey look, everyone, Mr. Clean is ..... OMG! Hell to the no! .... That's not right!" 

It would appear as if Dawidiot is getting himself personally involved with the situation, and on top of it, he is picking the wrong side. ..... But why? Why be so unprofessional if you're a CEO of a ...... Yes! That's it! Just as I predicted, he is using the bullies to gain attention for Booklikes so that he can move up the web rankings, make his money and then ..... like GR .... dump on the bullies and make like a super-hero. 

Of course, he's trying to be a super-hero now, but dude, you have to replace those pink thongs for something more manly. Maybe some boxers? 

So if anyone was thinking that by leaving Goodreads and going to Booklikes was going to be a positive change, think again. Mr. Dawidiot is obviously making it clear that he and Booklikes support the bullies and trolls. You're better off staying on GR and waiting out the clean up process, at the very least. 

But I say, great! If all the bullies vacate GR and go to BL then we could have two book sites, one for real readers (GR) and one for bullies, trolls and carpet bombers, (BL) where everyday can be a bully day with Dawid and the Dawidiots. (Sounds like a punk band, doesn't it?) Ha! A PUNK band, get it? Because you know, the bullies ... are .... punks? .... Never mind. 

I kill me sometimes!

I'm Carroll Bryant .... and this is The Looking Glass.

Things We Learned Today:

* Booklikes found its audience, and it chooses bullies and trolls

* It's unprofessional for a CEO to get personally involved like that

* Pink thongs are not manly

* Neither is shadow kick boxing in them 

* Booklikes is now the official home of Dawid and the Dawidiots

* BL is BS

* Most punk bands rock! ... BL punks do not 

 

 

 

Booklikes: Dawid Piaskowski

In the past few days, Mr. Piaskowski, of the website Booklikes.com, has been visiting some blogs. (STGRB and RICK'S INDIE PUBLISHING BLOG) He's leaving comments and trying to explain Booklikes position where the bullies are concerned.

While most of the questions center around the API issue, Mr. Piaskowski explains that this shouldn't be an issue. His explanation to solving the bully problem is that all one has to do is report potential bullies (or trolls) to his staff and they will be "investigated" to determine their "bully" or "troll" status. Take a look.

While that all seems well and good, a couple of my questions would be, if you already know about STGRB and you're responding on their blog, and you already know that STGRB is legitimate, why would you need people to report the "trolls"? Why not just save yourself some time and go through the bully list that STGRB has already provided and start watching those people and catching them yourself? Why do you need others to report these people to you? Couldn't you just utilize that list STGRB provides and watch the hard core violators yourself?

STGRB already recommends that everybody stay away from these trolls. I'm sure most people do. So in essence, most people are not going to go looking for the people listed on STGRB's list on Booklikes. Heck, many "legitimate" readers may not even join because of the trolls. But Mr. Piaskowski and staff could use that list and go look at these people's posts and make a commonsense determination from that to decide if any action is warranted. They could also send a clear cut message that this kind of adolescent abuse of their site isn't going to be tolerated.

Another question that comes to mind is, why not just delete the offensive material? It doesn't take a genius to know who these people are and what their intentions might be. They've made themselves obviously clear. Their blatant disrespect for the rules stands out like a sore thumb. Forget the API concerns for a moment and let's just concentrate on basic human decency.

When Mr. Piaskowski says these people and their BL account / blogs will be labeled as "troll", does this mean anytime someone goes to their blog there will be a label of some kind that will appear and say "TROLL"?

Something just isn't clicking here, and I got to thinking, (something of which I may do way too often) but what if, and this is just a "what if", but what if Mr. Piaskowski is going to try and pull an Otis Chandler?

By that I mean, how do we know that Mr. Piaskowski isn't going to use the bullies to move BL up the website rankings and haul in the big bucks that surely would accompany it? Then, once you get to a certain height, start addressing the issue?

Otis Chandler and Gooodreads made their money at the expense of bullied authors. The financial loss of all authors who were attacked, along with their books, on Goodreads was Otis Chandler's gain. He knew it then while it was happening and he knows it now in hindsight. Who is to say that Mr. Piaskowski and Booklikes aren't now taking that same approach?

You either condone what the bully trolls are doing, or you don't. If you allow them to get away with what they have been getting away with for so long on Booklikes as they have on Goodreads, then in my eyes, you condone that behavior.

Make no mistake, what GR is doing now to address the issue is only because they have nothing to lose. Otis already made his money, and now he gets to look like some kind of Saint for finally attacking the issue. The truth is, by allowing it to go on for so long as he did, he clearly doesn't have a problem with fraudulent ratings and reviews, and if Mr. Piaskowski is going to allow the same thing to happen on BL, then he hasn't a problem with these trolls either.

Well, not until he makes his money, I suppose.

While I can appreciate what Mr. Piaskowski is trying to say and do, the best course of action is usually the most logical, and that is, nip it in the bud. Delete the abusive content right from the start and or delete the abusers. Earn your money the right way, not off the sacrifice of Indie book sales by allowing these bully ratings and reviews on your site to begin with. 

This is "man up" time right here, not three years from now when you pocket millions of dollars after selling out to the next Amazon. 

I'm Carroll Bryant .... and this is The Looking Glass.

Things We Learned Today:

* You know what you learned today

Book Likes: An Alternative to Goodreads

So if you're like many people who are sick and tired of dealing with bullies on Goodreads, then I might have some good news for you. There is a book website that you might want to look into. They are Called Book Likes.com.

I plan on joining soon and will take a good look around. Once I get a feel for it, I will do another post regarding them. Meanwhile, maybe you would like to give them a shot for yourself.