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[–]Lilith_Fair 50 insightful - 5 fun50 insightful - 4 fun51 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

Her sales remained strong even when the whole thing broke out. When they went at her after her Twitter posts, I was checking her Amazon sales ranking and she remained on the top of the Amazon Chart. Like, Harry Potter 1 was No.1 on the chart even on the day this whole thing broke out. Also, Amazon has perfected their system to stop one-star review attacks after Hillary Clinton's book came out a few years ago. I noticed that none of JKR's books had been attacked by Operation One-Star Bomb by the mob.

[–]hermiona52 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I absolutely hate this review-bombing mob. It happened with The Last Jedi and lastly with The Last of Us Part II. I just don't get it. If I don't like something I just move on. And I definitely would never rate something I didn't read/watched/played. I just don't get it.

[–]Lilith_Fair 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's another manifestation of cancel culture. Put enough one-star reviews on a book, movie, or show, and other people will believe the product is so bad, they won't buy it anymore. That's the purpose.

ETA: Never mind, my mistake. You said Goodreads, not Amazon. Goodreads can be pretty awful. A few years ago there were some people there who made it a sport to target authors for bullying. They'd one-star authors and leave bad reviews they want to pick on just to get a reaction from the author. If the author can't help by respond, the mob would jump in and pile on. There was a Guardian article about it. Bizarre and eye-opening. I think that's stopped though.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/18/am-i-being-catfished-an-author-confronts-her-number-one-online-critic