`If I get a negative opinion from someone, a 'bad review,' I want them to say they got lost in the sample or got their money back, after they ignored the warning to read the sample. It's real obvious if the books aren't for them, real quick. (Ask Walter. He yelped when he read a sample.) If someone one-stars all my books, I want to know why they want every person who sees it to know they cheat. I'm sure people don't think the person is stupid enough to spend about $200 and read 28.6 million words they don't like.

Books are reviewed. Authors are not. If you want to state a personal opinion of the person, that's what blogs are for. Bottom line, these people are not readers who come to the Meet Our Authors forum to meet authors. The proof is they've been visiting since it was created by Amazon and they don't know any of us. They haven't read our books to learn who we are. By Amazon's TITLE of the Meet Our Authors Forum, [it] is our workplace. We are suffering bullying and threats in our workplace and the petition for real names is for the purpose of nullifying that threat.

The threat does not have to realized for fear to be engendered. Nothing but the intent of threat to cause fear must be proven, but proof is not required. We're not prosecuting a protection racket. They're perceived as a gang hanging around the workplace, waiting to catch a newcomer not warned there are predators in the area, who will destroy the reputation of any author who attracts their attention, for fun. They use that perception, knowingly, and the people who go from [the Meet Our Authors forum on Amazon] to Goodreads and one-star all of an author's books are proof they will carry out the threat. Stated on [that} forum (and probably deleted), they're just 'organizing their shelves.' They one-star all the books by authors they aren't going to read. I have seen them take pleasure in causing pain.

I'm an ethical absolutist. There are no excuses. There is sanity and there is sickness. I have witnessed baiting and entrapment on [the Meet Our Authors] forum. I have seen intent to cause emotional pain and subsequent actions of victimization. I learned we need laws and legislators need aid in defining them. We're on step two, not one, and there are only three.