The Trolls Are Back So I Could Use A Little Fan Support

2/15/2019

The previous post is below and the newest information about the trolling group we are calling the IAK or Indy Author Killer Guild and their activity is listed in many of the comments below. Several fans have been reporting in the worst of the abuses of new Indy Authors releasing their books only to be slammed with nasty reviews. While many of the names are the same, others are not. After being called out or having their nasty reviews pulled, many of the group now seems to be using secondary accounts.

Honestly, I never knew about this until I started writing. I enjoyed going to the facebook LitRPG & GameLIT groups to look for new and interesting titles to check out and read. I didn't realize that there was a group that was trying to get you to only read their stuff and to block everyone else. Now though, I realize that this, unfortunately, is a thing.

Looking at the profile of the people bashing these new writers usually show you either a history of trolling one or two stars review with only a handful of good reviews for their friends or their secondary accounts with only one to three reviews. Due to my calling out these trolls on my own books and pointing them to this blog posting, many of them have started making their profiles private so no one can see their previous trolling activities.

On my own novels, the accusations of plagiarize that they initially used to attack me has now been replaced by accusations of the misogyny treatment of women, rape, harem relationships, uninteresting story lines, unrealistic characters/relationships and a douche MC that reflects a douche author. It doesn't matter if the posts are accurate to the story or not, what's important is the reduction of the book's rating and their hope to find something that will stop new readers from enjoying the stories. Yeah, that's the funny thing about trolling. Nothing you say has to be true in any way.

I'm probably making myself more of a target since I encourage fans to point out the trolling group and their activities whenever they can. I also encourage people to talk about it to their friends in the LitRPG community. I also do my best to inform the authors being slammed that these are not fans, but a group of authors, editors and friends who purposely target Indy Authors. Not to mention, I call out the GameLit and LitRPG facebook groups that defend trolling activities. While Aleron Kong had the cajones to remove the questionable negative videos from his LitRPG channel https://www.reddit.com/r/GameLit/comments/a1zpoo/author_and_reviewer_ramon_mejia_banned_from/ many of the other LitRPG and GameLIT groups have not and openly support the negative activities on their channels.

Also, don't be a fan that supports one of the authors they bash. If you say anything, your jumped on by a group of jackals and your post removed. The funny thing, in these channels you are told that activities such as that are not allowed, but they are if your friends with the right moderators and admins. I tend to tell my own fans to not say anything in the social media groups and just voice their preference by leaving reviews on Amazon for the authors they love.

When you take the groups activities in total, I honest don't understand how anyone could spend their days trolling to the extent that they do. Maybe it's because I'm not a huge social media person. Except for my minor blog and facebook postings, I don't do much in the way of social media for the most part. It something that I have to actually push myself to do since it takes time away from doing creative things like writing and time from my family.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would think that these guys are being sponsored to do this as a job for some hidden group. Maybe, there isn't some shadowy organization behind them and they just do this, because trolling others makes them feel powerful. Still, I'd argue in favor of a hidden group being behind this. Otherwise, the amount of time it takes to do what they do on a daily basis doesn't make any sense to me on any other level.

The only way to fight these people are to make sure you leave reviews for your favorite authors. You taking the time to voice your opinion on Amazon reviews combats their trolling activities and keeps the stories you like coming out in new books. I also hope that at some time the community in general will stop these people's nefarious trolling activities and they'll be called out whenever they start. Maybe that is like wishing on a shooting star, but one can hope people will stand up to this kind of crappy behavior.

Too bad Amazon didn't go after these trolls as they do with any friends or family member of an author that wants to leave an Indy Author a good review. Amazon blocks anything like that nearly 100% but the trolling groups are not even looked at even though such activities are supposed to be against Amazon Communities terms of service.

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(These previous reviews were either successfully blocked or were pulled and then were put back reworded with the same stars)
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Hey, looks like that small group of LitRPG writers and friends are still going after me with the hate. Check these guys out:
Plagiarized on book 1:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1U5GH5Q98U740/ref=cm_cr_othr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B07NBX4ZBS

Plagiarized, same guy on book 4:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R336L0NXTS18NR/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B07H35XRLZ

Plagiarized on book 1:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RK7E863LX9HEB/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B07H35XRLZ

Rape, same guy on book 4 but at least he mixed it up somewhat:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1BKR3OQ01ZG92/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B07NBX4ZBS

If you want to make an official complaint to Amazon, you can do that here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/features-and-services.html They take readers' reports better than authors' reports.

Oh, or this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RJMRKQQ7N4SRR/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B07NBX4ZBS where Startum is now an emasculate soyboy. What's funny, if you read the rest of the review it contradicts itself.

Who would have thought that they'd pull this against book 1 and book 4? There are a few others doing the hate. Book 1 got a few taps of troll luv too.

I guess an Indy Writer can't be successful without getting trolling attacks by other authors. It would be helpful to report these people in as the haters they are with that click of a button if you have a moment. The 'Report Abuse' is right under the review ;)

Some, like this one for book one 'Doesn't understand mmorpg's' https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R17XN80MZ1QUDE/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B07H35XRLZ are almost funny. At least it would be if it wasn't being used to bash me.

Anyway, this was their most recent attack has knocked book 1 back down to 4.2 from 4.3 and book 4 from 4.7 to 4.4 I guess people are liking both books just a little too much and they had to try to find a way to stop people from enjoying my series. This is why I'm always asking people to leave a good review whenever you can.

61 Comments

Jason A Cheek link

2/16/2019 12:31:29 am

Woohoo, one of the trolls nasty reviews on book 1 was pulled! Appreciate the support everyone! It instantly brought the book back up to 4.3 stars.

Tim Comerford

2/19/2019 07:37:54 pm

Hey Jason,
I am enjoying your series. I have been a fan of LitRPG for some time now starting with D. RUS and have actually contacted Vasily Mahanenko. I am a retired Sailor (Photojournalist) and sent him a cover from USS Mahan. Let me tell you one thing. Keep writing. People gonna hate. The fact that they hate you may make you want to punch babies, but just let the troll lay in their cave. Besides, the more people who hate you means you are and individual and that you are standing up for yourself. If everyone loves you it means that you are either ineffectual or wish washy. Shit, man, i wouldn’t even care if an idea was taken from something else as long as you present it in your own kickass way. I would only have A problem if you started saying Drizzt do’Urden is your character. He isn’t. He’s mine, for my upcoming series (doh! Just kidding)
Cool to learn you are learning German, Das ist nicht zu schlecht. Dang that was hard to write with auto correct.

Anyways I am in Charlotte NC working on my BS in computer science with a concentration in network security. Thought that was kinda cool that you are doing somewhat the same digs.

Haben Sie einer guten tag. Aufwiedersehn.
Tim

2/20/2019 05:09:18 am

Hey Tim, thanks for the good word. I'm through dealing with those trolls now. I figured when they stuck their necks out so much trying to attack me that I'd make sure to take a swing at their necks. Several fans are calling them the AK Guild (Author Killer Guild).

Anyway, I love the retired military and am ex-Army myself. I'm currently working in Germany for an agency (I try to keep that officially on the down-low for OPSEC, if you know what I mean). Intel frowns if we talk too much about our work here.

Meine Deutsch ist nicht zu schlimm aber ich bin nicht ganze gut mit die scriben auch nicht ;) Wife is Polish and our middle language is German. Polish girls are so hot ;)

Focus on the network security, that's where a lot of the milsec is going. Thanks for making me laugh out loud with the Drizzt do’Urden. Too funny. Thanks goodness there were no Fylreh's in that story heh.

Jason

2/20/2019 05:42:13 am

Jason,
I could totally tell you were former military, even before reading your bio synopsis at the end of the book, by some of the verbiage you use that is somewhat military jargon (though thankfully not the alphabet soup of the military acronym system). It’s awesome that you are a success story of the military. I see so many homeless vets and people who leave the military without a plan that it is depressing. It’s good to see someone get ahead.
I know what you mean about OPSEC. I have a friend that works at Fort Meade, in the words of esteemed editor Stan Lee, “nuff’ said.”
Thanks for the advice. And as a sidebar any advice on what certs I should be looking at for the future of network security?
Have a great day man, have some gluwien for me.
Tim

2/20/2019 06:50:51 am

Focus on Cyber Security to keep a job with the new changes. Everything seems to be going under Ms Azure's cloud. But if we are going to chat work stuff, send me an email at [email protected] This is way too open of a forum for me to talk about work stuff. After the shootings here in Germany, I don't mess around with the family's safety.

Todd P

2/16/2019 06:38:31 pm

I have to say that the podcast that said basically the first 50% of the book is the same at the Ascend Online really has done damage. I trusted the LIT-RPG podcast for new books. since his general info is along the lines of what i like to read. since i cant go through a 300 page book in a few hours and do not have a lot of spare reading time, i have to pick and choose what to read. But he was really dead wrong with his review. I finally picked your first book up but had forgotten about the plagiarism charge. I categorize books as i read them. in the LIT-RPG realm there are only a few starts and its either a way to make a living wage or a new life because they are locked in the game and cannot escape. Because you have several elements that are similar does not mean plagiarism.
With the games that have been played and the BS that you have gone though, I hope that you get payback. Since the accusation of plagiarism has hurt you financially.
I have not had time to look though all the back and forth but I would like to know if Luke has actually gone after you directly. (i.e. the take down from amazon) If he has then although i like his series, i don't know if i can support buying for his books.

2/16/2019 11:50:45 pm

Hey Todd, thanks for dropping me a line and letting me know you enjoyed the series. You're not the first with this story of being angry that you're discovering that the LitRPGPodcaster isn't being honest about his reviews. After looking into this issue myself I discovered it was much more widespread than even I thought. He has a group of buddies that he supports, most other writers he seems to bash. Not only him, but him and a group of his buddies that consider themselves major members of the LitRPG community. Here is another fan's comment about the issue who stopped viewing the LitRPGPodcast reviews after finding out the truth for herself:

Note: There seems to be a contingent of people in the various LitRPG FB groups that have formed what I'd call an AK (author killer) "Guild". They consider themselves "key members" and seem to think they get to decide who gets "rated up" or "rated down" in the genre and have left some pretty nasty review comments. They actually reported this author to Amazon for plagiarism and got his first book suspended. The complaint didn't stand up to review and, happily, the book is back. I'm so disappointed in these people that I'll read LitRPG, but if an author "links" to these FB groups, I no longer leave a review (excepting for a few authors I've been reading before this stuff got started).
***You can see her whole review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2706811549?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1

The LitRPGPodcast guy is R.A. Mejia https://www.amazon.com/R.A.-Mejia/e/B01MRTVW3O/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1550389144&sr=1-1 He's an author on Amazon who writes LitRPG. No conflict of interest there when you're reviewing new authors.

What's sad is that I've had several new indy LitRPG authors who asked me for advice on publishing which I've gladly given. Every time I warn them of going to Gamelit and LitRPG to post their new books, because this AK group (author killer group) is watching these sites to bash new writers. As soon as they post their book they get some of that wonderful troll luving.

Did Luke actually join them? Who knows, it would seem like he's a part of the group since he reported my book to Amazon as being a copy of his own book, but if he is, he's using an alternate account. I've never seen a bash from a reviewer named Luke. I have to say, I now am careful who I support as a reader.

For now, the best way I can 'get them back' is to write good and excel at my stories. That seems to upset them the most and it cuts through any of their online media bullshit that they try to hit me with like a knife. If you want to help, simply leave good reviews for my books and share the word.

2/17/2019 09:05:43 am

Thanks for the info. Just keep writing and telling stories.

Collin

3/12/2019 10:38:41 am

So...the Syndicate is real!

3/12/2019 11:07:35 am

There was always a Syndicate. I unfortunately forget the name of the original guild that haunted our Omni Golf and Country Club guild in Anarchy Online, so I named them The Syndicate in the story. All of what they did were true.

I think there are always bully groups in every aspect of life. In Indy Author publishing on Amazon, The Syndicate is live and well, sadly to say. Just like in the games I've played or IRL as an Indy Author, I will do my best to fight people like that. Bullies, PKers, those people that like to push you down and kick sand in your face just because it makes them feel big.

Jason

2/17/2019 09:12:46 pm

Thanks for the review Todd and saying like it is. You have some good company on book one's reviews. I'll focus on my part of the equation, getting another great story out :)

Geezette

2/21/2019 01:15:54 pm

Todd... Read your review. Nicely done.

Jonathan

2/17/2019 12:52:43 am

You know, i enjoyed your books. And really there isnt much of a starting point you can make at first. Heres what i can say, i dont know if i read ascend online, if i did i dont remember. But i read all of yours back to back. And enjoyed them. You tell a good story. Granted, i noticed a few errors in Grammer, but i just finished some russian ones that were much worse. Just keep doing what you are doing. The story is good, and i like it.

2/17/2019 09:14:28 pm

Hey Jonathan, I don't think I've ever heard it said in such an awesome way. Thank you.

2/17/2019 01:05:43 am

Thanks Jonathan, I appreciate the support. (Side note: I'm always working on the grammar. Eric is going through book one as we speak. Other fans send me tidbits in that I've missed, so they slowly get better. That's the whole Indy Writer thing which I thank everyone for being patient with on.) Domenic has already told me to just ignore the asshats and write which I am starting to do. I figured that I'd take a moment to address these guys since they were making their trolling activities so obvious. In the long run, you and Domenic are right. People are buying and enjoying the series. Even when I throw in odd situations like Fylreh, Helgath, the Meer-Lizards and the Morticians ;) I'll just focus on the writing and all of this will become a non-issue as they waste their time on trolling and I spend my time on writing more and better books.

2/19/2019 11:48:44 am

WOOHOO! Another troll's post has been removed. Blatant Plagiarism, aka A Man of No Consequences, aka XXX (guess what 20 sided dice author this might be) had his post removed by Amazon for trolling from book one. Thanks for the help in reporting these guys activities.

Bemused Joker

2/28/2019 10:51:32 am

I am not an author

2/28/2019 11:05:03 am

Whatever you say, oh Kip of the 20-sided dice. Oh yeah, I know who you are. Even if you're not him and are playing as him, you could be an editor or a buddy spouting the hate. What you are is a nasty troll. Your group goes after new Indy Writers and bashes them as they release new books. Really, you should be ashamed of yourself.

I'll do my best to get the truth out about your group. That's the funny way about truth, it usually comes out in the end whether you want it to or not. Already, I hear so many reviews from fans saying, 'wow I didn't read this series for so long because of the nasty hype about the author, now I finally read it for myself and saw the truth. It's a completely different series.'

You can bash my new fans who speak up about me on the facebook pages, you can delete their posts to hide the truth, but your only taking them away from your fan base and in the end this will all come out. It will just make your Indy Author Killer Guild look that much more like the hateful trolls that they are. I wonder how many of you will have to re-roll your author names just so people will buy your future series? To be honest, if I were you, I'd quite the hate while you still can.

Jason

3/1/2019 06:45:26 am

Seriously... I am not an author or an editor or a beta reader. I am a reader. I have no power in any FB page or online group or website. I also have no fan base.I am not part of some "Indy Author Killer Guild". As amusing as that would be, I am just one guy. I am, more or less, a man of no consequence. Nobody cares about my opinion except you. Actually I have never seen an author get so tilted by reviews that they brawl it out in the comments sections. Whatever I guess.

3/1/2019 10:07:00 am

What is that saying, 'Thou doth protest too much?'

You didn't start trolling my blog until things like this started showing up:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3FONHHAMQP667...
Geezette
1.0 out of 5 starsTotal treat and major disappointment.
September 13, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
Update:
SAY IT ISN'T SO! 😨 Is this author posting reviews as "A Man of No Consequence" (displays a certain graphic) where he disses and down rates other LitRPG authors? So disappointed. Changed my rating to 1-star. I'll change it back if it's not this author.

I guess my comment 'I don't know if this is what happened, but I find the series of events very interesting. My response to him on the blog was that people would start finding out who he really was and I wondered how that would work out for him as an author.' is coming to pass. Good luck with all of that btw. Tbh, this isn't news to me but was discovered by some random fan who just happened to speak out. Oh btw, I saw that you made your trolling account private. I guess you're trying to not let people see all of your trolling activities. It's probably a little to late for all of that. I would think that's a solid sign that your worried about your activities being discovered.

Your group doesn't always post together, but I did notice a spam of trolling hate come in all at once, with names like Dave, Adam, LitRPGPodcast and Kip aka 'A Man of No Consequences.' I mean, that really makes your group easily to identify. There are others I've been able to identify to a point, although I doubt poor Rasmussen or Jake are a part of your group. Both just seem to be disgruntled writers who look like they couldn't write themselves out of a paper-bag from their reviews or lack their of. Although, I could always be wrong. Of course, there is Raymond and quite frankly we all know who that is (cough Ramon). Do we even start to bring in the secondary accounts you guys like to use? Yep, I got those marked down too.

Personally, I love to email messages to indy authors that the LitRPGPodcast guy who just smashed their new book that was just released is actually a LitRPG author in his own right named, R.A. Mejia. So many people just don't know that little tidbit of information. Better yet, they always thank me for passing along the information.

You see, I believe in letting that light into those dark corners. I like to see the trolls scramble for darkness, because only in the darkness of anonymity do they hold power. Slowly, all of your groups nasty activities will come out. As far as I'm concerned, I'll do everything I can to help that day come along even sooner.

Jason

PS: I don't really care to discuss this with you. What will come will come. If you continue your trolling visits, I'll just delete your posts.

3/2/2019 06:27:29 am

I decided to start adulting. A little late but better late then never.

I want to start over. Let me start off with a sincere apology. I didn't give you a fair chance. I really enjoyed Lukes series and when I saw the blurb to your first book and the post by the LitRPG Podcast comparing the two I got irritated and lashed out. It was childish and I am sorry. Attacking your livelihood by posting poor reviews is both unfair and uncalled for. It deters new readers from your books and buries you in the Amazon system. As an indie author you gotta fight for exposure in a large pool and me crapping all over your books does not help in the slightest.

I've pulled my reviews from your books. I'll go read them for myself and when I've finished I will put up an honest review.

Again. I am sorry. I treated you unfairly. I got caught up in the mob mentality ( my fault). I trusted the research and conclusions of others without forming my own opinion.(My fault) I trashed your work without forming my own conclusions.(My fault) In anger I left false reviews that did not reflect the true nature of the product that I had "reviewed" (Again My fault) I won't defend my actions. I was an asshole and I freely admit it.

3/2/2019 06:32:41 am

I am actually not Kip Terrington or any other author. I have never heard of the man or his books. The link to the review that you posted was the first that I have heard of him. I am seriously just a reader with an attitude problem. I feel pretty bad that he is getting negative reviews because of my childish behavior.

3/2/2019 10:02:28 am

All that I ever wanted was a fair shake. I never once said my concept was unique. After 'The Last Paladin Series' I wanted to write something that was more in a nitch genre. Also, with gaming, there are only so many starts you can really do. I will say that my writing style, characters, and even world stand out in itself, albeit it's probably not until book 4 that some people really start to understand what it is I'm building world-wise. Honestly, I've never seen anything like the storylines I have going on in book four anywhere in LitRPG or GameLIT, so, maybe in that way, my series is truly starting to stand out from the crowd.

Book 1 through 3 aren't anything more similar than any other LitRPG story would be to another, and I would argue that it is less similar than most. Just shine that same severe light on other series that were placed on mine and it's easy to see what I mean and that's not even discussing the truly different aspects of the story, people and world itself. There have been so many people who have come to make their own judgment about if I plagiarized Luke's story or not. After reading my series, they realize the truth that the accusations that the story is a copy of Luke's is simply a lie. I figure every person who does that is one less fan for the LitRPGPodcast guy. Just go through the reviews on book one and read people's responses for yourself. There are quite a few of them that are pissed off for being lied to after reading through both series and discovering the truth for themselves. (I will say that listening to the LitRPGPodcast man's review even made me mad and I knew it was bullshit.)

Geezette brings up a good point. There is a group that attacks new indy authors whenever they release their books and it seems to me that the LitRPGPodcast guy is the tip of that spear. It's probably why he doesn't like people knowing that he's an author in the genre. Is it a group or is it him, it's hard to know. I can only discuss my own experiences which haven't been pretty and those of new authors I've been in contact with who have experienced the same negative review hammer he likes to swing. I warn every new writer in the genre that contacts me to NOT post their books in the facebook groups, otherwise they don't have any time to build up reviews from real fans before he hits them with his negative review.

Honestly, after all the trolling I've experienced, it's hard not to be sensitive about it. You don't need to take my word for it. Just go look at the guys rating history. It's easy to see the truth of what I'm saying for yourself. Also, you can't disagree with any of his reviews without him just removing your comments from his video. I took screen shots of it here: http://www.thecheekyfellow.com/home-blog/how-sweat-some-people-can-sell-a-lie-my-experience-with-litrpgpodcasts

I'm always willing to give the benefit of the doubt at least once to anyone. God knows, I've had the misfortune of putting my foot in my mouth more than once in the past. At my age, I've learned to make sure of the truth myself before blindly taking someone else's word as the gospel, but that knowledge was a long time coming.

I do believe our actions have meaning and define us, I have to be able to look at myself in the mirror in the morning and like what I see. So, I accept your apology and will take you at your word. Hopefully, you'll see the truth for yourself and judge me fairly. Instead of making the flash judgment that has so far been the extent of our relationship.

Jason

PS: A back blurb is not a book and I agree I suck at doing back cover descriptions about my work. Jeff D, a fan that initially hated me like you after hearing the LitRPGPodcast man's podcast review on my book, read my series for himself and then came and apologized for treating me so unfairly. He's the one that came up with the current back cover for Book 1, which is much better than my first try.

3/2/2019 11:50:21 am

One final note, go ahead and do yourself a favor and push the updates of the books down before you read the series. There are so many grammar/spelling corrections, formatting changes and the map updates that it's worth getting the cleaned up editions.

2/20/2019 08:05:04 am

I have to admit I chuckled when I read the Adam Shook "big dis" in Book 4 reviews. Jason only asked people that indicated they liked his work to actually post a review. So that means that the barrage of negative comments Adam got were unsolicited. Clueless, much? He's too dense to get that those were genuinely annoyed people calling him on his nonsense? Then he outed it all in his "review"? Yeah, dumb and dumber.

I might feel a little sorry for Luke Chimelko. If he didn't start this, then he really got used and played by these people. They certainly haven't done him any favors. But then, he jumped right in and didn't do anything to stop things.

2/20/2019 08:13:46 am

Thanks Geezette! Honestly, I think Luke is in the group from how much the LitRPGPodcast guy talk up his personal relationship he has with him IRL on my bad review he did on my book. Which, makes me sad tbh.

2/21/2019 01:11:27 pm

Forgot to ask: What's a Twitch troll and do you have those? Can anyone get one?

2/21/2019 01:32:18 pm

Mrs Geezette, Twitch Trolls are some of the worst creatures known to haunt the internet. They especially like to search for their Indiy Authors on LitRPG and GameLIT groups hosted on sites like Facebook before attacking with their deadly claws on Amazon and Goodreads. From what I've been able to determine, they like to travel in groups to hunt for their prey. They tend to be very secretive, since they're able to better target their victims from the anonymous shadows. Thankfully, the light of discovery is their greatest vulnerability. For to be caught by their numerous victims would utterly destroy them and their power.

2/21/2019 05:29:32 pm

OH PSHAW!
Guess them what's got them can keep 'em. They show up around here and I'll let the chiggers have 'em.

Giant chiggers. Now that'd be some scary monsters...

2/22/2019 10:46:59 am

Wish I could do that in real life. Oh, you're a troll, here's your giant sand flea. There is a new wave of hate that has been coming through. Luckily the stars seem to be holding but sometimes you wonder if these people have a life. I keep thinking how much actual writing they could be getting in instead of bashing other writers. I know fighting back paint a huge target on my back, but I've never been one to sit quiet and take what bullies are trying to dish out. In the end the truth will come out and I'll do my best to be one of the ones that helps that along so these people get their just deserts.

2/28/2019 04:38:40 pm

Determined trolls? Still? Amazon does give us the chance to revise an unacceptable review. This is so disheartening. These are vendors dissing their competition and actively working to manipulate ratings. Both are violations and Amazon claims the latter won't be tolerated.

No one should be subjected to an ongoing harassment campaign.

3/1/2019 07:44:40 am

It's beginning to look like Amazon is selective about enforcing policies, terms, etcetera. Some authors get clobbered and others are exempt. I guess it's good to be king?

3/2/2019 07:43:10 am

Bemused joker ~ Nice apology. Direct your annoyance at LitRPGPodcast (Ramon Mejia) & cohorts? They actually got Jason's 1st book suspended for plagiarism. Miracle of miracles! It was reinstated after an Amazon investigation. So maybe Jason deserves to be "hypersensitive".

I just don't get Mejia dissing and down rating authors who write (compete) in his own genre. Bad enough he discourages readers via his podcast. But, as an Amazon author, he has to know he's attempting to influence (manipulate) the market and negatively affecting their Amazon standings when he posts reviews with 3 star, or lower, ratings with negative commentary. That's got to be intentional. And it's just ugly.

I'd have no problem if he just supported authors he liked or at least didn't post to Amazon. But then he couldn't advertise his brand...

Robert link

3/7/2019 05:10:13 am

Wanted to let you know that as a fan of your The World books I too have run into people trying very hard to slander you when ever I post something about how great the books are. I do know that Ive read that LitRPGPodcast (Ramon Mejia) was asked to stop his podcast by some of the other authors as it was seen as being biased and self serving. He refused and was kicked out of the group so he started his own group. This is all from reading on LITRPG FB. Your books are great and I see no reason why I or anyone should not purchase and support you. Keep up the good work and know that for every Troll or sheep lol there are real fans here for you.

3/7/2019 09:33:47 am

Hey Robert,

There is a strong group of writers and their buddies that control a lot of the LitRPG facebook groups and if you don't follow what they say is correct, they become aggressive and nasty. I've been doing my best to get the information that Ramon is a litrpg writer. Slowly it's been getting around but for a long time no one knew that he was doing. Slamming new writers and anyone that wasn't his buddy. Up until then, he'd been bashing people with anyone saying anything about this trolling activities. Even though he got kicked out of the main LitRPG group for his trolling new authors and leaving nasty reviews about them that weren't true, somehow I'm still the black sheep of the LitRPG community to a point. It doesn't matter if the accusations were true or not, getting accused period makes you the bad guy.

I cannot even tell you how many fans Ramon has lost once his fans realize that he's been lying on his reviews. The ones I hear about are when people get angry after finally reading my story and finding out all of his hype that I 'stole Luke's story' was a lie. You see posts here and on reviews left on the books stating peoples' experiences with this. Yet, he and his buddies do their best to keep spreading the hate and trying to push me down. When they found out book 4 was selling so well, they hit the book hard and in one week managed to drop it from 4.8 stars to 4.2. Before that, they'd been putting their focus on book 1.

Also, like you, if anyone says anything positive about my series or makes a post about the series, they jump on them like a pack of jackals, delete the posts and spam hate about me. This is against the rules of the group but the moderators allow this because of who control the group itself. That whole thing is pretty fucked up if you asked me and it's why I don't bother with the facebook groups anymore. I just cannot stomach the bullshit that they're doing.

Luckily, people like you who enjoy the book have been giving your own reviews and once again the book has been going up in the ratings. I've stated this so many times now, but it doesn't make it any less true. Book 4 would have never been written without everyone's support in stopping Ramon and his buddies from pushing me out of the LitRPG genre and letting me know you loved the series.

Anyway, thank you. The support always gives me that much more motivation to write more.

Jason
PS: Eric took some time to give me feedback on book 5 and he says the story sounds great. I always get worried whenever I start a new book out if I'm hitting it or not. Especially the complex story I'm dealing with in book 5.

Bob

3/9/2019 03:24:24 am

Wow, okay. Where to start. I would delete this entire post. I stopped reading Anne Rice when she put out one of these anti-critic posts in ye ol' amazon forums (RIP Amazon Forums). The only thing it highlights is the validity of remaining negative comments. You've edited your book, probably multiple times, to remove any hint of plagiarism. At least that's what I'm assuming it's for. Your word usage, grammar, and sentence structure still suck. Your MC's plot armor is still thick enough to make the conclusions both obvious and inevitable, and continued reading kinda redundant. Your positive to negative reviews are suspiciously out of purportion (which is normal for mass output writers and Amazon for some reason.) So, if you didn't edit it for normal purposes, and it's obvious you didn't actually hire or use an editor, or even use editing software, then why did you post about "Trolls" right after editing your book? You put "*** newly edited as of February 27th, 2019 ***" in there yourself, didn't you? You know I don't have a time machine to compare the new one to the previous version. I remember the original having near 2 solid pages of text being extremely similar to another book, and I stopped reading out of respect to the original author. Near the start of the first world log in, you are probably intimately familiar with the (probably completely rewritten from scratch) text. I didn't compare books or anything, so I didn't report you. Didn't even bother leaving a review. Mostly out of sheer laziness. So, as a random reader at that time, that WAS valid concern/complaint. Soooo... I mean, common man. You have to know how bad this looks, right?

Robert Ullman link

3/9/2019 04:50:55 am

Wow just Wow.... if your going to slam the author for editing his books after publishing to provide a better product and accuse him of doing it to remove this so called plagiarism ( with out proof ) your a sheep man not even a troll. Like you read a book stopped and thought oh no I better stop reading because this is so much like another book it would be wrong. I read 8 to 10 books almost weekly and that has never happened to me. You may want to check your facts Amazon cleared him and the book don’t you think they would covered their bases if this was true and no I don’t believe you as most wouldn’t because why would you a regular person be on his website trolling lol if you stopped reading after part of book one. But most of all I have never heard anything from Luke I’ve read his updates and kept up and nothing no issues so..... your just having fun trolling but this effect people’s lives and family’s. You know the great thing about America is you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law NOT PUBLIC OPINION. Keep your biased trolling thoughts to that other guys litrpg poscast which is a self serving toxic environment that I refuse to listen or give credence to. Good day sir

3/9/2019 07:30:35 am

Thanks Robert. This just means that the bullshit that they've been selling is starting to come out. Like I've repeatedly said, how many times can you bash fans on the facebook forums for saying the truth before it affects your own fan base? How long can you troll new indy authors and post bullshit before that shit gets out and people start saying, wtf?

Luckily the community mostly decided to look at the issue for themselves before just blindly believing LitRPGPodcast and friends accusations. Their continued shenanigans are also coming to light and affecting their wallet and fan base. Now, look at who's swinging by to somehow do damage control. I find the whole thing very very interesting.

Jason

3/9/2019 07:23:00 am

Due to my Indy Author website, my posts have a limit on word count, so this is Blog Post part 1.

Hey Luke or is it Ramon, no I mean Bob. Sorry about that, but your trolling post made me slip up there for a second. It's obvious that your an author or an editor, because normal readers don't say MC, say redundant plot lines or editing quite like the way an author or editor does. You know, I once was a fan of Luke's until all of this happened. Reading his books made me think he'd actually be a cool person to team up with in a game. Even now, I find it hard to believe he doesn't have at least some of the personality traits of his hero. I'd like to think Ramon is like AJ was in our group. A guy that was mostly cool to game with, but could be a real dick otherwise. He'd have those bad times were he'd start doing fucked up stuff and no one really wanted to address the issue. Like Ramon, I could see him calling Luke up and saying, "Dude this guy completely plagiarized your story!"

Luke, believing his friend, just jumped on the band wagon without really looking into the story. I mean, Ramon must be right. Their group does their bashing of this Indy Writer who thought he'd copy the entire half of his book and get away with it. Afterwards they high-five each other thnking, job well done. Then, as the months go by, the truth starts coming out. Yep, Ramon stepped on his dick. Not only that, but he's been doing a bunch of shady stuff none of his friends really new about.

Later on Luke goes back and reads the story and by damn, nothing he was saying matches up. Well, it doesn't match up in the way that Ramon was going on about and is about as different as any LitRPG genre story is to one another. Now, people are starting to ask embarrassing questions and Luke is and company is starting to look ... quite bad. Then, things like this start happening https://www.reddit.com/r/GameLit/comments/a1zpoo/author_and_reviewer_ramon_mejia_banned_from/ Time for some damage control and quick.

3/9/2019 07:23:49 am

Blog Post part 2.

Now here is someting funny, I was just going to link Ramon's (aka LitRPGPodcast) page by page breakdown of all the ways First Login copied Luke's first book and you know what ... it's gone. At least I can't find it anywhere. I guess I could go on googles wayback machine to see if the site was saved anywhere, but it's really NOT that important to me. I guess too many people started, you know, looking at what he reviewed and said was plagiarism and then read the book and said, "Dude, that's just plain wrong." so now he took down his word for word accussations. Damn, that would have been quite easy to point to his highlighted pages and disproved your accussations that my 'Newly Edited as of February 27th, 2019' sentence on my books wasn't just, you know, actual grammar and spell corrections.

My blog posts here lists the accussations and the changes that were made due to the accussations http://www.thecheekyfellow.com/home-blog/how-sweat-some-people-can-sell-a-lie-my-experience-with-litrpgpodcasts (side note here: there are sooo many more reviewers on the book stating how the book is it's own story by now) The only thing not listed here as to the actual changes to the book 1 is that the back page was updated. I had an ex-LitRPGPodcast fan who initially hated me, finally read the book for himself and discovered the accussations were a lie, who then helped me clean up the book and slightly change the back cover to be better and, by happen stance, remove that point of contention by Ramon. Otherwise, it's all just straight grammar and spelling changes Baby ... err I mean Luke or is that Ramon... wait no, I mean Bob. Yes, you're calling yourself Bob now.

Yeah, sorry to burst your bubble there but I mean it's been well documented. Besides, so many fans have helped with the actual editing that most are quite familiar with the storyline for book 1. The two pages of highlighted text from Ramon was just his way of selling a sweet lie. Hell, if you'd took his word for gospil then 50% of the book was straight copied and pasted from Luke's story. Honestly, I high doubt you read anything, but only you know the answer to that. Even Ramon only read enough into the story to make his arguement sound believable. Funny thing, his description of what happened in the rest of the story on his review is plain wrong, but that's not even here or there in this discussion.

3/9/2019 07:24:29 am

Blog Post part 3.

Your slamming of the fans who liked the book and the one guy who didn't particularly like the story, but agreed that the whole hubbub about it being plagiarized was just bullshit, is pretty hilarious. The books wouldn't be making a hit or selling if it weren't for them, their reviews, and their support in editing the series to make it even that much better. (Yeah, you know Indy Writer here not able to afford an editor, but that warning is in the beginning of the book.) You're right about the suspiciously disproportionate reviews. I do have a group of trolls from Ramon and friends who have purposely and continuously did their best to knock my books down. Many of them authors and editors. Thankfully, the, you know, actual fans were able to have their voices be heard even with the media war that Ramon did against me. In some ways, I feel like I should be thanking you guys. I mean, otherwise, my novels might never have been found without the whole controversy that you guys started.

You're welcome to your opinion that my characters and writing style sucks, but I'd argue that the whole spending a couple of weeks on #6 for book 1 and #3 for book 4 for over a month would say otherwise. Hell, and that was with all the trolling that you guys were doing. Anyway, I'm sure you know the old saying of opinions being like assholes, right?

Lastly, the reason I that you guys are now showing up on my blog is that your struggling to save face any way you can. You're trying to show that 'at the time' your arguements were valid and so I'm still actually in the wrong. We both know, that isn't so. Your other nefarious activities of trolling new writers, deleting fans' posts on the LitRPG & GameLIT channels and attacking them like jackals is slowly coming out and starting to bite you in the collective asses. Just so you know, every time I see a nasty review from the LitRPGPodcast guy knocking some new Indy Author's stars down below 4 stars, I try to do my best to be there to give that author a five star review and then pass on the word that the LitRPGPodcast guy is actually an author named R.A. Mejia and that you can find his books here: https://www.amazon.com/R.A.-Mejia/e/B01MRTVW3O/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1550389144&sr=1-1

Jason
PS: Yes, I know I wasn't exactly cordial here, but then again, you're the one that started off the tone of this discussion.

3/9/2019 08:36:23 am

Ah, Bob (is it). I read the books before and after your timeframes. The only changes were grammar, etcetera. If copyrights matter, I do believe that Jason's book trumps Luke's? Regardless, if a plagiarism complaint doesn't hold up to an Amazon investigation, it should be moot? They have actual lawyers. How often do they reverse a suspension? Just ask MSE and others who've been disappeared. To me, that makes Jason's work sterling.

3/9/2019 09:12:57 am

My copyrights have all come in too, so that's that check box checked too :)

3/9/2019 08:22:07 am

Yep, waving red flags at the LitRPG groups probably does do much. I agree with "Just so you know, every time I see a nasty review from the LitRPGPodcast guy knocking some new Indy Author's stars down below 4 stars, I try to do my best to be there to give that author a five star review and then pass on the word that the LitRPGPodcast guy is actually an author named R.A. Mejia."

At the very least, watch for the "not worth reading" reviews (3 star and lower) from LitRPGPodcast and cronies. Then read the book and, if you can honestly do a 4+ review at Amazon, do so? Page read count for the author. Also, help get the word out that GR reviews, especially ratings, don't help an Amazon indie author?

For starters, here are two books that got dissed and have inaccurate descriptions (IMO) in the LitRPGPodcast reviews:
***Jeremy Fabiano's "Legend of the Sword Bearer"
***L.E. Clark's "Sorcerer's Quest".

I don't do FB, so if someone wants to share this info it's fine by me.

3/9/2019 09:19:49 am

There are so many of these trolling posts from the LitRPGPodcast guy. The man is truly a stain in the community. How anyone can justify his actions and look at themselves in the mirror the next day truly has no personal honor.

Glad to see I'm not the only one doing what I can to fight his trolling activities. I guess if you can't write better than the competition, then 'troll the fuck out of them instead with your friends' is some people's working philosophy.

3/10/2019 11:39:49 am

People are catching on. Came across "Super Mage" by Aron Oster. Best seller and solid 4+ ratings in spite of dissing from Adam Shook and LitRPGPodcast. Usual don't bother reading, boring spiel. But they both blatantly steer to "Dante's Immortality". Even with "Helpfuls" and maybe other 3-raters that I didn't recognize, their efforts weren't enough to scuttle the author. Although they still cost him some readers?

Interesting that both books use the same illustrator...

3/10/2019 12:02:07 pm

Like I said before, they're friends who like to troll together. Looks like the LitRPGPodcast slam didn't lower the man's stars enough, so Adam came in and hit the guy with a two star review just to make sure.

I betcha Dave is somewhere around there under another name too. The crew considers themselves the core of LitRPG. I'm not sure what that means other than it gives them the right to bash anyone they consider unworthy in the genre. Wish I could find out what Adam ever did to acquire that 'made-up' honor besides following Ramon and Dave around to troll new Indy Authors. Does he actually write under a pen name or something?

Too bad there's not a good way to get their trolling activities out to the LitRPG & GameLIT communities. Well, at least LitRPG. GameLIT seems to give them free reign to attack anyone they choose who says anything they disagree with, even if it's against the group's rules.

3/11/2019 12:40:26 pm

XP:UNLOCKED by Jason Grulke
This is so sad? I spotted yet another new release that looks like it's been hit by Ramon and friends (although I don't recognize the down raters for sure). Some hits were really nasty, including 'copying' comments.

Then I checked out his website. His blog has this huge homage to Ramon and LitRPGPodcast. He's even a Patreon supporter.
https://www.jsgrulke.com

I just don't get it. The bad reviews look to be Ramon and cronies. Totally anomalous amongst 4+ reviews. This is nuts!?!?!

3/11/2019 01:23:28 pm

I went ahead and sent a message to Jason Grulke about the LitRPGPodcast guy and his cronies. I feel sorry for the dude. Hopefully, my 5 star helps just a little bit. Jason really put a lot of work into the artwork and storyline for the book. Getting the word out here is what helps. At sometime it has to make a difference.

Jason

3/14/2019 09:07:09 am

I just found out a new trolling technique that the LitRPGPodcast guy is using when he gets caught trolling Indy Authors and people comment negatively against his reviews. He deletes his review and re-posts the review so that any negative comments and accusations that shows what he's up to are removed. I caught that on the trolling review he left for me on book 1 here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2O47CHQULASGF/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B07H35XRLZ

I once again redirected people to this blog post and pointed out that the LitRPGPodcast account was R.A. Mejia secondary trolling account he uses to smash other Indy Authors in competition with his own books and also linked them to his banning: https://www.reddit.com/r/GameLit/comments/a1zpoo/author_and_reviewer_ramon_mejia_banned_from/

So, for those of you who are calling him out, be aware of his new tactic to get rid of negative replies to his trolling reviews.

Federico

3/18/2019 11:25:01 am

Hey Jason!

Just wanted to say that I was put off by the mixed reviews on book 1 as well (I usually judge a series by the first book since I noticed that not a lot of people come back to post reviews for follow up books), but I decided to give it a go and I had an absolute blast reading your whole series in about 5 days!

Can you give us any updates on book 5? Even a rough percentage of how much you've done so far would be like water to this thirsty man!

Cheers!

3/18/2019 01:26:07 pm

Hey Federico, thanks for giving the series a try and as always, please leave a good review on the books you can.

So, book 4 took me four months to write and was 779 pages. That was with a good month three to four weeks of corrections, fighting having book 1 blocked on Amazon and other fun things that probably took another month of time and we won't even mention Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Years.

Book 5, the bad news is that I already lost 3 weeks with corrections and another 3 weeks being sick as a dog with bronchitis. While I did get some writing in, it wasn't at my normal speed. The good news, is that it's really starting to move now. I already have 40k words written. 88-90k is a normal sized book. The next is good or bad depending on how your point of view. This book is going to be very very long. The story itself is super complex. There are a lot of fight scenes that are super complex with the PVP aspect of many of the battles. Each of them and the tactics and strategy used in the fights must be different and unique. Also, the PVE storyline is very complex too, but it's coming out quite good. I'll keep everyone up to date, but I am trying to get the book out asap.

Jason

3/18/2019 01:31:54 pm

That's great news!

Quick question, are you planning to do some base building in your series, or do you think that itsi something that you couldn't weave in the plot?

3/18/2019 01:44:38 pm

Oh yeah, I totally forgot I have to bring some of what's happening in back at BrokenFang Hold. The Valkyrie and remaining Devil Dogs are hard at work with the House of Kayden slowing down the Hobgoblin advance and cleaning out the resource areas to increase production. Yeah, I'll have to add some of that in. Also, there is some other base building stuff with Domenic and others that will be part of the story. I have to add that to the outline so I don't forget :)

3/25/2019 02:32:25 pm

I could use a hand if you have a minute on book four if you don't mind a minute of clicking. A fan just sent me an email pointing this out. There is a new tactic the IAK trolls are using. They've been posting a few bad reviews and then they click helpful on all of them. Once their reviews get up to six or seven "helpful" clicks, their trolling reviews always default to the top of the list whenever anyone looks at the book's reviews. That's because defaults their view to the "Top Rated". So, no matter if the overall stars for the story, their negative reviews will always top the first page.

Really, the only way I can see this being combated is if fans click helpful on good reviews. Click on the link to see what I mean: https://www.amazon.com/…/B07NBX…/ref=acr_dbsmidasshort_text… (The first six reviews are negative except for J Florence's)

I guess this is their way of trying to block people from wanting to read book 4 or any books thereafter. I swear, don't these guys have a life?

Jason

Thomas

8/20/2019 12:44:04 am

Jason,

I love your books, I read through all 5 of them in just a few days and cannot wait for book 6 to come out. While looking for information on this 6th book I came across all of these blog posts about trolling. I am honestly a bit appalled in the way you keep going on about the AK guild. I actually looked at some of the bad reviews on Amazon, and I can honestly say that some of feedback given there is valid i.e. the way that every female character is a sex bomb. I am a guy, I love this kind of stuff, and I have fun reading it. However, I feel it is very valid if someone finds this repulsive and gives a negative review because of this. Don't get me wrong, I can very well believe you that you have been trolled, but it is kind of weird that you post your trolling accusation on every negative review.

Please keep up your amazing writing and story telling, it really is a great read. At the same time I hope you start reducing your hysteric AK ramblings, I would hope that you don't need this anymore by book 5.

Btw, I had started reading Ascend Online before and got extremely bored ;)

Thomas

8/20/2019 04:12:59 am

Hey Thomas,

I hear what you're saying. I wish I'd never had to deal with the IAK or their games and that it was all some sort of simple misunderstanding. The truth is, you’re not being paranoid when there are people truly out to get you.

Unfortunately, I have been directly targeted ever since I put out book 1 of The World series. My books have been blocked by accusations multiple times now and I'm starting to build a collection of apologies from Amazon. This is due to there being groups of writers who try to block new writers from entering their genre. Sadly, it is a major issue and I've seen new authors repeatedly targeted. Most have no idea that they are being targeted and the soul crushing reviews make them give up on trying to write further. It's bullying on a level that hurts more than just peoples' feelings, but affects their pocket books and lives.

I have become a target to these groups because I stood up to them and didn’t simply fade away after being attacked. Maybe it’s hard to see what’s going on if you weren’t here from day one and weren’t following the fight from the very beginning. If you weren’t here when new attacks would come in that could only be blocked by fans support. It’s hard to know, but I can tell you that I didn’t write these blog posts for the hell of it. Even now, my series is being constantly trolled. The newest focus is on the audible book side, albeit the eBooks always get a few licks too. There are some real reviews from readers who didn’t like the series and I did my best to leave those reviews alone. Not liking the series isn’t an issue. Not liking the series and leaving a 1 or 2 star review for all five books is being a troll. Sadly, the majority of the negative reviews are from trolls trying to block the series.

Many of the trolling accounts are easy to discover by simply looking at their history. Hell, I have a post that points out the most common examples. At first, I responded against them with comments and pointed out their fake nature. Many of the nasty reviews are simply meant to be hurtful. The reviews don’t need to be accurate or relevant to the actual series, but have general complaints so that the individual can leave their negative rating.

Nowadays, I don’t bother responding to the negative reviews. Although, I do ask that fans leave reviews for me and other authors they enjoy to steal away these groups power to control the genres. Luckily, that’s enough to naturally block the handful of individuals who continually try to knock my ratings down. As far as I’m concerned, let them waste their time following my blog for new updates, bashing my books, and worrying my ratings while I’m writing more and better books.

You don’t need to take my word for this. Simply read the other comments on this post. There are trolls who admitted to trolling my series. Fans that pointed out some of the worst trolling on mine and other indie authors works. It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that this really is an issue that readers need to be aware of. If not your support, those stories that you like so much could easily be blocked by a small group of authors that are trying to dominate the genre. I can say from personal experience that there wouldn’t have been any additional books to The World series if not for the support I’d received from the community.

To be perfectly honest, I am appalled that this is an issue in the first place. I am appalled that Amazon doesn’t follow their community guidelines and automatically remove these trolling accounts like they would an indie authors’ positive reviews from friends and family. If they did that, this wouldn’t hardly be worth a discussion. I am appalled that established authors know of these groups and how they operate, but say nothing against them because it’s easier that way.

Lastly, I’m glad you enjoyed the series and simply ask that you please leave a positive review on Amazon. It seriously helps. If you do that, I’ll be able to ignore this group and continue writing more of the series you enjoy.

Jason

8/20/2019 04:47:59 am

Thanks Jason for your detailed reply. It is indeed crazy how a relatively small genre community can get into such a state of internal fighting. It is pretty much how you describe the guild wars in your books. In any case I now feel bad to get you again started on this topic, keeping you from getting book 6 out rather sooner than later.

I will also make sure to leave a positive review on your books.

Viel Erfolg!

Thomas

8/20/2019 05:15:16 am

Danke schön, Thomas. I'm working hard on it now =D

Flakes

9/7/2019 03:36:45 pm

I wrote a negative review of your book 4. I did this while liking the first 3 well enough to read up to book 4.

So I want to ask you this. Which is more likely? That individual people can have differing tastes and that you just happen to have written a bad book? Or that there is a vast overreaching conspiracy that is targeting you and nobody else?

If you seriously, I mean really-really think it is the second option, consider reading this page from Web MD and getting help.

https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/delusional-disorder#1

Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a psychotic disorder. People who have it can’t tell what’s real from what is imagined.

Delusions are the main symptom of delusional disorder. They’re unshakable beliefs in something that isn’t true or based on reality. But that doesn’t mean they’re completely unrealistic. Delusional disorder involves delusions that aren’t bizarre, having to do with situations that could happen in real life, like being followed, poisoned, deceived, conspired against, or loved from a distance. These delusions usually involve mistaken perceptions or experiences. But in reality, the situations are either not true at all or highly exaggerated.

A bizarre delusion, by contrast, is something that could never happen in real life, such as being cloned by aliens or having your thoughts broadcast on TV. A person who has such thoughts might be considered delusional with bizarre-type delusions.

People with delusional disorder often can continue to socialize and function normally, apart from the subject of their delusion, and generally do not behave in an obviously odd or bizarre manner. This is unlike people with other psychotic disorders, who also might have delusions as a symptom of their disorder. But in some cases, people with delusional disorder might become so preoccupied with their delusions that their lives are disrupted.

9/8/2019 01:33:59 am

Well Flakes,

I'm not sure why you're bothering to argue that here. Maybe I should call you Dante ... or better yet, Dalton? Are you upset that some of the fans called you out? While I'm aware of the discussions, I'm honestly not interested in joining them. I'm busy writing book 6.

So, how would this post then best be rated? Why would you bother with such a post in the first place? Either you enjoy the series and want to see it grow, you don't care for the series and you wouldn't look into the series or the author further, or you are a part of the IAK guild and/or are a troll. I mean, the answer seems obvious to me. If you continue trolling the blog, I'll just start deleting your comments. Also, thanks for proving my point of the blog post.

Jason

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