As for MOPS, oh yeah, didn’t even make me blink. It’s easy to create several (heck, hundreds) of identities. There is no verification that you’re who you say you are. I think this is why I take recommendations and reviews with a healthy dose of skepticism. Just looking at the online romance community (but you see evidence elsewhere as well), there is no vetting of reviewers or even that a person posting to a list is who they say they are. I know of one instance where the owner of a very large romance-related site signed onto a list where members were critical of her…only she used a different name. She was outed due to a mistake in her sig line (note: to live outside the law, you must be honest!).

I never trust groundswells of support without ample evidence that it’s deserved. It’s rough being a cynical optimist.

I think the point is that those who are honest and tell it like it is DO often find themselves with a knife in their back at times. And yes, sometimes things do feel like junior high, and good grief, do I hate that. Junior high was no fun the first time, I certainly don’t want to do it again.

What did you think of her implication that there are some authors running around with multiple-online-personality-syndrome, drumming up PR for themselves?