AIThe Times Literary Supplement removed an essay about AI and the crisis of the author because AI was used in writing it. The magazine enforced its rule in four sentences. The crowd on Facebook went after the man by name.
AIA writing group member asked how much AI is too much and labeled it rage bait. I sorted all 83 answers. The two camps drew the same line and fought anyway.
AIA post told everyone who shares AI-generated images to unfriend the author and skip the argument. His real point was reasonable. The ultimatum turned it into a dare.
AIA mother asked a self-publishing group how to publish the bedtime story she wrote for her daughter with AI illustrations. The thread called her gross, a thief and a bad writer, and buried the answers she needed.
AIA longtime fan posted AI-generated tribute images to a Texas Renaissance Festival group, and more than a hundred people dogpiled him. He broke the group's unwritten rule, and the community has good reasons for it. None of that earned him…
DefamationA book can help you take your story back after a scandal or an online pile-on, if it's written at the right time and in the right spirit. Here's how.
AI WritingTwo authors asked ordinary questions in writing groups. One wanted a vote on three cover mockups, the other wanted honest readers for a book he had just published. Neither did anything wrong, and both got a stoning. A pile-on has…
Book ReviewsHumane, unsettling nonfiction on public shaming and the social-media pile-on, following real wrecked lives with empathy and turning a mirror on the reader and the culture. Impressionistic and digressive instead of systematic, but timely, important, and genuinely thought-provoking for anyone…
BellydanceOne Facebook comment, and within hours hundreds of strangers were piling on, screenshotting, sharing, hostility for its own sake from people who had never met me. Deleting the thread changed nothing. Here is what online mobs across Facebook, YouTube, and…
Amazon & KDPReview bombing is the practice of flooding a product, service, or creator with coordinated negative reviews that have little to do with actual quality. Here is where it hits hardest, the structural conflicts that make it worse, how to spot…
Online ShamingYou used to be able to do something dumb in public and live it down. Now every camera is attached to the internet forever.
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