I read the review, and I believe my downvote was permissible as I thought it didn't provide a fair and/or useful description of the book. After all, what would be the point of the downvote if not for that very reason?
no, there's plenty of negative reviews of his books I don't care about, that particular review was pretty egregiously poor, especially to be so highly rated and on the first page of the book.
I agree with this statement, and am a bit insulted that you (Kellais) think I just went in there guns blazing and blindly started downvoting.
Makes me think that this person started the series with TJE... Which is absurd and insane. Who starts a series in the middle, and then gets upset that they don't like it?
And THIS makes me think you did not read the review 
Yeah he said he read PON, I was suggesting that he lied about it. Not really sure how you could read PoN and then find TJE long/slow/etc.
Separating any of my personal actions from "fanboyism" is really impossible. I am a fan, a fanatic even, and the line of "fanboy" is blurry at best, so for someone who is in fact a known fan, any uncharitable reading of an action I take could be considered as such. Its an easy argument to make, and I can't show you any kind of proof that its not, so its up to you if you want to define it as such.
I tend to think I'm a reasonable person, and I feel no guilt at all about my downvote (though I do obviously feel the need to defend it
). If you thought the review was good, go ahead and upvote, thats why both options are there.
And just to be clear - i know that, most probably, lots of people use those buttons for exactly that. I just think this use of it is dishonest and manipulative. This is why those things are useless on amazon. Which is a shame. Because the idea is a sound one.
It's just that i kind of have higher expectations of the people on this forum.
So do I. Maybe this is why I didn't explicitly lay out all my thoughts on the subject.... Though I'll say that I'm glad you felt the need to call out bullshit when you saw it.
Anyway, Bakker would certainly despise the idea of the in-crowd mentality you're talking about. My "negative propaganda" comment was a joke, but I can see why it wouldn't come across like that (should have used the winky face
). I chose to downvote based on the content AND quality of the review, not just because it was negative. There are negative reviews on that site that have complaints that I can understand, and so I left them alone.
