I'm really enjoying "Author on Vacation"'s trolling of the people like Ridley in that DA thread I've linked above, but this part of AOV's passage stands out to me:

"The fact is I don’t need a stranger to tell me what’s good reading or not. I’ve also become very leery of on-line reviewers and review sites due to the lack of professionalism and ethics involved in their creation and maintenance. Until some kind of professional standards and code of ethics regulate e-reviewers, both the books and the reading public are at the mercy of the reviewer."

Now, I'm not sure whether AOV is again trolling for fish with that paragraph, but I have to wonder: do we have "professional standards and code of ethics" for real life reviewers? We have RL reviewers being accused of making up stuff in reviews all the time. Where are the calls for code of ethics and professional standards then?

And I'm sure we all know what those rules will call for, don't we? No calling out authors on their abilities because that is a personal attack, no general statements, always remember the tears and hardships that went into creation of a book and therefore always mention good points about a book instead of bad points. I'm sure some authors will even go as far as to insist that only authors or professors in literature can review because only those people can relate to the tears and suffering of the author.

If we are to have rules for reviewers, I want the same rules to be applied to people who comment on reviews online too. Fair is fair, after all. Let's see how they will fare under the same rules they set for reviewers, heh heh heh.