User blog comment:ArmadillooftheAges/Useless thoughts and opinions from an old user here/@comment-33904527-20190226215840/@comment-36627132-20190303171428

"[S]omeone making a blog in a cheap attempt to advertise their book not only strongly indicates their work is most likely nothing special" you're right. An administrator actually looked at the free preview page on Amazon and found it was riddled with spelling errors.

I think one of the worst parts about the author tags is that you only need to have ten stories published to qualify. They don't have to be popular stories, they don't have to be good stories, they just have to be stories that didn't get deleted. I doubt most author tags are visited very often. Just as bad is Writer's Showcase where authors can advertise their "pastas" (I use the phrase loosly as I like to only refer to classic Creepypastas as "pastas"). It's like this site mostly consists of "Look what I made!" anymore.

And I looked at the blog you linked to in your update. This has been going on for a very long time, even longer than the good years.