It does not matter what rating the book has. If someone comes here and starts bashing them with no backup information then it will be questioned. Plenty of other forums you can go bash any book you like without being fair. Just not here.
If we had ever seen other reports of people being no-payed by Hollywood it would be much less of an issue. But you are making a claim that just does not ring true, so it's fair and normal to want a bit more detail when you insist on posting the allegation like it's fact, multiple times, over multiple days.
I am not sure what your problem is with what I said or did in that thread
I gave you a 24 hour timeout as after I deleted maybe 10 of your posts and had asked you nicely not to re-post your Northbet invite request in multiple threads, you kept doing it and then sent me PMs claiming I was trying to bully you and it was personal. You obviously didnt get it and the timeout was just to give you a day to hopefully let it sink in and stop.
If I took things personally I could not do this job. I get that an infraction can piss people off but it's genuinely not personal from this end. I only do it as a last resort.
Well, I don't
know they are bogus. I just believe you. And it's not possible for you to give hard evidence to refute the claim. You can't prove a negative assertion. Which is not your fault but it makes it tough for anyone to unbiasedly say to them 'here is the evidence, now pay up'.
Truth is I think the book do truly believe you are a 'bad person' and think they are justified telling you to kick rocks, hard evidence or not as well.
I kind of suspect they might have the wrong person. Or maybe you have had dealings at another book with someone who now works there and they are acting based on memories of one person and assumptions, rather than facts and evidence. I also suspect that if it wasn't as much as 45k they might be easier to deal with on it. But I could be wrong, as all we have to work with are assumptions as well. :\