A few honest answers, since the criticisms are reasonable. On the domain: I bought vivianvoss.net in early 2026 without doing the homework CrociDB has now done for me. I had no idea about the previous owner, nor do I particularly care to find out, no more than I would investigate the previous tenant of a flat I had just moved into. I am still cleaning up after her in the search index, which has been a slightly absurd…
Whoever owned your domain 10 years prior is not important to this matter, I was just pointing it out that it was very likely not you.
> One aside, in genuine astonishment rather than complaint: it is striking how multifaceted a picture of a stranger can be drawn from a WHOIS record, an Amazon sample and a GitHub page. I have read it with more curiosity than dismay, and learned things about myself in the process.
Well, in my opinion that's your fault entirely. All your descriptions are rather vague on all your networks, which makes this whole thing more suspicious.
> Slop in the AI-slop sense it is not. Heavily edited and translated, yes. Authored, structured, fact-checked and re-read line by line by a man in Germany having rather more fun with this than he had expected, also yes.
Thanks for being transparent with this. I didn't find any mention of that before in your site, so that's good to know.
> Now it is up to you to dig further and keep me on my toes. Ask away. One small request: stay fair.
Once again, I want to be fair and this is nothing personal. I'm not digging any further either. I did change my original comment from "This is 100% AI Slop" to "This seems AI Slop" minutes after I posted it, because I want to acknowledge that I might be wrong.
However, I want you to take my comment more like the one from a possible costumer (after all, I have huge interest in the subject and that was what drove me to do it) who wanted to do some research on an author before spending $90 on their book. This is a platform for discussions, I also raised that concern so other could chime in.