She wanted to have the feeling of being a published author and in the process she did something extremely stupid that might ruin any public reputation she ever dreamed of having.

Yeah, if she were a young, inexperienced writer. But this lady is the co-founder of a poetry publishing company, has written instruction manuals in the past, and claims to work as a book editor. In other words: she should REALLY know better! That's why people are coming down on this so hard. If she were just a misinformed first-time author, people still might have laughed, but they probably wouldn't take it out on her like that.