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You should try publishing under a different name next time and see what the response is. It would be an interesting experiment.
If he doesn't put a lot of effort into hiding his writing style, it should be pretty easy to tell.
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I never understood why people were doing that. Many Reddit comments about your essays were extremely vicious.
I think the fundamental problem is that writing essays seems presumptuous to a lot of people. They're used to the old print media model in which the only people who got to publish essays were credentialled experts in whatever they were about. That restriction is now gone. Online anyone can publish whatever they want. But I think it still seems to a lot of people that anyone using the essay form is implicitly claiming…
"i tried out the beta demo thing and this thing sucks. i would rather use a manual card catalog in a library staffed by josef stalin. seriously, i hate you people." --posted by jr
I've put significant work over the past 6 years into an open source programming language called Sleep. I have a small community and I love programming in it and that is enough of a reward to me. That said, I've attracted my critics too: Subject: better name would be STOP From: NothingPersonal (62.132.1.121) Date: September 27, 2004 at 10:08:34 Please. Just STOP. stop stop stop. don't inflict yet another half-baked, i…
Used to get hundreds of those requests when I had a prominently placed "feedback" link. Each one made me sad....
Then I changed the link to "feature requests" and nearly all of those requests when away:-) Then I made deactivating the account easier to find. The deactivation rates actually went down when people realized that they could do it themselves any time that they needed to.
"You're a cheep knockoff of [competitor]!" -- This one always got to me too. Spent months not advertising a site and changing it just to be different in fear of this one. I rarely ended up hearing this though.
Several years ago I co-founded a small game company. We busted our butt working 80 hours a week for months on end to get stuff done. We had one game that we shipped and were proud of; it was a budget game, but it was superior to many other games at that price point ($20). Anyway, one reviewer wrote: "I would prefer the soothing comfort of a spork being gouged in my eye rather than playing a few more minutes of this g…
I don’t think that mean criticism is all bad; I’m one of those people who think you should not be creating companies if you don’t have a thick skin. I found out some mean criticism actually push you back against the wall and give you a different prospective on the whole thing. Human ambition feed on challenges; some on the things I did in my life I did them because someone told me I could not do. A personal story: In…
Since we launched on Techcrunch, we were barraged with criticism. Some of it was constructive, some not so much. Honestly, none of it bothered me or my cofounder (tdavis) as we laughed up the ugly and took the rest as free consulting. Except the comment about our passion - questioning how we could devote so much time to "making [tickets] a bit cheaper". As PG pointed out, it's never been about the tickets, it's about…
Since we launched on Techcrunch, we were barraged with criticism. Some of it was constructive, some not so much. Honestly, none of it bothered me or my cofounder (tdavis) as we laughed up the ugly and took the rest as free consulting. Except the comment about our passion - questioning how we could devote so much time to "making [tickets] a bit cheaper". As PG pointed out, it's never been about the tickets, it's about…
That one hurts! It's ok to attack ideas, functionalities, bad design, ugly UI but the guts of the founders... that is really really mean.
If you want to see mean, try writing essays.
I've got a whole collection of choice comments saved up in my quotesfile, but my all-time favorite is this one, from a bona-fide hater who actually meant it:
"I don't see how the US government could be so lax in its responsibility for providing for the national defense as to leave you at large." -- Alan Grimes