Dear Person Who Just Left a Negative Comment About Something On the Internet: Difference between revisions
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Hello.
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<p class="post-p" name="7637">Here is that question:</p>
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<p class="post-p" name="3571">What are you doing?</p>
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<p class="post-p" name="ecec">Okay.</p>
<p class="post-p notesSource--hasnotes" name="6c8d">Did you explain why? Did you offer any suggestions for improving the thing you
<p class="post-p" name="0a84">At this point you may be thinking that
<p class="post-p" name="b708">Okay.</p>
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<p class="post-p" name="4b9e">People like vastly different things.</p>
<p class="post-p" name="5701">Would you walk into a
<p class="post-p" name="71f8">So why would you go online to tell strangers what you think about something they might really love? More to the point, why would you do so without them asking? Arriving at the point, why would you do so in a place where people are already enjoying the thing you
<p class="post-p" name="a675">I have a guess about this, and it is not uninformed. I want you to consider the fact that the possibility exists that you said what you said just to get attention.</p>
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<p class="post-p" name="8069">But.</p>
<p class="post-p" name="dbb6">This time you sought it at someone
<p class="post-p" name="ddc3">Maybe it was a thing you ridiculed, but a person made that thing. Chances are good they worked very hard on it while they tried to put something out there for people to enjoy. Chances are even better they are demotivated by drive-by criticism of what they do.</p>
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<p class="post-p" name="5926">Here is why that is important:</p>
<p class="post-p" name="47da">You like things. You like things enough to try to somehow smother bad things so there will be nothing but good things. The person who made this thing also likes things.
<p class="post-p" name="c121">So.</p>
<p class="post-p" name="76e6">Let them keep trying. Let them do so in as supportive an environment as you can give them. And here is what will happen: Their things will get better.
<p class="post-p" name="91a6">You may be thinking HEY I CAN SAY WHATEVER I WANT
<p class="post-p" name="9587">So please do all you can to keep your input constructive and selfless. And watch what happens.</p>
<p class="post-p" name="e98e">For years, people have put up with this stuff, saying
<p class="post-p" name="6277">This is how
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<p class="post-p" name="11ac">If you can make or have made something better than the thing you think is lame, then post that thing. You might be thinking
<p class="post-p paragraph--last notesSource--hasnotes" name="d6b9">This is how things get better. This is how we get better</p>
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