The simple truth is that some posts are better than others. Some topics excite, or move us, or rile us up more than others. And sometimes, when we’re immersed in what we’re reading, we’re swept away by feelings that range from “Right on! I’m so with you on this” or “This is written so amazingly well, if this post was a person, I’d totally ask it out on a date”, to “Fool! You haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about” or “This person can’t write for s*it”.
If it’s the former, and you feel like praising the writer for a post you really enjoyed, there’s no wrong way to write positive feedback. The writer will always appreciate nice things being said about their post.
But if it’s the latter, and you’ve just read something that annoyed you or that you vehemently disagree with — you may feel compelled to criticize it, so you do.
The problem is, there’s a wrong and right way to leave a ‘negative’ comment, and if do it the wrong way, more often than not you’ll be the one that both the writer and other people reading the comments will deem the real a*hole in this scenario.
Imagine you published a post in a public forum, and someone came along and left a scathing, embarrassing, nasty or generally demoralizing and thoroughly unhelpful comment on it. If it’s someone you don’t know, you’d likely be thinking “who the hell is this moron who thinks he knows me well enough to talk to me like I care about what he’s got to say?” — and you’d be right.
That’s not to say that your post doesn’t deserve criticism, but usually people listen to and heed criticism only from people they look up to or whom they feel have the right sort of expertise to be critiquing the post in the first place. They don’t tend to appreciate negative feedback from total strangers unless it’s done tactfully and with a positive spin.
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Why Leaving Negative Comments on Other People’s Posts Is Lame
Is it because you feel like venting and this seems like a good opportunity to let off steam? Then stick your head in the fridge for a couple of minutes and cool off. Don’t ruin someone else’s day just because you weren’t able to step away from the keyboard in the heat of the moment.
Or is it because you want to show off among other commenters by belittling someone else with your so-called smarts? Don’t. It’s way lame. Write your own brilliant post rather than crashing someone else’s comment thread to tout hoity toity witticisms. Most people will see right through it.
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