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"Bawwww my negative comment was received negatively!"
GEE, YOU THINK?
You know what I'm talking about. Person A will criticize something and be told not to take it so seriously. Person B will praise it and get no such response. Person A then bitches that person B is obviously taking it just as seriously as they were, and should have been reprimanded for it. There are many variations on this behavior.
Another common scenario is for a spam comment like "this sucks" to get blasted, and then the poster try to point out that the comments like "cool!" and "I love this!" are equally valueless.
NO, asshats, that is not how anything ever works or ever should work. A negative response is perfectly appropriate for negative sentiments and a positive response is perfectly appropriate for a positive one. Nice things make people feel nice and unhappy things do not. It's not some fucking rocket science.
Worst of all, in my book, are people on art sites who will leave critiques that may be full of legitimate technical advice, but are cold and callous with no positive points at all. When called out on it, they invariably whine that reviews like theirs are needed for artists to improve themselves. No, fuck you, a kind and friendly review with the same advice isn't that fucking hard, you tactless infant.
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>Nice things make people feel nice and unhappy things do not.
Or, phrased differently: "That which praises the thing I like is good, that which criticizes it is bad, regardless of the intellectual rigor going into either side which, in theory, should be held as more important than how we feel about it."
If that's how you interpret it, then there's no hope for you
That isn't at all the point, and you're grossly over-thinking it.
A valid complaint with an obnoxious tone is worth no more respect than a completely baseless complaint.
> looks towards OP
>A valid complaint with an obnoxious tone is worth no more respect than a completely baseless complaint.
Can I use you to make Powerpoint presentations?
^^*hisssssssssssss*
Cygan has a point there.
My original point is that it's perfectly valid to reply to obnoxiousness obnoxiously, and that is what I do in my OP. I address rude comments in a rude fashion.
I have maintained solid consistency.
>Opens with high sarcasm in all caps.
>'asshats'
>General venemous prose style
>OP claims it's not abusive
Just sayin'.
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See, the OP is pretty grating, but image macros as a response have always been grating. Could we please not?
>Malk misses my entire point that bitching begets bitching and tries to call me hypocritical for doing exactly that
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If you think that "bitching begets bitching" is so bad, maybe you should try being the bigger man in this and, you know, stop bitching?
All I can really say is what I will always say: Regardless of how obnoxious someone is, if they're right, they're right. However, this doesn't mean that they're allowed to be obnoxious.
Welp. Uh. Yeah, I think I'll keep an eye on this thread for now.
^^^No, that's another thing that bugs me, the whole "you're just as bad if you sink to their level" argument.
It does matter who started a situation. It should be perfectly okay to be grumpy towards the grumpy, bigoted towards the bigoted, impolite to the impolite.
That's not to say that treating negative people kindly isn't better and more effective, but treating them lousy isn't unreasonable.
^^Did I make it seem like I was more vicious than I was? If so, I apologize. You said you didn't like the macro so I removed it. Wasn't trying to sound like I was unduly upset.
This isn't going anywhere good, and it never was.