Attitudes

by Victoria Constant
2nd September 2013

Im not one to complain normally, however I have noticed someone rather rude on here. Normally people are friendly and if your work needs improvement (which mine does I wont lie) they say so jn a polite way; however the past few weeks I've noticed a few of the people not using the site and have been made quite upset by the way someone has commented on my work. If there is something you feel needs improving there is a way to say this, there is no need to be rude about it! Thank you to the people on this site who actually knkw that!

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I know exactly what you're talking about, Victoria. Fair enough, if something in a piece of work sits oddly with somebody they're allowed - encouraged - to highlight it, but there's never any reason why people should be rude as they do so. It's not their writing, and they don't know personally the people they're insulting. It's making me think twice about sharing work in the future, that's for sure - criticism should be constructive: encouraging, not discouraging!

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Some people are just mean. Not take it to personally :)

Half the time I think that people just want the reward points and don't care about what they are really saying.

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