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Okay, maybe I should explain myself, since I didn't want to come off anti-free-speech. I'm just against what I like to call "the double-jackassery cycle"; when an artist creates something that gets insulting or even threatening comments, and they respond in kind with insults and threats.


 
As a novice fanfiction writer myself, I can say first-hand, it hurts a little when someone leaves a negative comment without even saying what they didn't like, but I always do my best to ignore them, or politely thank them for their time if I think they deserve it. The effort it takes to be frustrated about your work's poor reception is better spent actually improving your work to avoid more hate in the future. The same goes for the commenters; the leess time you spend writing unhelpful flames is more time you can spend finding things you actually like.


 
In summery, yes, both sides have _*the_* _*right_* to be jackasses, but that doesn't mean they should; it just ends up with them looking like immature little whiners, and no one will take them seriously. Or maybe I'm just too Canadian. Who knows.
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Okay, maybe I should explain myself, since I didn't want to come off anti-free-speech. I'm just against what I like to call "the double-jackassery cycle"; when an artist creates something that gets insulting or even threatening comments, and they respond in kind with insults and threats.

As a novice fanfiction writer myself, I can say first-hand, it hurts a little when someone leaves a negative comment without even saying what they didn't like, but I always do my best to ignore them, or politely thank them for their time if I think they deserve it. The effort it takes to be frustrated about your work's poor reception is better spent actually improving your work to avoid more hate in the future. The same goes for the commenters; the lees time you spend writing unhelpful flames is more time you can spend finding things you actually like.

In summery, yes, both sides have _the_ _right_ to be jackasses, but that doesn't mean they should; it just ends up with them looking like immature little whiners, and no one will take them seriously. Or maybe I'm just too Canadian. Who knows.
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