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It's an unfortunate reality of sharing your work: Some people jump in to provide unwanted and unconstructive criticism. As a wise philosopher (OK, it was Taylor Swift) once put it, "Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate."In healthy communities, constructive feedback (even if it's critical) will vastly outnumber the hate. Yet even in those cases, the "nonconstructive" feedback is often louder and easily gets more attention. Therefore, knowing how to "shake it off, shake it off" (to again draw from Ms. Swift's song) is important.read more

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Something else to keep in mind is that you are reading the written(!) word ... you're not actually listening to spoken conversation as a forum participant "talks" to you.

There are always going to be a*sholes. Anywhere there are humans, there are a*sholes. (Actually, everybody has one ... unless they're really full of sh*t!)

You can't control what they say. But you can control how you react. (The best way to respond usually being ... "don't!")