LostLibrarian
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Honestly, to me it's those who are harsh and wrong.The worst criticisms are the ones that are harsh and true.
If they are true, I can take it and see whether it's a problem with the story or if my writing just isn't for that reader. But I also have reviews out there who say stuff that simply isn't true or where the reader didn't understand the point. Hurts me more, because that might push off possible readers through bullshit reasons...
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Worst "criticism" I had was on RR a few years ago. Wrote a story about a slave rebellion and 10 or so chapters in someone came, "reviewed" every chapter with page long comments about how everything sucks, everything is shit, how I should go kill myself, etc. One of the things where the reader wanted it to be a different story and everything that didn't go as he wanted was a mistake by default...
I stopped responding to the comments, so he started to sent me private messages, he got banned and just created new accounts to continue. More or less pushed me off RR and online writing for more than a year, because I had like 100 readers, 3 commenters and that giant pile of negativity I couldn't handle back then...