Keep Your Negative Remarks to Yourself!

United States
August 29, 2016 6:14pm CST
Do you ever get responses to your discussion that do not, in any way, relate to the topic of your discussion but only criticizes the way you posted the discussion? I previously posted a discussion about an experience I had on Twitter. This one user responded to my discussion but said nothing about the topic of my discussion. It seems this user's sole purpose in responding was to tell me that I posted wrong on account that my paragraph was to long. I don't think it's all that long at all, but that's beside the point. The responder hopes I wasn't offended. I think this sort of response is rude. He/She didn't say anything about the topic I posted about, only responded to say that my post is too long and hard to read. Do you think this sort of behavior is rude?
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@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
29 Aug 16
I don't care...a response is a response Even if they are abusive it's a response and I can work with it...plus responses earn for you
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@akalinus (40440)
• United States
29 Aug 16
Negative responses are interactions.
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@JudyEv (325809)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Aug 16
I think it is rude unless the fault was glaringly obvious. A comment about your topic might have softened the criticism.
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@CinnamonGrl (7083)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
29 Aug 16
Yes, I do. Someone on here does something like that once in awhile and i always go "HUH?" They could at least reply to the topic.
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@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
29 Aug 16
Perhaps they were genuinely trying to help you - a solid block of text can be a little off-putting. Though they could have added their comment about it after they had responded to the topic.
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• United States
30 Aug 16
Perhaps, except I didn't ask for help. I post on here for fun, not to be nit picked, and I wasn't as if I'd broken any rules. That said, if they this responder had actually responded to the topic and then suggested that I break up my text more afterwards, I'd wouldn't have found it so rude.
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@akalinus (40440)
• United States
29 Aug 16
In all fairness, a big block of print is hard on the eyes. I did not see your discussion about Twitter but he should have commented on that, too.
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
29 Aug 16
The comment should have been on what you posted. If they had a problem with the way your discussion was posted then they could have private messaged you and not do it as a reply to your discussion. I thought your post was just fine.
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@lealuvy2j (1986)
• Philippines
29 Aug 16
Did this happen on twitter or mylot? If this happened on Mylot the response from that negative person would most likely be deleted because it is against the guidelines to criticize someone's way of posting.
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@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
30 Aug 16
That makes no sense at all. Why bother responding then. See, I don't like that either. Stick with the topic. First off, there is no such thing as a post being too long. I rather like them longer than those two sentence ones I see all the time.
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