Scathing Comments

[ErinHill226]

Originally Posted by rjweaver10

How ironic that I was just coming to put something like this up. I got the nastiest comment today. Considering, it was a rewrite and it's his content. I love when they say you didn't give me what I wanted. This is the comment I got in my inbox today. Thank you client and see ya around.

Hey What?????????????


The money has been sent!

You and I both know what you did was not worthy $10.00.

I was only trying to be nice, by paying you for a poor effort. Yet you're
going to bug me about paying you for a bad job!

I was going to pay you, I had to go out of town yesterday, just got back.

I am use to working with professionals not kids that have all kinds of
little funny faces in their email.

When you know you did a bad job you shouldn't press people for payment.

Not lol!



Sincerely,

Um... Just...wow. WTF is up with that guy/gal?

If you don't like what a contractor does, I would say the professional thing to do would be to ask for revisions. And the condescending thing about "kids?" Puh!

I also LOVE how the person acts as if $10 is some awesome high end rate that only the best of the best writers have the right to charge. Quite frankly, an article would have to be pretty darn bad not to be worthy of ten friggin' bucks. Just let these comments roll off your back. You know what you're worth, and this person obviously has issues.

[karmicwindows]

Originally Posted by Ella R.

As for the comment on your article Bobbie..I think it's a sign of good journalism if you elicit that kind of reaction, especially when it comes to sensitive political issues. Even the New York Times writers get attacked on a regular basis..it's just a part of the job

Thank you, Ella. I know that when I hit certain cords I'm doing my job right, at least mostly.

Most of the time bad comments or reviews don't bother me, just every once in a while, I get one so brutal it takes my breath away.

Thank you, everyone for letting me have my rant and being supportive.

Fortunately, I do a good impression of a duck and let the dirty water roll off my back. After spending time doing other work the sting has gone and the comment has been put into perspective.


CJ, I sympathize with your client being a complete jerk. Maybe it's something in the air today.

[daytonjenn]

I actually had/have a guy that I call my "stalker". He kept leaving comments on all of my haunted articles like, "you know OTHER people wrote about this first right?" or "you really shouldn't steal other people's work". I guess he assumed that because he runs a site on haunted places that he is the only author allowed to write about the topic. I have a book on haunted places and I wonder if he ever stumbled across it and threw a temper tantrum in the store LOL.

There was one article I wrote because my best friend went to this college and told me about one of the big ghost stories. I read about it online and since it was such a cool story with a lot of history, I wrote an article on it. One of my comments was a rant from an author, saying that I completely got the story wrong. The person left several comments, each one saying that I wrote the article wrong, that wasn't what happened, etc. It was funny because former students found the article and posted about how that was the story/legend going around when they were in school. Some were alumni from 20 years ago and some were current students. The original commenter came back and started telling everyone that they were wrong/stupid/idiots/etc. I think at one point, the commenter even accused me of posting as other people to make him look bad!

[VeronicaM]

Yes, I've had someone post negative comments on my articles.

I wrote my first articles for eHow's WCP in the summer of 2009. A few months later, someone posted a spiteful comment on one of my articles and gave all of my articles one stars. It made me a little sad. However, when I talked about the experience on the forums, I was told that one-star bandits were quite common on eHow.

[TexasMel]

Many years ago I submitted a story to one of Marion Zimmer Bradley's short story anthologies and got back a letter from MZB that was a two page rant about how bad my writing was, etc, etc. I don't know what I did to set her off but it was REALLY nasty.

However -- the day before that one came was an acceptance from Mike Resnick into one of HIS anthologies. He heaped praise on my lil' head and said I had a solid writing career ahead of me if I kept with it.

So -- some people will hate your writing. Some will love it. However, the world judges your writing worthy of publication. Don't take the critics to heart.

[msuggitt]

This peach probably has a number of prefab emails to distribute to the various workers as they approach him for pay. He's probably betting that a certain number will not bother to collect their entitled money

Meanwhile while he's ranting and bullying and making ignorant remarks, he's probably using all the work done without ever paying full value.

And while everyone is stewing over the rude emails - he's probably lining up his next victim - someone he deems unworthy or less than him.

Good Riddance to this One....