Five Types of Mean Comments You May Encounter On Medium
On a platform without a dislike button, I think comments are important…yet I can understand why some people disable them
I had a high school English teacher who was not great, so a lot of her students wrote negative reviews on RateMyTeachers. Magically, all of her negative reviews disappeared, and all of her positive reviews remained. I vowed to get revenge on her by promoting free speech and never banning mean comments.
Well…kind of. Whether websites like Facebook and Twitter are bound by free speech laws is the subject of some debate. I recall an article on The Onion joking about how free speech is something the United States’ founding fathers absolutely had in mind when they drafted the YouTube Terms of Service in 1776.
In my personal experience, only popular articles elicit fierce criticism. It is almost like everyone who writes mean comments has a notification system that informs them when to strike, a bit like the Bat Signal.
All of the comments that follow pertain to a single post. To give you some context, it was basically a post arguing that the software engineer job search is difficult. I do not think it was particularly opinionated — it mostly stated facts and told anecdotes — but…
