Haters Are Worth Your Time. Here’s How to Pick Apart Their Nasty Comments and Baseless Arguments

You’ll not only feel better but could also gain a new follower.

Carter Kilmann
The Startup
Published in
8 min readJul 26, 2021

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Fluff article.

I editorially suggest you take this article down.

Can you imagine if someone said that about your thoughts, feelings, and opinions? I can — because it was directed at my writing.

As a freelance writer, you have to get used to degrading and hostile comments. It comes with the territory.

Random people will despise your hard work. They’ll fundamentally disagree with what you have to say — and they’ll let you know about it. This person is commonly known as a hater, and believe it or not — you will have haters.

They’ll stink up the comment sections of your most prized articles. They’ll attack your intelligence, integrity, and anything else they can get their hands on. The more you write, the more they have access to.

And you will take it personally.

At least, you will at first.

You’ll want to fire back. You’ll want to pepper in more expletives than Samuel L. Jackson spits out in any given scene. You’ll wish you could get your hands on the internet troll that’s…

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Carter Kilmann
The Startup

Corporate banking drone turned freelance writer & editor. I write about personal finance, entrepreneurship, psychology, writing, and spontaneous allegories.