Topic: Attacks and Criticism (Read 320 times)

Not necessarily at all. People can have different ideas, perspectives or knowledge on a matter, and therefore express their counter opinion. In general terms, that is something that should be appreciated, as it’s not infrequent for people to write things that are wrong or misleading, often unintentionally. As a reader, it’s better to view contrasted information than to take for granted everything we read, though over time, you may tend to take a closer shine to some specific people’s comment/views.

Once you quote, edit the text within the quote freely to leave the pertinent parts, as I’ve done above.

I am not here for meritocracy but to learn and do my investment and trading..but if one likes my threads, he will appreciate me. Meritocracy must be given to the deserve personalities.

I don't even know the Rich222 and Edith1994 personalities. I only see Edith1994 in this forum as for Rich222 I have not even seen the post of the person.

I am not here to dislike anyone but to like everyone, that is one love...

Sir I don't know how to quote individual line of an article here in this forum. What should I do. Teach me.

People and their feelings.....

If your audience cannot understand the context of your post as you claim then explain it further. If you cannot argue anymore or you feel like your true message still isn't understood then you can hit the ignore button. You don't need to be too emotional about online comments or feedback.

This is just common in online, you have to get used to it. Haven't you faced the same while posting something on Instagram or Facebook? There will be always someone is going to comment against you so just accept and move on. If you still feel it is hurting you then you can create self moderated threads so you can set your own local rules but don't get this as an advantage to spam or scam.

Bitcointalk give and respect the freedom of speech to everyone no matter either its a newbie account or legendary account the rules are same for everyone here.

And whose fault is that? If most people didn't understand your context, do you think most people are incompetent and/or illiterate, or is there something wrong with the way you presented it?

Most likely, you failed to contextualize the information and ended up blaming the entire community for your mistake. I suggest you to take your content back to the drawing board and try to articulate the context of the situation accurately in future.

I am not sure what particular thread were you attacked as you started many topics in different boards and I am not going to bother reading each and everyone's reply there to find it out.
If you think that the "criticism" isn't sort of constructive, ignore button is there at your disposal if you feel that it is an "attack" not a constructive criticism.
Welcome to the internet, OP. You'll meet every sorts of people that you can imagine.

that should be one of your major priority, is to observe and learn from your observations, no one was perfect or hundred percentage sure or standard when the person come to the forum, so it was gradual process everyone is acquainted to the environment, devote out time to read comments and topics made by the superior ones, i think it will speed up your development to the community.

see avoid making title that did not relates with the body composition of your texts, no one will complain without notifying a fault, but from your own views you are seeing it or understanding it as a criticism, if someone criticized your thread try to fish out the reason is criticizing your work from his response, at least you will adjust with those minor fault that's unknown or undetectable to you but known to another user.

Now what's the point you wanted to express? It's merit right? as you mentioned above.

If people giving merit to the user opposite your opinions, that's mean he's right and you're wrong. But anyone doesn't always right and doesn't always wrong, so don't think if you made something wrong you'll always wrong.

However based on this particular thread you created, I smell you're wanted to grab merit. I'd think you're alt from Rich222 and Edith1994 I might be wrong, but it's suspicious.

Oh well you can dislike me since I criticizing you.

Hello OP, Sorry if anyone has hurt your feelings or affected your self esteem here...It may not have been their intention to. You have to understand that this is public space and there are a lot of people here from different backgrounds and orientations, whenever you post up a story, you have to make it convincing and of value...you also need to be sure of what you post...if criticism comes regardless, learn to handle it well, it is what is needed at times for growth.

as simple as that, there's no 2 ways about it if you can't take critics then you should take your life totally offline because you can't tame the way people react or the words the react with.

Even children from the same womb living in the same house do have misunderstandings talk more of people you know little or nothing about online here.

It does not make the writer a liar, mind you that someone could have good intentions, but still write an entire article wth erroneous and misleading information, would you rather other users allow such information to stand, or to correct such users so others do not take such information to be correct, to be honest i do not see a problem with that (correcting someone's mistake), it all falls under the process of learning, you make a mistake, you're put in the right way, you learn from it, and everything goes on fine; win-win situation for all.
I hope this post isn't about merits which is a subjective case, the real point here should be what is correct and what is not, and if we can take merits to be something given for quality posts, then it is only normal that the user who provides the most accurate information would get merits for their efforts, irrespective if it is the OP or not. If by the way the OP provides accurate information, then the user could likewise get merits for their efforts, but it is really subjective.

In general, "just wear a thicker skin".

Most of people don't even know how to use the forum and the sections.
I see many "oldbies" that should know way more than me using the marketplace for discussion and such.
Even some market sub sections like the altcoin market is filled with spam...
Either some people are lazy or they don't actually care where and what they post.
Which in most case brings no attention from people who can or want to help with their issues.
We are the one ruining the sections but also seems like there is lack of moderation in some sub sections.

I think this usually applies in desperate situations.  The person is vulnerable and it is easy to manipulate them.  Here, from what I have seen, it typically happens when members have been scammed and someone gets to scam them a second time.  They are so desperate for help that they get to be manipulated into a second one.

I also think there is a strong, clear differentiating line between feedback and telling someone to kill themselves when they are suicidal.  The latter is being plain stupid.  Feedback is something some people simply do not know how to welcome so they take it as such.

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I"ve been on this forum for a while now, and i must say that in general, i don't think people that who threaten to commit suicide would be a targeted by us. There might be individual cases, but this is a very big forum with thousands of active users, so it's unavoidable that stuff like this might happen once in a blue moon tough.

I've even seen those scammers beggars using sob stories involving suicide, death of family members, depression getting pointed towards more proper channels to get help. Even if we all know somebody is using a fake sob story to lure us into giving them free money, we usually don't react in a way that would drive somebody to commit suicide (we don't give them the money either).

I would say that what you describe would be an anomaly. It's not impossible, but i haven't witnessed somebody expressing suicidal toughts being made a laughing stock (even if we were all 99,99% sure it was a fake sob story).

What we do is correct people if they make mistakes. Some people are more direct than others, and people's feelings might get hurt... But like it's been said numerous times in this very thread: it's up to you to grow a thicker skin... If you are wrong, you are wrong... Sure it might be nice if somebody told you politely, but that's not always what happens, and you have to learn to live with that, or search a different forum i'm afraid.

@Agbe I apologize for all the mean words that people say to you on here please try not to take it to the heart and as for those saying criticism isn't something to take serious don't forget that we are all humans, some are strong and some are weak, try to be nice to people.

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Some people takes feedback very seriously, someone tried to take his own life on Facebook in 2019 and people started asking him that what is he waiting for? Calling him names on Facebook and the guy died few minutes later, instead of trying to talk him out of it they pour more gasoline into the fire, since this day I've learnt to be careful with my replies or comments online.

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But what's the point of sharing your experience via  forum if people wont share their opinion on it? You might as well share that on a blog.


Based on description, I guess that you are referring to A Disadvantage of Bitcoin Talk Forum and Crypto with the Cost of Smart Phone thread of yours in which I don't see people attacking you. Disagreeing yes, but that;';s how it goes on the forums. If you can't handle comments like in that thread you will have a very hard time here. My advice: grow thicker skin.

What might also be a good trick is to ask questions instead of spreading FUD or fake info.

What do i mean: pretty simple... If you write an article style post filled with bs, i'm going to call you out for it... I'm going to be relatively harsh because you're writing something as if you had any authority in the field, so it's pretty easy for a newbie to take your article for granted due to the fact it was written in a way that made it look like the article writer knew what he was talking about.
By calling you out, i'm merely protecting newbies... It has to be pretty clear to them that the article is filled with bs, so they do not have to take anything said in the article for granted. If i wasn't harsh or calling you out, newbies might think you were telling the truth and subsequently make mistakes that could cost them money.

On the other side: if you are not an authority, and you ask questions... But it's clear to everybody in the thread that it was, in fact, a question posted by a newbie that wanted to learn... I'm always inclined to either answer your question (rather politely if possible) or at least tell you the question has been asked hundreds of times before so you need to use the search function...

Don't be upset from the feedbacks but learn from it , it may help you what you need to improve and how you need to improve.

Maybe because a lot of times — it's actually true? If you know an industry well enough, it's pretty easy to see through people's BS.

Smh, another one of those "high ranks bullying newbies" merit complaint thread.

To do this, you need to learn how to create topics correctly, as well as correctly name them. If you are weak and cannot explain, no one is obliged to torture your brain with what you want to say. You come into society, and you must live by its rules, and not vice versa.
In addition, if you regularly take offense and do not take the advice of people who correct you, you will turn into a snowflake. The advice that has become the rule of this forum: get a thick skin.