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Re:Feedback Is Rarely a Gift by marginalia_nu on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:18AM (#36112199)
I think an important insight about any sort of mass communication is that there isn't a reaction to what you put out there, but a spectrum of reactions.

You tell the best joke in the world and out of 100 people, fifty will laugh, thirty will smile, fifteen will not get it at all, and five will be raging mad and posting on twitter about how you should be tried for crimes against humanity for some perceived insult. It's very easy to only focus on the last group.

Re:Feedback Is Rarely a Gift by stavros on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:45AM (#36115029)
This is an interesting viewpoint, and its corrolary is that the review says as much about your content as about the reviewer. Which means that you should take all reviews with a grain of salt, as they aren't entirely about you.
Re:Feedback Is Rarely a Gift by catach on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:42PM (#36118443)
> It's very easy to only focus on the last group.

Not just easy, pretty sure it's the default that negative feedback looms disproportionately larger in the mind. A bias one must recognize and actively work against.