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Re:Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and tha... by sgdesign on Saturday December 07, 2013 @09:15PM (#6868705)
You should also remember that anybody giving you a negative reaction might just be having a bad day for totally different factors. This is especially true on social media, where it's so easy to blow off some steam by writing a snarky remark without thinking about how it's going to be interpreted.

So whenever someone isn't very nice with me, I prefer to assume that they're a nice person who just happens to have bumped their toe into a table leg or something.

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Re:Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and tha... by NAFV_P on Saturday December 07, 2013 @11:07PM (#6868915)
So whenever someone isn't very nice with me, I prefer to assume that they're a nice person who just happens to have bumped their toe into a table leg or something.

Nice persons tend to apologise, if they don't apologise they are probably arseholes.

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Re:Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and tha... by gky2 on Sunday December 08, 2013 @01:31AM (#6869152)
I think that's probably situational. There could be aspects in which they couldn't apologize. If the person really is in a bad mood, it's unlikely that they'll turn around a few minutes later, suddenly feeling better and then being apologetic. And it could also be the case that the person was just a random person who could never contact you again to apologize.

I really like the article overall. It seems somewhat like common sense, and even reading it, I know the next time I bump into a situation like this, it'd still be difficult for me to see it this way.

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Re:Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and tha... by NAFV_P on Sunday December 08, 2013 @03:49AM (#6869309)
Well, I tend to apologise straight away. Perhaps I've spent a lot of my life surrounded by arseholes... Yes, I have spent my life surrounded by arseholes.
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