Why are their so many poetry bashers here (isn't there enough of that in R&S + Politics)?

Question

This is the third time I've seen people bashing others.....others who I consider artists...I really wonder what that's all about.....

Answer 1

Yes people can be blunt, Some people just want to hurt someone else and then there are people who give an honest opinion and they just cannot handle it. It is not always going to be nice and you just have to accept it because the real world is sometimes harsh

Answer 2

They feed off the rise they get out of people.  The problem is that I tend to cater to their hunger.  I do try to be a bit tactful when responding to trolls though.

Answer 3

I don't mind harsh but thoughtful criticism. The harshest and worst criticism of any kind is to have one's work ignored and not responded to.

Answer 4

Both the prior posters are correct.  I might add that I  do believe that there are some folks who take a gleeful approach in bashing.

No concrete reason...just 'because'.  Perhaps it's that they have nothing better to do with their time. Then again, it appears to be a sign of our times.  Shame that.

Answer 5

Really.  You've never heard of people bashing?

Hmmm.  

As long as there are people in the world, there are going to be those who get off on stepping on others to make themselves feel better.  With that said, this is a poetry critiquing area and there are bound to be some negative critiquing.  Hopefully that's done with some taste and diplomacy but in the big wide world (hello this is the world wide web) having everybody be nice just isn't a feasible way of looking at things.  I wish everybody was nice but alas I don't run the world. :O(

Answer 6

Its like algal bloom they come and go. Its a free country after all.