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I Don’t Bring My Bad Days To Medium
Hating on others doesn’t make you any better.
By Grace K. Bianco
You are no better than that person. In fact, leaving a hate comment, makes me believe that you’re probably much worse.
When I was an even smaller writer and had way less engagement, I received the most hate. I don’t understand it either, but I am not complaining. I will happily welcome the hateless faces on Medium to my page.
Although, I personally haven’t dealt with a hater in months, I know others haven’t been so lucky.
So many writers seem tense these days. I promise I won’t get into all of that. There are a thousand of other articles on Medium’s changes. I wrote a few myself when they first started happening. Is it the tension that is causing the nicer writers I know to be treated poorly? Is it the growing number of newcomers? Or have the haters just been in hibernation all of this time?
Whatever the reason is… I don’t believe it will ever be good enough. If you leave a snarky comment, you are polluting a very positive and kind community. What excuse can you make up for that??
