I am a firm believer in a person’s ability to acquire a new skill through practice, repetition and assiduous application of one’s mind and energy. Thus, I believe I have become better at ignoring comments online on sites like YouTube, TikTok and elsewhere. I have more work to do to truly become bullet proof from… Continue reading Developing the skill of ignoring comments
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The comments would wear you down
The comments you read online would wear you down. The constant, drip-drip effect of misinformed, ignorant, racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist comments would turn your stomach. Sometimes yo wonder about continuing to publish videos on topics outside of a narrow, legal area of law. But narrowing down my focus would not work. Because many of the… Continue reading The comments would wear you down
Deleting comments-no apology
My videos on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and elsewhere generate a huge amount of comments. Most of the comments are genuine insofar as they are an expression of opinion on the topic I have covered in the video. Whether the opinions agree with mine or not, I don’t care, quite frankly. However, a small minority of… Continue reading Deleting comments-no apology
Ignoring comments-the rationale
I am generating so many comments on so many platforms with some of my videos now that the best thing to do is ignore them. Good or bad, just ignore them. You could get bogged down and distracted by negative comments, and falsely emboldened by positive, fawning ones, that the best strategy is probably to… Continue reading Ignoring comments-the rationale
The benefit in the sick, odious comments
There is a real benefit, albeit a painful experience, in seeing the comments on my videos when I publish them on YouTube and Facebook. No matter what the issue is there are always a great deal of diametrically opposed viewpoints. Some of them would, quite frankly, make you sick and angry. Some, however, would make… Continue reading The benefit in the sick, odious comments