Comments on: How To Address Negative Comments & Feedback About Your Crowdfunding Campaign https://www.causevox.com/blog/addressing-negative-comments-about-crowdfunding-campaign/ Online fundraising and donor management Wed, 08 May 2024 17:54:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rob Wu https://www.causevox.com/blog/addressing-negative-comments-about-crowdfunding-campaign/#comment-286 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:44:00 +0000 https://www.causevox.com/?p=5910#comment-286 In reply to John Deever.

What I’ve learned is that when things escalate, sometimes it helps to pause and take a moment before posting things that may be hurtful. Thanks John for the insight into your experiences!

]]> By: Rob Wu https://www.causevox.com/blog/addressing-negative-comments-about-crowdfunding-campaign/#comment-288 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:44:00 +0000 https://www.causevox.com/?p=5910#comment-288 In reply to John Deever.

What I’ve learned is that when things escalate, sometimes it helps to pause and take a moment before posting things that may be hurtful. Thanks John for the insight into your experiences!

]]> By: John Deever https://www.causevox.com/blog/addressing-negative-comments-about-crowdfunding-campaign/#comment-285 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:59:00 +0000 https://www.causevox.com/?p=5910#comment-285 As someone who is guilty of having left negative and mean-spirited comments on many things, many times over the years, I appreciated this sound advice. When I wrote hurtful things, sometimes it was because I was unhappy with myself that day, or had a loosened tongue thanks to imbibing a bit, or I was angry about a whole confused ball of personal things that I was unable to untangle, and so I lashed out on the Internet at whatever target of my wrath I happened to come across that day. Being mean was easy, it provided me with a release I needed, and it was relatively anonymous and cost me nothing but a few seconds of typing. Maybe a lot of people are like that sometimes — upset and needing to express feelings they themselves don’t understand. I remember belittling somebody one time, and when I read his hurt and calmly argued response to my rant, I wrote him back to retract it all and tell him that I had some difficult things going on in my life, and although it was no excuse, I asked him to accept my apology, which he did. We both felt better after that … but again, at the time I wrote my rant, I had felt it necessary to try to say. (I lost a child that year. Still in a lot of pain about it.) Most of us would not do in person what the Internet frees us to do, and the tips in this piece seem sensible and wise to me — one of the perpetrators as described.

]]> By: John Deever https://www.causevox.com/blog/addressing-negative-comments-about-crowdfunding-campaign/#comment-287 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:59:00 +0000 https://www.causevox.com/?p=5910#comment-287 As someone who is guilty of having left negative and mean-spirited comments on many things, many times over the years, I appreciated this sound advice. When I wrote hurtful things, sometimes it was because I was unhappy with myself that day, or had a loosened tongue thanks to imbibing a bit, or I was angry about a whole confused ball of personal things that I was unable to untangle, and so I lashed out on the Internet at whatever target of my wrath I happened to come across that day. Being mean was easy, it provided me with a release I needed, and it was relatively anonymous and cost me nothing but a few seconds of typing. Maybe a lot of people are like that sometimes — upset and needing to express feelings they themselves don’t understand. I remember belittling somebody one time, and when I read his hurt and calmly argued response to my rant, I wrote him back to retract it all and tell him that I had some difficult things going on in my life, and although it was no excuse, I asked him to accept my apology, which he did. We both felt better after that … but again, at the time I wrote my rant, I had felt it necessary to try to say. (I lost a child that year. Still in a lot of pain about it.) Most of us would not do in person what the Internet frees us to do, and the tips in this piece seem sensible and wise to me — one of the perpetrators as described.

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