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It's hard to rage against you when you respond so nicely!


This is a general lesson: whenever someone criticizes something you've built, be extremely polite and you'll deflate their ill-conceived anger at you. Several times I've received angry emails about a (free) web site I run, like "your site is sh*t", or "I give you a D", and I look for whatever's legitimate about their complaints. If there's nothing worth doing based on their complaints, then I just thank them for their feedback and say I'm sorry it didn't do what they wanted. None of those people has ever written me a second time.

So bravo to mbs348 for ignoring mikemarotti's use of "bullshit" and "lazy" and just getting out of his comments that you could improve your captions.




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