BOOK FANS: This author made so many mistakes, and I'm going to write about it all over the internet, and this author really needs to learn from these mistakes AUTHOR: *reads feedback BOOK FANS: OMG WHY DID YOU READ THIS FEEDBACK, THIS WASNT A SPACE FOR YOU. GET OUT OF HERE!!! AUTHOR: *stops reading feedback and continues to make the same mistakes

BOOK FANS: OMG WHY DIDNT YOU LOOK AT AND LEARN FROM THE FEEDBACK I SAID YOU WERENT ALLOWED TO READ??? I think criticism should always be aimed at helping the author improve or at least identifying issues in their work for them to avoid in the future. Why would anyone want to be able to criticize someone behind their back without their ability to learn from that feedback and improve from it?

This is something I will never understand about our book community...

If authors (who aren't being rude) can't look at critcism, how are they supposed to improve?

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