I only hope when and if you are published, you are more thoughtful to the people who review you than you have been to me.
Umm, that doesn't work the way you want it to. Because you're the author and I'm the reviewer. So, you're the one who initiated the thoughtlessness here. I think you should be saying, "I hope you're more professional with reviewers than I have been" - because that actually reflects events as they have happened.
Replying to reviews makes you look little. It makes you look petty. It makes you look as though you have no ability to deal with anyone disagreeing with you. It makes you look as though you have nothing better to do than to try to control other people's opinions through arguing rather than trying to change them by writing better books.
And if it looks like a duck long enough, it might just be a duck.
I don't expect you will ever find that out.
Is that supposed to be an insult to me? Is this your version of "I'm taking my toys and going home?" Because if so, please know that I am laughing at you. A lot.
There are so many books out there, and frankly, I have neither the inclination nor energy to waste my time on books written by authors who engage in fuckmuppetry on the internet.
If you were in my position, would you ever read anything by you again?
i still do not understand the "privacy" issue here. Your review was for public consumption. I expected my replies to be as well.
There is no privacy issue. There is the issue of you apparently having an entire other conversation in your head that we are not having here.
Yes, my review is for public consumption. And yes, you're free to respond (within the limits I set here, because it's my space) - but I'm telling you that you're making yourself look really bad right now.
You're the one who should want this to be private, because you're coming off extremely badly.
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Umm, that doesn't work the way you want it to. Because you're the author and I'm the reviewer. So, you're the one who initiated the thoughtlessness here. I think you should be saying, "I hope you're more professional with reviewers than I have been" - because that actually reflects events as they have happened.
Replying to reviews makes you look little. It makes you look petty. It makes you look as though you have no ability to deal with anyone disagreeing with you. It makes you look as though you have nothing better to do than to try to control other people's opinions through arguing rather than trying to change them by writing better books.
And if it looks like a duck long enough, it might just be a duck.
I don't expect you will ever find that out.
Is that supposed to be an insult to me? Is this your version of "I'm taking my toys and going home?" Because if so, please know that I am laughing at you. A lot.
There are so many books out there, and frankly, I have neither the inclination nor energy to waste my time on books written by authors who engage in fuckmuppetry on the internet.
If you were in my position, would you ever read anything by you again?
i still do not understand the "privacy" issue here. Your review was for public consumption. I expected my replies to be as well.
There is no privacy issue. There is the issue of you apparently having an entire other conversation in your head that we are not having here.
Yes, my review is for public consumption. And yes, you're free to respond (within the limits I set here, because it's my space) - but I'm telling you that you're making yourself look really bad right now.
You're the one who should want this to be private, because you're coming off extremely badly.