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[MaximumZero]

Personalsad: having the longest 5 hour shift ever. I've talked to one customer over two hours. How do office supplies stores stay in business?

Also, what Solifuge said.

[Gentlefish]

I have not enough money to do all the cool things I want to.
When I get paid again I shall have to re-organize my spending for maximum coolness.
Also money for food would probably be a plus... Meh, I'm more worried about missing a cool gig tonight. :¢ Gonna have to make up for that tomorrow.

Yeah that's me too. I'm going to Canada to visit my lady and I want to have money and also not be eye-scratchingly broke.

[Vector]

there is tea running down my sleeve and I just don't fucking care anymore

I didn't know you bleed tea Vector. 

Joking aside, what happened?

Kind of sick, made myself some tea, and I'm clumsy so I spilled it all over myself without really noticing.

Also I took some Nyquil last night and slept thirteen hours, and now I feel like shit in the way you uniquely do upon drugging yourself and waking up at 2:30 PM.

[Bauglir]

How do office supplies stores stay in business?

I assume that they hold banks hostage for bailouts. If the supply stores go out of business, the banks will rapidly run out of their primary raw materials for business.

now I feel like shit in the way you uniquely do upon drugging yourself and waking up at 2:30 PM.

Big cup of water and an extreme temperature change have been helpful for me here. That's happened to me... too often. At least the sleep 13 hours part. The drugging part is rarer since I reduced the booze intake. Take a hot shower, when you're done drop to cold, perhaps?

[Vattic]

People saying mean things about me on the internet. Some shame and shock at my upset too.

[Bdthemag]

People saying mean things about me on the internet. Some shame and shock at my upset too.

It's the internet, whether or not you believe it should be that way it's going to happen. Depending on the situation either dismiss it as stupid, baseless insults or see it as a crude, yet potentially effective form of criticism.

[kaijyuu]

It's generally best to ignore anything with vitriol. If they were actually trying to give constructive criticism, they wouldn't use insults.

[Bdthemag]

It's generally best to ignore anything with vitriol. If they were actually trying to give constructive criticism, they wouldn't use insults.

Any kind of criticism is good criticism, you just have to learn not to get offended easily. Constructive criticism is much more useful granted, but if you find yourself ignoring all kinds of criticism that isn't constructive, you'll end up eventually ignoring the constructive kind as well.

But seriously, it's the internet. It sucks to be insulted, but just suck it up and take it all in stride.

[Vector]

Slippery slope fallacy.

[Bdthemag]

Slippery slope fallacy.

Fallacist's Fallacy.

[Vector]

You have a cogent argument for "ignoring non-constructive criticism will lead you to ignore all criticism?"

[Bdthemag]

You have a cogent argument for "ignoring non-constructive criticism will lead you to ignore all criticism?"

I was just showing how easy it was to reply to a statement by just stating a fallacy.

[Vattic]

Usually I have thicker skin. Some of it was arguably constructive, but stemmed mostly from a difference in taste. I doubt they thought I'd even read it (internet feeling both private and public despite usually being the latter).

[Frumple]

Any kind of criticism is good criticism

Let's go with "no" for a thousand, Alex.

Unfounded criticism is as bad as it is useless, and should be rejected out of hand. It serves no purpose for anyone but the critic (if that), and considering it is a waste of time and effort.

And while not a hundred percent correlation, I've found a very strong negative trend between use of vulgarity and insult and the usefulness of criticism. As one goes up, the other tends to go down proportionately. There's exceptions, of course, but they're rare -- and usually only effect the intensity of the trend, not its existence.

Especially if you're having to deal with a large body of such things, or your ability to filter data is time constrained, it's highly likely that adopting the heuristic "reject criticism that includes insults and/or vulgarity" is one that is going to effect the benefit you gain from considering what criticism you deal with very, very little.

[Bdthemag]

I wasn't even trying to get into the argument of what is and isn't good criticism, I was just trying to say that if you got upset or deeply offended by everything directed at you on the internet, you'd be upset on a nearly daily basis. Should it be that way? Arguable either way depending on your point of view. If you don't want it to upset you as much, then either you change how people on the internet act or just learn to ignore it.