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Well, being ridiculed by people in Reddit is something honorable. Who cares what they think about you?

Don't lose your time with these people. Take a video camera and explain what you do for people in the internet, youtube and vimeo...

Better, you could create a cool kickstarter project in which by the way, you explain better what you do.

Never forget that being able to tell stories is one of the most important abilities humans have, since hunters met at fire in the dark of the ancient night.

Now FOCUS ON FEELING THE LOVE, not the pain. In my business the customer support people used to ignore thousands of satisfied customers letters to focus in the couple of crazy ones.

Don't dedicate neurons to them, don't think yourself the object of Internet ridicule, because we see only validation. Find yourself as the object of respect and love. You have my respect and validation and lots of other people's too. Search for it and you will find it.




Sure, we all know that we should ignore people that get us down. It's a lot easier for some than for others to put that into practice.


The first step for that is to acknowledge it.

Could you believe the people in customer service had not realized what they were doing?

They were going home depressed, feeling so bad, because this focusing made them live this reality.

Just making them notice and putting some simple rules made a world of difference.It was also much better for our customers.


I know someone who did what you described, she was a scam artist. She intentionally used the "no press is bad press" tactic to grab attention, then started a baseless kickstarter project on the wave to fund bogus projects.

Come to think of it, that fits the description of many people.




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