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How to Handle Mean Comments

It is bound to happen, nowhere on the internet is safe from receiving mean comments from someone about something. For some people that is literally all they know how to do is to speak hate. And some say you have finally “made it” when you start getting haters.

First off, that is extremely sad. The fact that we have to just accept the mean comments and use them as a milestone of “making it”.

I usually receive nice comments or a lot of spam comments but I also haven’t been out in the spotlight much. I am the more laid back, stand in the back of the room kind of person. Which is hard to be and try and have a blog that brings in a lot of traffic.

Thousands of Page Views

Well, recently I had a pin go viral and it shot up to over 24k impressions in one day. I started to receive around 2,000 more page views a day from that one pin. Once I saw the spike in traffic I, of course, made a few more pins and two out of those three are taking off as well.

This showed me that it was the content of the blog post, not just the image that was driving them to my blog.

At first, it was just one big spike and then it started to trickle but then it picked back up again, thanks to Tailwind, and it has maintained for the last 5 days.

Random Blog Post

Sometimes we plan every detail of a blog post out and other times we just write something up quickly. I like to write as if I am talking to my audience. That can be good and bad.

I tend to ramble even though I feel like it is all relevant.

This blog post that took off was one of those that I just rambled on talking about a fun fact I had found.

Cue the Mean Comments

I didn’t realize it at first until I just happen to see on my pin that there were three comments. I read the comments and two of them were brutally honest about my blog post and how it was too long.

That hurt to read.

The third comment was someone saying “thanks now I don’t have to read this”. So based off of the two comments left that third person decided to not even read my post.

If they didn’t then I’m sure others weren’t either based on the opinion of two people that left a comment.

Take the High Road and Learn From Them

It took me a few minutes do decide not to delete the comments but to learn from them. I had just quickly put the post together. I had already planned on making changes so I went in and cut the fluffy, added a more relevant freebie, and moved around some other things.

I then went back to the pin and commented back thanking them for the constructive criticism (taking the high road). Hoping that would help show that I can handle things with my head held high.

I also hoped that would show anyone else that read the means comments and my reply, that it would still be worth reading to see how I fixed it. So far I have not received any more comments on that particular pin. And as of today, it has over 201k impressions for the month it has been up.

Just Hurtful

On my second popular pin for this blog post, I found three comments on it too. One was cutting to the chase on what my post was about. Another was just stating her opinion about something in my blog post. But the third was just mean.

She called my freebie ugly and that the blog post was a waste of time.

This isn’t something you can hold your head up high and learn from. I could learn from the first two comments on the other pin saying my post was too long.

I can’t, however, change my freebie because one lady thinks it’s ugly. Her comment was only left to be hurtful. There was no other goal behind it, she was just trying to hurt me.

So how do you handle comments like this?

Delete Mean Comments and Move On

I posted in two different blogging Facebook Groups seeking the advice of other bloggers and I received at least 60 total comments and they all said to delete it and move on.

Almost all of them had been in a similar situation and most congratulated me on “making it” by receiving haters and hateful comments.

It is very sad but it is the reality of life.

People are mean and I’m not sure exactly why but you can’t let them get to you. Which is much easier said than done.

Look at The Facts

I had to stop and look at the facts and remind myself this was one person and one comment on how she didn’t like my freebie. On the other hand, I had over 300 people sign up for that “ugly” freebie. So the numbers show that they all liked it!

I haven’t received any mean comments on the blog post or any emails back after getting the freebie. No one who actually went in, read the post, and downloaded the freebie complained. It was only that one person commenting on how she didn’t like my freebie on one of the pins that had over 100k impressions on it.

I had four pins go viral in one month from this blog post with a total of over 490k impressions combined. So the facts were showing that A LOT of people saw this pin and A LOT of people read the post and over 300 people signed up for the freebie.

I couldn’t let one person’s opinion get to me. (again much easier said than done)

There is a time to learn and take the mean comments as constructive criticism, and then there are times to look at the facts and delete those mean comments and move on.

Don’t Let Mean Comments Stop You

I love blogging. I know that I am not perfect. No one is perfect. But I still love to blog and share my tips and tricks I learn with others looking to start a blog too.

I have got frustrated and wanted to quit so many times but I keep coming back because it is something that I love to do. Whether I am making a bunch of money or no money I will always blog.

However, those mean comments really shook me. I hadn’t had mean comments and to receive those it did make me feel like I should throw in the towel.

Then I took time and really thought it over and I can’t believe I let them get to me like that. This is something I truly enjoy doing and it is my outlet.

No haters are going to stop that.

Happy blogging!

Vanessa