Why I Feel It Is Important To Reply To Negative Comments

Even though I may be shouting into the void.

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In November I published my most successful article on Medium. It’s about why we didn’t like traveling in Egypt. Of course, since it has a negative spin, it is getting huge read time and I’m making good money on it. Sad that my other 380 positive articles can’t do so well.

But hey, this is the world we live in, whether we like it or not.

Of course, an article like this is controversial, and I fully expected backlash. It has come in ways that I both expected and didn’t expect and has mostly just been entertaining. It amazes me that people can jump so quickly to conclusions about who I am and how we travel by reading one singular negative article.

At first, I ignored the hateful comments feeling like they didn’t deserve a response. But then Adrienne Beaumont mentioned to me that she comments back because it increases her reading time. Of course, this makes sense. The longer people are on my article, whether they are in the comments or not, it counts as reading time.

Though this is a nice side-effect of making them return over and over to my article, even though they hate what I have written (haha jokes on them!), it isn’t my primary…