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edgework is quite correct.

I think if you are on this site for long enough you are going to get those 'reviews' which say pretty much nothing, but are just a knee-jerk emotional reaction to your work; a reaction which has no thought or reason behind it.

I have had the odd review where the reviewer has been rather disparaging of my work without any adequate explanation of why they dislike it and given only one star to a poem or story where 99% reviewers have given the piece a 4.5 or 5-star rating.

That kind of negativity could either be simple envy, or one could evoke Hanlon's Razor which says: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

This site is open to teenagers as young as 13. There are some of that age who are definitely lacking in any maturity and who are still profoundly ignorant.

I feel your pain, but just know that however many idiots there are here at WDC there are many more people whose opinions are worth having. Ignore those reviewers who have nothing to offer in the way of considered opinion and value those who do.

Have a great weekend.