Comments on: Do not feed the troll http://davesaunders.net/2009/09/do-not-feed-the-troll/ Harness the awesome power of your personal brand Mon, 21 May 2012 00:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dana Detrick from Serious Vanity Music http://davesaunders.net/2009/09/do-not-feed-the-troll/comment-page-1/#comment-3371 Dana Detrick from Serious Vanity Music Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:41:27 +0000 http://www.davesaunders.net/blog/2009/09/do-not-feed-the-troll/#comment-3371 Great points, Dave! I had a lot of the same early experiences back in the usenet and early web forum days. I consider myself lucky enough to be naive at the time, where I would boldly put things 'out there', and got a lot of mixed responses. This allowed me to toughen my skin up early on, which serves me well now. The more you create a 'niche' online and reach your best audience, the less you deal with it...but the catch-22 is that the more successful you become, the more you draw naysayers wanting to discredit what all the fuss is about. Social networking is *not* passive. Passive-aggressive? You bet, at times! But the less you emotionalize both the bad *and* good feedback (getting a big head over your successes will just slow or stall you), the more you can continue to utilize it to its fullest extent. Great points, Dave! I had a lot of the same early experiences back in the usenet and early web forum days. I consider myself lucky enough to be naive at the time, where I would boldly put things ‘out there’, and got a lot of mixed responses. This allowed me to toughen my skin up early on, which serves me well now. The more you create a ‘niche’ online and reach your best audience, the less you deal with it…but the catch-22 is that the more successful you become, the more you draw naysayers wanting to discredit what all the fuss is about.

Social networking is *not* passive. Passive-aggressive? You bet, at times! But the less you emotionalize both the bad *and* good feedback (getting a big head over your successes will just slow or stall you), the more you can continue to utilize it to its fullest extent.

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