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I think the fact that she got upset is very bad. If some one criticizes your project, that's good. That means, you can ask for feedback and either you learn something new or you realise the person that criticized you wasnt that smart.

If you want to see someone fail their entire life, just never let them know what they are doing wrong.

or.. criticize them once, so they dont have to fail again in the future.

This is old news, criticism is the nice thing to do.

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Those tweets weren’t constructive criticism, they were the kind of insults petty, insecure people hurl at others to inflate their own egos and assert dominance.

That's good. Now she knows she might be doing something wrong or can determine that these people are idiots. Either way, you learn something.

Nobody is disputing that offering helpful feedback is helpful but that is clearly not what happened here.

None of them stood up and said "Hey, have you considered doing X instead of Y?" or "Z might be a better approach, here's my reasoning". They just took the opportunity to make it, and by extension her, into a joke. I can completely understand being upset in that case.

If you are going to criticise, at the very least be constructive. Otherwise you aren't helping anyone.

That's not at all what happened here. Criticism implies that there were any useful hints on what exactly is bad or should be done differently, instead of vague ridicule and insults. And BTW, excusing asshole behavior like that is not a good thing to do.

She actually tweeted back both of them asking for details, a level of understanding neither tweet actually merited (but still a good strategy), and got no answer.

There, now you won't even need to read TFA :)

If they are just insults, u can just ignore them right? I mean.. you're an adult.

You can also, like an adult, confront the other party with what they did and, as in this case, get them to reflect on their words and retract them, making your environment a little bit better in the process. You all are just hating on her because she admitted to having emotions, an adolescent take on the situation if anything.

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