Quote:Ouch.
Quote:That's pretty rude of you to say, chipster. I kind of lost respect for you after saying that.
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"What matters is not what you did, but what you did after what you did."
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"While Josh is a great level designer, his brother is not very talented."
I made that post. At first I didn't understand why it was different from any of the other negative reviews I had posted, then it hit me. While previously, I simply attacked the level, this time, I attacked the designer himself. Woah. "Ouch" indeed.
I made a mess. I'll admit it. Now it is my responsibility to clean it up to the best of my ability. Which probably isn't much, considering how bad this mess is, but I have to try.
Looking back at this post, I feel angry. Angry at myself. I said at the start of the post: "I'm too slow..."
"This isn't a race," J.B. says. That's true. However, I considered this a race, so I just hurriedly posted my reviews so I could be finished with another pack. I did not reread them to rewrite comments that other members could potentially find offensive, like I had done for several packs already. Lame excuse, I know. In fact, it's not an excuse at all. But it's the truth, unfortunately.
And even if I had rewritten that comment to something like "I don't think [this designer]'s level aren't very good" it still would have been problematic. Because it's quite simply not true. I looked at the levels in BrandonL1, and realized that I had already voted for some of them, such as Fundamentals and Toggle Maze, and I had actually given them good ratings. The only difference was that for these other levels, I did not know he had made them, but for this one, I knew, because it was written in the hint. I was prejudiced against this designer, for no reason. This is getting worse.
Another thing is, talent is defined as a "natural aptitude or skill". You either have it or you don't. That makes things even worse: not only am I saying that the designer's levels are not good, but that he himself is permanently unable unable to make good levels. That's really terrible.
Right now, I feel like I'm trying to justify my post, by using poor excuses like "I was in a hurry" or "I didn't check the dictionary". These aren't any excuses. It is a really nasty post, and I can understand why Josh "kind of lost respect for [me] after saying that".
I don't know what I can do. Say that I regret making that post? I do regret it, but it doesn't change anything. Edit the post? That would be pointless, it has been quoted, and it would remain in members' brains anyway. Resign from the community? That never solves anything. Modify my vote? Yeah, it was kinda harsh, but that has nothing to do with the post. Make sure this doesn't happen in future reviews? Good idea, if there are future reviews, but it's too late, it has already been done.
I'm sorry. But in the end, these are just words. I made a mistake, and these 530 words cannot change that. I must face the consequences.
