Authors of blogs and other posts that wonder why comments snark and worry about this take themselves much too serious.<p>Not everybody was born a writer and not everybody takes the whole blogging thing as serious as the bloggers themselves do.<p>If you put yourself up as a 'public figure' (which essentially every blogger seems to aspire to) then you're asking for getting some of the downsides that come with that as well.<p>Snark is nothing compared to what some of the really famous people have to go through in life.<p>Simple advice to those that blog or write for public consumption on the internet: grow a thick skin.<p>Learn how to read through the snark and get to the gems embedded in your comments and reply in measured tones to those who seek to raise their own profile at your expense.<p>Never ever let the snarkers pull you down to their level.
Comments complement original post by providing opposing opinions on the same topic.
Readers are usually interested to see if there are such opposing opinions, so it's useful to have such comments to be readily available.