How do you deal with hate comments?

[Doubtcent]

Either ignore them or report them.

However if someone does give a genuine opinion as to why they might dislike your comic, give it an honest read and wonder why they might not have enjoyed it.

Sadly, and I mean SADLY, I have yet to receive any hate. But I know it's coming. I know it's on the horizon.

[kotaotan]

I haven't gotten much hate in the last few years since I ended up on my current hosts, but I have a policy of letting them stand unless it's a personal attack on me or my readers. I'm usually more than happy to have someone find and hate my stuff. It means the number or people seeing my stuff is increasing.

[JigokuNeko]

I dunno, to me it's really funny, imagining some poor sod getting his knickers in such a bunch over a free comic that he absolutely has to write me some elementary kid comment. Life advice: trolls really do implode if you laugh at them. That said, I very rarely get outright hate. I do get some passive-aggressive stuff occasionally and the once I had a dude complain about the website design (of a hosting site!!!) quite vocally. He seemed to be truly offended by having to scroll down to read each page because it did not fit all in one piece. I kept that because it was hella amusing. The only things I delete are slurs against people groups and stuff.

[infectedbloodcomics]

Why sadly? Would you actually welcome that?

[AnnaLandin]

@infectedbloodcomics Getting hate does mean you're getting enough attention that someone is bothering to hate you, so, uh, I guess it's a sign you've made it somewhere? Kind of like an internet scout-badge.

I personally can do without hate; it's just a big drain on energy, even if you manage to shrug it off.

[infectedbloodcomics]

But if it's a one-time- hate comment, that's not much of an attention. Anyway, I get it. I can also do without hate.

[Doubtcent]

In some ways, yes. Lets say you make something, and everyone on the planet likes it or is indifferent to it.

Would you ever have the desire to improve? Maybe, maybe not.

But lets say there is someone out there that doesn't like your content because of "reasons". This could drive you to research what they might like or what other people enjoy, which then might develop into desire to improve your work, which can allow you to reach greater heights.

I may not have hate, but I don't have a ton of followers. That is my motivation to keep moving forward. So if haters do start to trickle in, I welcome them, since their negativity can be like hammers to steel, which can eventually slice through them once forged into something greater.

[Aspie_Gamer]

Over the years, I've found that its just better to ignore haters rather than engage in endless shit flinging with them even if you are in the right about something. Taking screen caps of some of the things they say (particularly anything that would out them as a hypocrite) should also be considered in the event they become a dedicated troll and keep showing up on every one of your videos/threads/posts just to harass you.

[infectedbloodcomics]

But you see, hate is by definition something negative and destructing. I think of it more as a blatant aggression toward the author for no reason other than being jerks, than as being anything constructive expressed in a negative manner. Perhaps we're just talking about different interpretations of the word "hate".

At any rate, I think I see your point, now. I guess you welcome any and all comments, as long as you can use them to your personal growth and to the improvement of your art and comics. Correct? If so, great. That's not me I deal with hate constantly (admittedly, not around my comics, so far, except for that one incident I mentioned above), so the less, the better.

[jessiepolfliet]

I think I have gotten lucky that I only received constructive feedback, though some people said I should stop drawing anime. But those people think all cartoons are animes so anyway. If it isn't constructive than I should ignore it. Even so who cares if your character has two different color eyes. I have one of those characters too, and so what? It can be something that makes your character recognizable.

[Menbung]

David Bowei must be the king of trope then ! (will someone get this one, if not this is goin' to be a pretty random comment)

"And when I get excited
My little China Girl says
Oh baby just you shut your mouth
She says... sh-sh-shhh"

[blop]

He just said something like "different coloured eyes trope trope tropes" and you call it "hate"?
I think you calling that person a poor bastard is more violent that his comment.
It sounds more like a bad joke that really "hate", it may be a bit childish but it's not really mean.
If someone say "This is shit ! you should kill yourself or stop drawing forever!" this would be a hate comment for sure (I see tones of comment like that on youtube every day).
I think you should learn to be cooler with comment that are not compliments, even if it's not said in a very nice way, as long as they don't insult you.

[Marvin]

The first thing I thought when I saw the eyes of your character was "Ahah, does he see in 3D ?" and I almost posted a comment under the episode, because yeah, I thought it was funny for you to choose these colors and it wouldn't have been judgmental or hateful in ANY way.
But I came back to the forum thread first and boy I'm glad I didn't post anything =D

Serious question though : if I had posted this comment, would you have considered it mean or hateful ?

As @blop said, aren't you being a bit hasty ? If you make your work public, you have to be ready to accept criticism and friendly banter and I think the best way to deal with it is to answer in a friendly way.
You could even win that person over =)
If you delete every negative comments, it feels like you're not comfortable with your work and take it too personnally... Your readers might feel like they have to walk on eggshells with you and you might not get any honest feedback... So be the better man and don't delete them ! (except if they're the "go die !" kind)
Who knows, your readers might even defend your work for you !

[purrlpankras]

Well I am a bit blunt/harsh anyway, poor bastard where I come is slang for sad kid or something like that.
In the end I just deleted it anyway, either way I don't want people calling it trope, because I don't think you can call it that after 7 pages?
well idk I deleted it.

[purrlpankras]

Uh 3D eyes, I probably would of made a joke back I guess?

[Marvin]

Phew ! Good then ! =D
Hard to tell how people mean what they say when it's just text, you could have felt like I was making fun of you or something =)

[blop]

Well it's your comic so you can delete any comment if you feel like it but I think it's not really a good attitude to delete a comment just because you don't like the critic, as long as it's not insulting. And in my opinion you shouldn't calling that type of comments "hate comments".

(And by the way, a trope is not a bad thing, it's good for a story to have some, it's having too many that is a bad thing. Actually many of my favorite comics/series have famous tropes.)

[DynamoToon]

A good way to deal with hate comments is to realize that most of those haters have nothing better to do with their lives than to complain on internet message boards. But seriously, you cant really delete hate comments from existence, its just not possible. If those comments get ya down, just remember: If you dont have any haters, it means youre not doing anything cool. Btw, your work is pretty cool. I like it alot.

[lilylily09]

I appreciated for comment that explain why they like my comic and why they dislike. The only comment that I don't want to see is something like this "cool! I like your comic" or "this comic is suck!". I feel that it non-seance comment, I prefer something like "I like your comic. The background design is creative and each character design doesn't have similar face...." or "your comic is suck. each panel that the character appear he/she always has different face/appearance, difficult to recognize....". This type of comment would make me understand why I have low subscribe, so I can improve the quality of my comic.

[pixelsnplay]

Seeing the responses and comments makes me wonder how people feel in general about comments? Personally if someone hasn't stated they are looking for critiques I just heart it and move on or add a comment about something I like. When people are looking for critiques I tend to ask questions that hopefully lead the person to see the same thing/problems I see- like 'is character A suppose to be behind or in front of character B?' Or 'Is this character the main character X or a new character?' Depending on their response I might go into detail or leave it alone.
I know people can be sensitive about their art and it's easy to discourage yourself without others 'helping' ^^'

I didn't see the comment in question but are different colored eyes that common that they have become a thing? And if so- does it really matter? There are still so many interesting ways that the story could develop.
But hey that's just my .02$