More Complaints Than Compliments

Recently a new contributor asked me to forward the feedback we received to his piece.

So I sent him the letters that came in. Unfortunately, the responses weren’t what he was hoping for.

“Thank you for sending,” he wrote back. “Did you not receive one positive one? It’s interesting — I personally received much positive feedback from many people, but it seems the letters the magazine received all disagreed with my piece.”

Then he asked: “Do you find that people are more inclined to write with gripes or “tainehs” than with compliments and accolades?”