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by tomcam 883 days ago
Painful suggestion: I reframe the savagery as a free consultation by folks with poor people skills. Often one or two of the reviews gives you actionable results. I view this exercise as something you akin to learning how to be a sales person: a very unpleasant experience at first but eventually you develop a new muscle/superpower. Being coachable can take you pretty far.
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I was moreso thinking of review comments like "this is the worst code I've ever seen", "give up now", "ignoring the hundreds of errors, this looks fine", Dreamworks villain laughter, etc.
Ugh. I feel you, which is why I unfortunately had to hedge with l "Often one or two of the reviews...". I think the best way to handle that is to understand you'll have to separate wheat from chaff, period, that's just the price. The good news is, once you learn to ignore comments like that you don't really need to worry about it ever again.

Sucks to go through that learning period.