I want to add to the whole passive-aggressive thing, though: if A posts such a rant, and B replies saying right out that they know that's a description of their journal, so ???, A ought not to reply back berating B for "thinking it's all about THEM!" A ought to cop to their actions, too. And either say "No, B, I didn't mean you" (which I would believe, no matter how stupid such a belief would be), or say, "Yeah, and if you don't get more interesting you're GONE". The first response seems to me both passive-aggressive and downright nasty.
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I want to add to the whole passive-aggressive thing, though: if A posts such a rant, and B replies saying right out that they know that's a description of their journal, so ???, A ought not to reply back berating B for "thinking it's all about THEM!" A ought to cop to their actions, too. And either say "No, B, I didn't mean you" (which I would believe, no matter how stupid such a belief would be), or say, "Yeah, and if you don't get more interesting you're GONE". The first response seems to me both passive-aggressive and downright nasty.