Fair enough. Lawrence hits my bad reviewer buttons because on stories he doesn't like, he often tells people the endings. I rechecked a bunch of his reviews as he consistently does it.

He's welcome to call my work shit, that's fine, but telling people the ending, and/or major plot and character points along the way - that's a no-no. I think that's what got me making fun of it - I couldn't complain about the bad review without people taking it as a complaint just because I was given a bad review. So I did what I usually do in those situations - went silly.

For me, commenting about reviews is fine, in certain contexts. People usually only link to their positive reviews, and then talk about how they are happy with them. I tend to think commenting is ok, so long as you don't start savaging the reviewers for their opinion.

I certainly made a point with one positive review, calling a piece a highlight, to state that I didn't think it rated so highly, but thank you.

SO the solidification of your opinion, was it just the people who have whinged about negative reviews and attacked the critics in recent months, or was there other shifts and changes that drw you to it?