Essentially, someone worked fairly long at making some sort of video art; I couldn’t tell you what was in it cause the art was an epileptic’s strobing nightmare and it nearly knocked me out. I marked the art with an epilepsy warning, then they figured we hated them, as a community, and they left.

So they came back a few days later with a long and winding post which spoke a bit of self-reflection and needing to make amends, and I wrote a reply saying that I’m glad they’re back and I’m glad the acknowledged epileptic people. In the same comments they mentioned they showered me with praise and compliments but that I didn’t do the same in return. I know full well compliments and praise aren’t transactional, they aren’t turns in a board game, and I told her that’s how I roll, but that I prefer sincere gratitude instead, and I hand that out all the time.

And then I was met with this and when I told her not to say the C-word, she deletes her account.

I could have handled this a lot better, but now there’s a member of our community with less support.