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Quiz: How not to respond.

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If an artist throws you, also an artist or apparent patron of the arts, a link, how should you respond?

a) Thanks for the link!

b) Thanks for the link...I appreciate it. There's an error in your post, though. Just thought I'd let you know. But thanks for the link!

c) I saw that you linked to my post. Thanks! I like your site.

d) Respond like "Scatt" did in the comments in this earlier post of mine.

I'm fairly unimpressed with this person, though I have decided to leave the post and link as is for the benefit of fellow artists and readers who may still be interested in the materials available. I don't generally delete or alter posts beyond an "update" notation out of a kind of preservation of the archives, or, at least, not appearing dishonest.

I'd recommend, in the future, that if you run a site and for some reason find the need to "reprimand" the person giving you a link, rethink that course of action. I'm not sure why a person sees a battle where there is none, nor why they chose to dump on another person's benign web site.

Scatt will no longer have comments published on this blog. And for any other readers or web site owners looking to nit-pick, please visit my other blog, in which I regularly rip new ones, quite well, for whoever would like it to be done.