I remember clearly that I already had understood this when I was 12 and corrected some of the teacher's assertions (such as people not having weight in the Moon because of lack of air). Classmates used to laud my soft and well-mannered way to tell the teacher he was wrong, without saying it explicitely, and leaving him a graceful retreat path.
So either I'm not a proper geek/nerd or the generalization is a bit overextending.
My impression is that most persons do understand that vocal negative critics are a fact of life (and specially online forums) so don't worry too much about them. They're just too visible, but the same happens with ads.
Once I've cleared the constructive comment stuff, I feel the urge to write some snarky comment on how the author's understanding of HTML tags made his cursive text appear without spaces around :-)
I had the same experience with teachers, and there's definitely two sides to the failure to communicate, and there's a cultural aspect as well as a "skills" aspect. I was taught that every reasonable person is open to correction and should strive to appreciate it. I got on fine with teachers who felt the same way. Teachers who had weird ideas about authority and tried to pretend omniscience, I didn't get along with, but I didn't really care. At least not until I started worrying about my GPA, and then I just kept my mouth shut and let them make fools of themselves and mark the occasional right answer wrong. As I saw it and had been taught, if a person didn't respond well to disagreement, then I didn't owe them the favor. From a purely practical perspective, I would have been better off using them as an opportunity to practice tact, but sometimes practicality conflicts with self-respect.
So either I'm not a proper geek/nerd or the generalization is a bit overextending.
My impression is that most persons do understand that vocal negative critics are a fact of life (and specially online forums) so don't worry too much about them. They're just too visible, but the same happens with ads.
Once I've cleared the constructive comment stuff, I feel the urge to write some snarky comment on how the author's understanding of HTML tags made his cursive text appear without spaces around :-)