Managing negative Kickstarter Comments & Backers

Sadly as a Kickstarter Creator you will experience negativity at some point in your campaign.

Even the best among us will always encounter disgruntled people no matter how well we run a campaign – the key is how you react, respond and resolve…

It has famously been written:

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.
John Lydgate

To rephrase for the modern world..

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Urban Dictionary

If you are considering taking on a Kickstarter Campaign then you have to face the reality that it is a meeting place of passionate creative people. As such offense can easily be taken if a project that is so special to you is considered in a negative light.

Kickstarter acknowledges this directly when it reminds those leaving comments that there’s a human behind the project…

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