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Dear beny,

I looked at bman207's comments and none of them seemed over the top.  You can always delete a comment left on your projects that you don't like.

In general, I think the three best ways to deal with this situation are:

1. Try to engage in a healthy discussion. For example if someone says something like "your project is bad", you could ask "why?". They might explain why and then you can start exchanging ideas without insults. A lot of times people have different ideas and it's useful to have a discussion but without insults. A lot times this discussion are very useful and help you learn how other people think even if they think differently from you.

2. Sometimes responding positively to a negative comment works like a miracle. You could post nice comments to their projects and I am sure that person will, at the very least,  be confused or they might change their behavior and become your friend! I have seen this happening on the website already.

3. If the other person doesn't seem to engage in healthy discussion and being nice to them seems not to work: just ignoring them! I think that people that have a difficult life at home or at school try to express their anger towards others by saying mean things. They are mostly trying to get attention. Ignoring them might make them realize how negativity doesn't take them anywhere but positive comments are.

We are here to help you and everyone else to deal with difficult members so please contact us directly to  http://scratch.mit.edu/contact/us if you're still having trouble with other users. However, I would suggest trying those 3 things. They are very useful skills online and even on real life.

Not always you will have a teacher, parent or website administrator to protect you and it's useful to start thinking about this things since they will always come up in your future life.

Thanks and Scratch on!