Everyone is entitle to an opinion, good or bad.  There are also "trolls".  People who put negative comments just for the purpose of causing drama. 

Just let the blogger deal with them professionally and move on.  Anything else just makes it unpleasant for the rest of the readers. 

I haven't had one yet. I have only been blogging for a short amount of time and unless they are attacking my core beliefs I would completely ignore it. Just FYI I am very non-confrontational... well not if you ask the hub :)

I haven't had one yet. But I have felt 'criticism' in some comments. If I feel it is warranted I try to learn from it, if I think it is just another person's opinion or preference I let it slide.

I have left a heartfelt comment once on another person's blog that got an ugly comment that I felt was totally undeserved.

The very first comment to my blog was a negative one. I didn't approve it, but I keep it as a way to remind myself that some people are just haters.

Really, I have one post and some fool thinks they'll tell me how lame my site is. It just proved to me that some people can't be nice or be happy that someone else is living their dream.

I try to be of the belief that if you can't say something nice, don't say it at all.  Of course, that doesn't mean avoiding constructive criticism sharing your opinion. But these can be done in a productive and meaningful way.

But, in the end, it's my blog and I can hit 'delete' if I want to!

I've not had one so far, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time!

I've stuck of for bloggy friends before when this has happened though.

If I read a blog post that I don't agree with or have negative feeling about I just leave no comment. If you've not got something nice to say - don't say anything at all!

I had gone through and done a "spring cleaning" of my friends list on facebook a couple months ago because my sister in law posted a status update on her page being terribly mean to me.  Everyone was following the drama and there were so many people that didn't talk to me when I talked to them and it was all high school people acting like we were 16 again being cliquish.  So, I deleted a bunch of people.  I told myself, if I haven't spoken to you since Christmas, I'm probably not going to talk to you now. 

After I deleted those people, I started getting nasty facebook messages about how rude I was and how I was hurting people for doing that.  These were people that would never have noticed I deleted them except they were trying to follow the fight between me and my in-laws.  After they couldn't reach me on my facebook, they started attacking my blog. 

One person just left a comment saying, mother f-er and then another one attacked my parenting style.  One of the comments talked about what a bad writer I was because I made one spelling error in the post.  I had to delete some and add comment moderation because I have older women from my church that read my blog and I don't appreciate blatant swearing and plain meanness.  It's not what my blog is about. 

What I've learned is that no matter what you do, how you try, or the words you muster up...people will always find what they WANT in you. You may have the best intentions, and someone will always be ready to turn it around somehow. There will always be opinions and  comments, but THANK GOD drama can be controlled. You can always press "Delete", "Block", hang up, ignore, etc and build your wall against criticism, hurt, and DRAMA. I think once you realize you can't please everyone, and you work only on those that truly matter...life is just that much better and happier. Truthfully, if someone is going out of their way to read your blog, to follow you in your life, to steal your happiness (basically if you have unwanted company living your life with you) then they are the ones with the problem, and no life. As a sane person (think about it), what do you do? You find blogs you enjoy and you read them, you make friends and you keep them, you let go of the negative and focus on the positive...So, what does it say about someone who is doing the opposite? And making you the pinnacle of their bane existence? That they lack what you have.

Enjoy blogging ladies, we are doing it for us, not for them.

Depends on the comment - if it's coherent then I may respond in the comments or with a post if it concerns me enough.  If it's psychobabble (it's amazing how many anti-feminists are out there and like to just type profanity over and over!) I delete it... if I see a comment on another blog that I disagree with I'll say so, but I'm not going to get into a schoolyard screaming match online!

Example of post: Ignorant Men Holding Hands and Hating Feminists

I haven't had anything negative on my blog at this point.  I'm not sure how i would handle it.  If I thought it was valid and not just someone being a troll, I'd consider letting it stand.

Insofar as someone else being attacked, that would depend on what the friend wanted done.  Does she want stuck up for?  Or to let it die on the vine?

I consider the source and move on clicking delete, delete, delete.

If it is someone I "know", I try to step in their shoes and acknowledge the validity of their statement.

If it happens to a bloggy friend, I offer my support privately and ask them how they are going to deal with it. If they want some "back up", I am more than happy to jump into it.