Hi, I've spent the night thinking about that.

My standards are standards that I learnt from society, from my peers, from my schooling, etc. That said, I was privately educated, and most people do not live according to my standards.

This puzzled me for most of my life. For instance, I realized when I was 45 that people lied. I did not realize that people lied because I was taught over and over again that one wasn't supposed to lie, that it was wrong.

I also have standards when it comes to publication. As I have been published since I was about 10 years old (the tearsheets are in my portfolio which is on the web), I have been writing for a long time. But more than that, I worked as an editor for two publishing houses in London. I have a certain standard when it comes to the printed and published word. When I comment on that, it is in reference to those standards. They are the standards in the publishing industry. I have also worked in various capacities in the industry, so I know it pretty well. So, no, I wasn't arrogant when I commented.

What I was was tactless, and I'm still finding difficulty in associating blogs and people who aren't professional writers being given the same platform as people who are. I need to rethink that.

I'm also coming to the growing realisation that people use these platforms as a way of expressing their opinions, and that they genuinely don't realize that there is a pretty rigorous standard when it comes to publication. Whereas to me, that's obvious, that's because of my particular life trajectory and abilities and education.

So while it is very tempting to take a red pen and put a line right through some very bad prose, I am going to attempt to resist the temptation to comment on other people's writing articles.

I apologize for any hurt I caused.