Hmm …

… Los Angeles Review of Books - The Critic’s Credentials: On 'Rotten Reviews Redux'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… it’s not necessarily the foppish rage that so incenses Henderson — it’s the anonymity: “Anonymous online critics ambush unprotected writers in bursts of verbal automatic rifle fire.” We now live, according to Henderson, “in an online Wild West.” The image is apt, whether or not your business is literature. “All civility gone. Empathy, balance, decency, knowledge, out the window. Everybody a blogger. Everybody an instant critic.”

That’s a pretty accurate description of the online culture of masked assassins.

Well, why take anonymous reviews seriously anyway? There have always been good reviewers and bad reviewers, and there always will be. No need to get out of shape over it.