Which is fair... but I once did an entire article ridiculing another author and got no blowback whatsoever.

https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/welcome-to-the-haque-away-2a2598b8a8c3

And failing that, I once named an author and did a blow by blow account of our entire disagreement. That story does remarkably well... there was something different about this particular story, or there's been a move on the line of acceptability.

https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/whack-a-woke-james-finn-special-86d6cb79aa11