Authors are public figures, however, and on top of that, the China Times blogs saw a lot of traffic. That meant that it wasn't long before Ko started receiving vitriolic comments attacking her opinion pieces. When she'd mention how tired she was from working, she'd get savaged for being an "out-of-touch" academic who didn't know real hardship.
但作家畢竟是公眾人物，加上中時部落格的讀者很多，柯裕棻在經營一陣子網誌後，逐漸發現自己有意見觀點的評論文章，三不五時會引發非理性的謾罵回應，有時候工作太累發個小牢騷，還會被冷嘲熱諷說是「大學教授不知民間疾苦！」