If people bash me, I don't want to know.
That's probably the right attitude.

I wonder if I link an entry if that'll send an alert to the writer.
Not sure… But you can still link and name the writer to be sure they'll be alerted?
Or maybe I misunderstood you and the entire point is that the person won't get the alert. XD oh brain, why don't you wake up… Anyway, I don't think only a link will do the alerting, that doesn't sound too logical to me but I'm not the most knowledgeable person about LJ there is, so.