Board Thread:Official Rules and Announcements/@comment-4869113-20150510130534/@comment-26116199-20150510133657

Chrono put it perfectly, the whole parent part. I guess when criticism is passed, some authors tend to feel that they are being attacked—that their very ideas (which they might have spent an eternity cooking up) are being looked down upon and unappreciated. This tends to be compounded at times when they feel that they've achieved something big with their works.

I guess the admins should always try to specify (especially when dealing with newer users) that they're merely highlighting their views on a piece and not brutally, publicly pointing out flaws in a certain idea. The person at the receiving end of the criticism should always feel like the critic is trying to genuinely help them expand positively on their works, instead of fucking their ideas over. Credit should be given where it's due, to soften the impact of those select few situations where certain articles are really...incorrigibly bad and unable to garner any praise whatsoever.