User blog comment:Pihou/How to describe Wiki/Community Attitude?/@comment-53539-20140615104317/@comment-53539-20140615201834

I've been to university so I'd like to think I know the difference between insult and critique since I was taught the many sides and layers of criticizing work. But thats not really the point I was trying to make, I was trying to make a point that 6 people faced with the same words reacted differently to each other.

I find a lot of it depends on the age and maturity of the person, with younger folks (those around the 12/13 mark, basically early teen) being more likely to be rude then older (mid-late teens at earliest). This isn't always the case, I know from my time at Dragon cave forums, the artists there, one or two of them act immature and unprofessional when faced with harsh criticism. Their reaction to criticism seems to be to just take away what people want and force silence upon their community. I don't like this and why I left there, because arse-kissing is not something I see as very professional, and since their forum and site is open to the general public, something I found shockingly unprofessional.

Not I'm the best artist in the world, but the only comment I ever hid on DA was a comment which was spam. And my view on if someone doesn't like it is to redo the work and see if I can improve it based on what criticism was raised. Sure, I get down when someone makes a negative comment, but I know at my stage that you can't please everyone. I don't want to please everyone either... My view is "If everyone does appear to be happy with what you've done- something is wrong". Basically, someone isn't telling you things you need to know.

But that is just my own artwork. I always treat art differently to everything else I do... Even in comparison to wiki editing.

Still, regardless, this is another point, reacting one way on one subject as oppose to another... I don't like Miku's voice so I'm more likely to burst someone's bubble, then I am with another. So when commenting on certain Vocaloids I have to watch I don't go too negative. I imagine, others' here are faced with the same situation right? For a random comment, this might seem like a horde of barbarians got unleashed on them if too many people do it. So lately, I've been sticking to the rule that if a X amount of posts reacting are negative to a OP, I don't reply at all if I don't have something positive to say. :-/