The reason neither of those quotes applies to the BYOND community is people assume any remarks other than "That's awesome!" or "Good job!" are personal attacks being made against them. Anything that's not sugar-coated to the point of being a lie is deemed "non-constructive" here.

Furthermore, if words on a screen some random person ( or in this case, "entitled little shits" as the guy put it ) typed managed to upset you to the point of whining about it on your Facebook account to your friends and family, the internet is probably not the place for you. It's actually sad because when you think about it, the internet is the one place where people have the freedom to be as honest as humanly possible without having a foot shoved up their ass just because they weren't super polite about it or "politically correct", yet people still want to turn the internet into a place where you have to take your true thoughts and feelings, change them around almost completely to avoid "offending" someone, and THEN "speak your mind", which actually isn't speaking your mind at all since you revamped your speech to be more inline with what society or any given community expects you to say. So then the discussion is just filled with watered-down opinions and hypocrisy all because there's some people who just can't deal with being told the truth or reading a viewpoint that differs from their own and they expect world to cater to their inability to do so.

And then "well everyone is not thick-skinned" is the common cop out. That's pure bullshit. No one is born into this world knowing how to deal with being told they're wrong, it's something you learn through a process called maturation. Grow up. World's not going to change into sunshine and rainbows just because you're too sensitive to cope with reality.

Ironically when people call your work trash (could be why you haven't showcased much of it either) you'd flip positions really quick I bet. ^_^
Of course you'd probably never showcase your work--you've went around stirring the sh*t pot way too much. You probably have a gang of people waiting to jump down your throat. lol

No, I often know where my stuff needs to be fixed. Usually if someone tells me X needs to be fixed I agree. But relating to the second part of your thread: If you sit around waiting for someone who criticized your work to publish something just so you can badmouth it you're doing it wrong. The role of critics is to improve the medium, not to use their position as critics to exact revenge upon those that have hurt their feelings.

Try again kid. Learn what it means to be a critic over what it means to be a spiteful person.

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