I guess I am of the "If you don't like it, that's what your Back button is for" school of thought.
An example I really noticed was a comment left on an HD Hols piece. "I would have liked a little less Luna, but your Draco was particularly lovely." The commenter was not the recipient. I guess I do read comments like this as "I'm entitled to something other than this". Perhaps that's wrong of me, but I thought the comment was really rude. Perhaps that does say something about me as the person making an assumption, although I'm not sure what it says.
In your example of criticism vs bitchery that line's very clear, but a lot of people who comment less than 100% positively walk the passive aggressive line a little, and the line between criticsm and bitchery can become blurred. (I was going to give another example but the original "Look at this comment I just got!" post is f-locked.)
I think there is a difference between feedback and genuinely constructive criticism. And a lot of comments that are left under the guise for 'con-crit' tend to translate as "What you wrote is not what I wanted to read", which... that's what the Back button's for.
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An example I really noticed was a comment left on an HD Hols piece. "I would have liked a little less Luna, but your Draco was particularly lovely." The commenter was not the recipient. I guess I do read comments like this as "I'm entitled to something other than this". Perhaps that's wrong of me, but I thought the comment was really rude. Perhaps that does say something about me as the person making an assumption, although I'm not sure what it says.
In your example of criticism vs bitchery that line's very clear, but a lot of people who comment less than 100% positively walk the passive aggressive line a little, and the line between criticsm and bitchery can become blurred. (I was going to give another example but the original "Look at this comment I just got!" post is f-locked.)
I think there is a difference between feedback and genuinely constructive criticism. And a lot of comments that are left under the guise for 'con-crit' tend to translate as "What you wrote is not what I wanted to read", which... that's what the Back button's for.