Little Things You Hate

[JaddziaDax]

You know what I really dislike? The fact that most people's definition of constructive criticism is "baseless praise with maybe one comment about something being slightly below perfection."

Wait... strike that last part. Some folks become infuriated whenever you say even one remotely negative thing.

Actually for constructive criticism you are supposed to point out both the good and the bad things. Not just the good things and not just the bad things. The point of it being constructive is so that they know what they did both right and wrong. It should be balanced.

[Haar119]

You know what I really dislike? The fact that most people's definition of constructive criticism is "baseless praise with maybe one comment about something being slightly below perfection."

Wait... strike that last part. Some folks become infuriated whenever you say even one remotely negative thing.

Actually for constructive criticism you are supposed to point out both the good and the bad things. Not just the good things and not just the bad things. The point of it being constructive is so that they know what they did both right and wrong. It should be balanced.

That's what I also believe. The issue here is that a fair amount of people I've come into contact with get pretty angry if even one or two bad things are coupled in with the good things I list about a video, song, drawing, et cetera.

[JaddziaDax]

Unfortunately, most "artists" are like that. But the best advice with dealing with someone like that I have, is to just ignore them because arguing about it is a waste of energy. If they get it they get it, then yay! If they don't then, move on. Just not worth the time. Still I know that feel.

[dj_ultima_the_great]

You know what I really dislike? The fact that most people's definition of constructive criticism is "baseless praise with maybe one comment about something being slightly below perfection."

Wait... strike that last part. Some folks become infuriated whenever you say even one remotely negative thing.

Actually for constructive criticism you are supposed to point out both the good and the bad things. Not just the good things and not just the bad things. The point of it being constructive is so that they know what they did both right and wrong. It should be balanced.

That's what I also believe. The issue here is that a fair amount of people I've come into contact with get pretty angry if even one or two bad things are coupled in with the good things I list about a video, song, drawing, et cetera.

True. I deal with that by simply not commenting on certain user's videos once they've proven that they can't take it. A few years back, there were a certain set of sisters (who shall remain nameless) that always asked for feedback, but if you made any suggestions for improvement, they always gave the exact same response, every single time: "Well, I liked it that way."

Of course you did, or you wouldn't have done it that way, moron.

I didn't care one way or the other if they took my suggestions, but they would respond that way to every single person who commented. Why even bother asking for critique? So I just started ignoring users who did that consistently. I would still watch their videos if I liked their work, naturally, but there was no point in commenting if it was just going to go in one ear and out the other.

So just do what I do. If you like their stuff, keep it. If you don't, delete the fucker and move on.

EDIT: and Jaddz beat me to that last point.

[Kevmaster]

I hate when people give less than 10 in sound category when leaving opinions when actually it was ripped in .wav from CD and encoded in 367 kBit/s AAC. That category should just be removed considering 99% don't know how to properly rate that category

[Pwolf]

Constructive criticism doesn't have to be both positive and negative. By definition, it actually ends up pointing out the negative more than the positive. The definition of constructive criticism is criticism that is intended to improve or help what is being criticized. If the criticism doesn't meet that definition then it isn't constructive to begin with, it's just regular ol' criticism.

[JaddziaDax]

if there is no positive then it just comes off as criticism and lacks the constructive parts. Weather intended to help or not.

[Pwolf]

I'm just telling you what the definition is. If you choose to see it as not being constructive, when it is by definition, that's your problem

[JaddziaDax]

And I'm telling you what I was taught that the definition is. So you can see it however you want to see it, and I suppose we can agree to disagree

[Pwolf]

What if there is nothing positive to say? Simply pointing out something positive which has nothing to do with the the things you're offering advise on is redundant and pointless. From an AMV standpoint, it helps no one to provide constructive criticism for a video that you think is rather awful all around then say "Oh, but the sound quality was great!" It doesn't serve any constructive purpose to point that out just because, under your definition, in order to provide constructive criticism, you must say something positive about what is being criticized. Constructive criticism in of itself is meant to be positive already.